How to create a new calendar using classes in package com.zimbra.cs.zclient

Hello,

I am just looking at the package com.zimbra.cs.zclient in the ZimbraServer 5.0 sources and was wondering, if there is a way to create a new calendar using any of the classes in this package.

Does anyone know how you can create a new calendar via SOAP and the zclient classes?

Best regards,

Gil

After analysing the communication between the client and the server, when I was creating a calendar, I found out that calendars are nothing else than folders with the "appointment" view in Zimbra. Here is the XML I captured during a create calendar request:

Code:

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<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
        <soap:Header>
                <context xmlns="urn:zimbra">
                        <userAgent name="ZimbraWebClient - FF2.0 (Win)" version="5.0.1_GA_1902.RHEL4"/>
                        <sessionId id="1165"/>
                        <account by="name">
                                admin@gil.zimbra
                        </account>
                        <format type="js"/>
                        <authToken>
0_9a2320ce76bd67ea7bc529916972c9aac481ff28_69643d33363a32373338626565612d613563622d346566362d396230332d3039643265363865666438623b6578703d31333a313230323438353634363733373b747970653d363a7a696d6272613b6d61696c686f73743d31353a3139322e3136382e302e35333a38303b
                        </authToken>
                </context>
        </soap:Header>
        <soap:Body>
                <CreateFolderRequest xmlns="urn:zimbraMail">
                        <folder l="1" name="test3" color="1" f="#" view="appointment"/>
                </CreateFolderRequest>
        </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

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So I have now created some code not using some other classes I found in the Zimbra distribution which creates successfully the calendar:

Code:

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/**
        * Creates calendar resource via SOAP.
        * @param name The name of the calendar.
        * @return The calendar identifier.
        * @throws ServiceException Thrown in case that the service does not work.
        * @throws IOException Thrown in case the communication with the server fails.
        * @throws LmcSoapClientException
        * @throws SoapParseException Thrown in case the SOAP request cannot be parsed.
        */
        public String createCalendar(String name)
                throws ServiceException, SoapParseException, LmcSoapClientException, IOException
        {
               
                LOG.info("==== CREATE CALENDAR ======");
                LmcCreateFolderRequest cfReq = new LmcCreateFolderRequest();
                cfReq.setSession(session);// this is LmcSession
                cfReq.setName(name);
                cfReq.setView(APPOINTMENT); // "appointment"
                cfReq.setParentID(this.getRootFolder().getFolderID()); // The root  folder identifier for the user that is logged in.
                LmcCreateFolderResponse cfResp = (LmcCreateFolderResponse) cfReq.invoke(serverURL);
                String newID = cfResp.getFolder().getFolderID();
                LOG.info("created new folder with ID " + newID);
                return newID;
        }

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Regards,

Gil

the best way to see how to use zclient APIs is look at ZMailboxUtil.java, which exercises just about all of them.

The call you are looking for is "createFolder":

Code:

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ZFolder calendar = mailbox.createFolder(
  ZFolder.ID_USER_ROOT,
 name,
 ZFolder.View.appointment, 
 ZFolder.Color.blue,
 ZFolder.Flag.checkedInUI,
null);

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Thank you very much for your reply :D.

Regards,

Gil