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

[gil.fernandes]

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

[gil.fernandes]

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:

<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>

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

/**
	 * 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;
	}

Regards,

Gil

[schemers]

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":

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

[gil.fernandes]

Thank you very much for your reply .

Regards,

Gil