SOAP vs zmprov

[joho]

Why is the Zimbra SOAP interface so limited in comparison to what I can accomplish with zmprov? Fetching account information via a SOAP request gives me near to nothing while zmprov ga foo@domain.com gives me "everything" .. this "sort of" limits the usefulness of the SOAP interface to put it mildly.


-joho

[yutaka]

From my understanding, zmprov just sends SOAP requests to Zimbra server in the back end.
So basically you can do everything that you can do via zmprov by SOAP interface.

About the case "zmprov ga" you mentioned, it looks that zmprov sends SOAP "GetAccountRequest" as Admin user. So I guess you can get what you want by that.
If you can't, let us know what fields you want get and how you did try.
So maybe we could help you there

[Krishopper]

I have a script which gathers information from Zimbra using SOAP (GetAccountRequest method), and it gets everything that zmprov shows.

Are you authenticating as an admin user? Are you using the "applyCos" attribute when sending the request?

[joho]

mea culpa, thanks for responding though. I did indeed get the information I should have been getting