Delete an account via SOAP, how to find zimbraId ?

[fgb]

Hi,

I have been able to successfully add an account via SOAP and I am now looking to delete one. However, I need the zimbraId to do that and can't find how to get this id via SOAP. Is there any other way to find it than the command line?

Thanks

[Krishopper]

You can get it with GetAccountRequest

[Roger75]

When using Java API, how do I get zimbraId?

I also use SoapProvisioning, but can't find it...

In the code:
Account c = sp.getAccountByName("account@domain");

Inspecting "c" variable above in Eclipse IDE, I can see that there's an attribute called "mID" which seems to be zimbraId, but which method from Account class get this value? I tried getId() but it is blank, getUid() is from the email adress,... just don't know!

[justdave]

Originally Posted by Roger75

When using Java API, how do I get zimbraId?

The XML you would need to send is:

<GetAccountRequest attrs="zimbraId" xmlns="urn:zimbraAdmin">
  <account by="name">address@domain.tld</account>
</GetAccountRequest>

The trick here is passing the attrs= attribute to tell it you want the zimbraId, although from the response output, I'm guessing you probably get that back with every request anyway as the id= attribute of the account object in the response.

The above will give you back something like this:

<GetAccountResponse xmlns="urn:zimbraAdmin">
  <account id="53738983-181d-44a0-baec-26ddbc224d54" name="address@domain.tld">
    <a n="zimbraId">53738983-181d-44a0-baec-26ddbc224d54</a>
  </account>
</GetAccountResponse>

[Roger75]

Originally Posted by justdave

The XML you would need to send is:

<GetAccountRequest attrs="zimbraId" xmlns="urn:zimbraAdmin">
  <account by="name">address@domain.tld</account>
</GetAccountRequest>

The trick here is passing the attrs= attribute to tell it you want the zimbraId, although from the response output, I'm guessing you probably get that back with every request anyway as the id= attribute of the account object in the response.

The above will give you back something like this:

<GetAccountResponse xmlns="urn:zimbraAdmin">
  <account id="53738983-181d-44a0-baec-26ddbc224d54" name="address@domain.tld">
    <a n="zimbraId">53738983-181d-44a0-baec-26ddbc224d54</a>
  </account>
</GetAccountResponse>

But using the Java API, getId method from Account class is returning an empty value:

Account c = sp.getAccountByName("address@domain.tld");
String id=c.getId(); // this is returning a blank string!!

So I can't get zimbraId!
Is it a problem from SoapProvisioning API?
What's the other way to send the XML you showed above using Java?

[justdave]

I haven't ever done it from Java so hopefully someone else can step in and help here. I've always done it from Perl, or using the zmsoap commandline tool.

[Roger75]

Originally Posted by justdave

I haven't ever done it from Java so hopefully someone else can step in and help here. I've always done it from Perl, or using the zmsoap commandline tool.

Please, how do you send the xml request using perl? Could you show the command line?