Performing zimbraAdmin SOAP calls with a zimlet

[grahamb]

Quick question: I'm working on a zimlet to let resource admins modify certain properties of their resource (name, desc, etc). Can I do urn:zimbraAdmin SOAP calls directly within JavaScript using AjxSoapDoc, etc., or do I need to do it externally with a JSP (or Perl, or...)?

[grahamb]

Bump. Anyone?

[grahamb]

Pretty slow around here lately...

I think I've determined that you can't include a perl .cgi in the zimlet .zip file and try to call it through an Ajax call -- it returned the full text of the script and didn't execute it. So, I'm guessing that I have two options:

1. Host the script somewhere else and access it through the proxy
2. Use a JSP

I'd like to avoid an external script, so: can I make admin SOAP calls (getting and setting account properties), and if so, does anyone have an example?

[ab5602]

Sure, this should get you going do a SOAP ADMIN call via JSP in a Zimlet on the server side:

String adminuser = "adminuser@zimbra.my.org";
String adminpassword = "mypassword";

// Standard SOAP URL on the local host
String soapurl = "https://127.0.0.1/service/soap/";
// Admin SOAP URL on the local host
String adminsoapurl = "https://127.0.0.1:7071/service/admin/soap/";

// Authenticate as the admin user
SoapProvisioning sp = new SoapProvisioning();
sp.soapSetURI(adminsoapurl);                      
sp.soapAdminAuthenticate(adminuser,adminpassword);       
SoapHttpTransport soapHttpTransport = new SoapHttpTransport(sp.soapGetURI());
soapHttpTransport.setAuthToken(sp.getAuthToken());

BTW: there are many examples of how to do the proxy call to an external service in the Zimlet code provided w/ Zimbra.