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Doing anything with SOAP is a pain without a WSDL, which is the case with Zimbra. All of the Howtos I found about SOAP and ruby either required a WSDL or making several classes in a special, undocumented way to trick a SOAP::RPC::Driver instance into working. Both were unacceptable. After much hardship, I found an easier to read way to do SOAP without an WSDL in ruby, by building SOAP::Elements myself. Here is the code, documented to be easy to read, use, and extend.
# Incomplete library for interacting with Zimbra # # require 'zimbra' # # host = 'zimbra.tylerlesmann.com' # user = 'root' # passwd = 'hard_password' # creds = Zimbra.authenticate(host, user, passwd) # usercreds = Zimbra.masquerade(host, creds.authToken, 'tlesmann') # Zimbra.createappointment(host, usercreds.authToken, # Time.local(2009, 6, 26), 'Make a blog post', 'Maybe some Java', [ # '/home/tlesmann/Documents/java.png', # '/home/tlesmann/Documents/tutorial.pdf', # ]) require 'net/http' require 'net/https' require 'soap/element' require 'soap/rpc/driver' require 'soap/processor' require 'soap/streamHandler' require 'soap/property' require 'zimbra/multipart' module Zimbra # Builds and sends AuthRequest to a provided Zimbra host. # # Returns a SOAP::Mapping instance, with an authToken attribute def self.authenticate(host, name, password) header = SOAP::SOAPHeader.new body = SOAP::SOAPBody.new(element('AuthRequest', nil, { 'xmlns' => 'urn:zimbraAdmin', }, [ element('name', name), element('password', password), ] )) envelope = SOAP::SOAPEnvelope.new(header, body) return send_soap(envelope, host) end # Builds and sends CreateAppointmentRequest to a provided Zimbra host. The # attachments argument expects a list of filename strings. # # Returns a SOAP::Mapping instance def self.createappointment(host, authToken, start, subject, description='', attachments=[]) header = SOAP::SOAPHeader.new context = element('context', nil, {'xmlns' => 'urn:zimbra'}, [ element('authToken', authToken) ]) header.add('context', context) aids = [] for attachment in attachments aids << upload_attachment(host, authToken, attachment) end if aids.empty? attach = nil else attach = element('attach', nil, { 'aid' => aids.join(",") }) end body = SOAP::SOAPBody.new(element('CreateAppointmentRequest', nil, { 'xmlns' => 'urn:zimbraMail' }, [ element('m', nil, {}, [ element('inv', nil, {}, [ element('comp', nil, { 'status' => 'CONF', 'allDay' => 1, 'fb' => 'F', 'name' => subject, 'noBlob' => 1, }, [ datetime('s', start), datetime('e', start), element('descHtml', description), element('alarm', nil, { 'action' => 'DISPLAY' }, [ element('trigger', nil, {}, [ element('rel', nil, { 'm' => 1 }) ]), element('desc', subject), ] ), ] ), ]), attach ]), ] )) envelope = SOAP::SOAPEnvelope.new(header, body) send_soap(envelope, host) end # builds SOAP::SOAPElement with tag name with a *d* attribute of the # provided ruby Time def self.datetime(name, time) return element(name, nil, {'d' => time.strftime("%Y%m%d")}) end # builds SOAP::SOAPElements the way SOAP::SOAPElement constructor _should_ # # element('AuthRequest', nil, # { # 'xmlns' => 'urn:zimbraAdmin', # }, # [ # element('name', 'whoa'), # element('password', 'man'), # ] # ) # # The returned SOAP::SOAPElement converted to XML would be: # # <AuthRequest xmlns="urn:zimbraAdmin"> # <name>whoa</name> # <password>man</password> # </AuthRequest> def self.element(name, value=nil, attrs={}, children=[]) element = SOAP::SOAPElement.new(name, value) element.extraattr.update(attrs) for child in children if child element.add(child) end end return element end # Builds and sends DelegateAuth Request to a provided Zimbra host. The # authToken must be that of an admin! The account arg is nothing fancy, just # the username of the user to spoof. # # Returns a SOAP::Mapping instance, with an authToken attribute def self.masquerade(host, authToken, account) header = SOAP::SOAPHeader.new context = element('context', nil, {'xmlns' => 'urn:zimbra'}, [ element('authToken', authToken) ]) header.add('context', context) body = SOAP::SOAPBody.new(element('DelegateAuthRequest', nil, { 'xmlns' => 'urn:zimbraAdmin' }, [ element('account', account, { 'by' => 'name', }) ] )) envelope = SOAP::SOAPEnvelope.new(header, body) return send_soap(envelope, host) end # Marshals SOAP::Envelopes and sends them to a given Zimbra host # # Returns response as a SOAP::Mapping instance def self.send_soap(envelope, host) url = 'https://' + host + ':7071/service/admin/soap/' stream = SOAP::HTTPStreamHandler.new(SOAP::Property.new) request_string = SOAP::Processor.marshal(envelope) puts request_string if $DEBUG request = SOAP::StreamHandler::ConnectionData.new(request_string) response_string = stream.send(url, request).receive_string puts response_string if $DEBUG env = SOAP::Processor.unmarshal(response_string) return SOAP::Mapping.soap2obj(env.body.root_node) end # Uploads file to given Zimbra host # # Returns a string containing the Zimbra attachment id. These attachments are # only accessible to the user that uploaded them. def self.upload_attachment(host, authToken, filename) params = Hash.new file = File.open(filename, "rb") params["attachment"] = file mp = Multipart::MultipartPost.new query, headers = mp.prepare_query(params) file.close headers['Cookie'] = 'ZM_AUTH_TOKEN=' + authToken url = URI.parse('https://' + host + '/service/upload') client = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port) client.use_ssl = true response = client.post(url.path + '?fmt=raw', query, headers) return response.body.split(',')[2].strip.slice(1..-2) end end
Note: I would have done this in python, if it were not needed for an existing rails application. ;)
