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Example of a normal new mail which appends user's VCard and requests a read receipt from receiver:
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Revision as of 10:48, 23 May 2007

Introduction

This document defines the Open-Xchange HTTP API which is used by the new AJAX GUI. The first chapter describes general definitions and conventions which apply to all server modules. All other chapters describe individual server modules.

Low level protocol

The client accesses the server though HTTP GET, POST and PUT requests. The HTTP API is accessible at URIs starting with /ajax. Each server module has a unique name and its own sub-namespace with that name below /ajax, e. g. all access to the module "tasks" is via URIs starting with /ajax/tasks.

Text encoding is always UTF-8. Data is sent from the server to the client as text/javascript and interpreted by the client to obtain an ECMAScript object. The HTTP API uses only a small subset of the ECMAScript syntax. This subset is roughly described by the following BNF: 

Value   ::= "null" | Boolean | Number | String | Array | Object
Boolean ::= "true" | "false"
Number  ::= see NumericLiteral in ECMA 262 3rd edition
String  ::= \"([^"\n\\]|\\["\n\\])*\"
Array   ::= "[]" | "[" Value ("," Value)* "]"
Object  ::= "{}" | "{" Name ":" Value ("," Name ":" Value)* "}"
Name    ::= [A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f_]*

Numbers are the standard signed integer and floating point numbers. Strings can contain any character, except double quotes, newlines and backslashes, which must be escaped by a backslash. Control characters in strings (other than newline) are not supported. Whitespace is allowed between any two tokens. See JSON and ECMA 262, 3rd edition for the formal definition.

The response body consists of an object, which contains up to four fields as described in Response body. The field data contains the actual payload which is described in following chapters. The fields timestamp, error and error_params are present when data objects are returned, if an error occurred and if the error message contains conversion specifiers, respectively. Following sections describe the contents of these fields in more detail.

Response body
Name Type Value
data Value Payload of the response.
timestamp Timestamp Current timestamp on the server.
error String English error message. Present in case of errors.
error_params Array Replacement parameters for the error message.
error_id String Unique error identifier to help finding this error instance in the server logs.
code String Error code consisting of a three-letter category and a four-digit message number, separated by a dash.
category Number Category to which the error message belongs:
1 An error resulting from wrong or missing input from front-end (e.g. mandatory field missing).
2 An error strictly related to user configuration which denies requested operation.
3 An error related to insufficient permission settings.
4 A requested operation could not be accomplished because a needed resource is temporary down or missing (e.g. imap server rejects connection because of too many established connections).
5 A subsystem or third party service is down and therefore does not respond (e.g. database is down).
6 The underlying socket connection is corrupt, empty or closed. Only a temporary error that does not affect the whole system.
7 An internal java-related (runtime) exception.
8 A programming error which was caused by incorrect programm code.
9 A concurrent modification.
10 Error in system setup detected.
11 The requested operation could not be performed cause an underlying resource is full or busy (e.g. IMAP folder exceeds quota).
12 The given data could not be stored into the database because an attribute contains a too long value.
13 Action was at least partially successful, but a condition occurred that merited a warning

Data from the client to the server can be sent in several formats. Small amounts of data are sent as application/x-www-urlencoded in query parameters in the request URI. For POST requests, some or all parameters may be sent in the request body instead of in the URI using any valid encoding for POST requests. Alternatively, some requests specify that data is sent as text/javascript in the body of a PUT request. The format of the request body for PUT requests is the same as for sending data from the server to the client, except that the payload is sent directly, without being wrapped in another object.

When updating existing data, the client sends only fields that were modified. To explicitly delete a field, the field is sent with the value null. For fields of type String, the empty string "" is equivalent to null.

Error handling

If the session of the user times out, if the client doesn't send a session ID or if the session for the specified session ID can not be found then the server returns the above described response object, that contains an error code and an error message. If the request URI or the request body is malformed or incomplete then the server returns the reponse object with an error message, too. In case of internal server errors, especially Java exceptions, or if the server is down, it returns the HTTP status code 503, Service Unavailable. Other severe errors may return other HTTP status values.

Application errors, which can be caused by a user and are therefore expected during the operation of the groupware, are reported by setting the field error in the returned object, as described in Response body. Since the error messages are translated by the client, they can not be composed of multiple variable parts. Instead, the error message can contain simplified printf()-style conversion specifications, which are replaced by elements from the array in the field error_params. If error_params is not present, no replacement occurs, even if parts of the error message match the syntax of a conversion specification.

A simplified conversion specification, as used for error messages, is either of the form %s or %n$s, where n is an array index for error_params as a decimal number. The conversion specifications are replaced from left to right by elements from error_params, starting at index 0. %s is replaced by the element with the current index and the index is incremented. %n$s is replaced by the element with index n and the index is set to n + 1.

Date and time

Dates without time are transmitted as the number of milliseconds between 00:00 UTC on that date and 1970‑01‑01 00:00 UTC. Leap seconds are ignored, therefore this number is always an integer multiple of 8.64e7.

Because ECMAScript Date objects have no way to explicitly specify a timezone for calculations, timezone correction must be performed on the server. Dates with time are transmitted as the number of milliseconds since 1970‑01‑01 00:00 UTC (again, ignoring leap seconds) plus the offset between the user's timezone and UTC at the time in question. (See the Java method java.util.TimeZone.getOffset(long)).

For some date and time values, especially timestamps, monotonicity is more important than the actual value. Such values are transmitted as the number of milliseconds since 1970‑01‑01 00:00 UTC, ignoring leap seconds and without timezone correction. If possible, a unique strictly monotonic increasing value should be used instead, as it avoids some race conditions described below.

This specification refers to these three interpretations of the type Number as separate data types. The types are described in Date and time types.

Date and time types
Type Time Timezone Comment
Date No UTC Date without time.
Time Yes User Date and time.
Timestamp Yes UTC Timestamp or unique sequence number.

Updates

To allow efficient synchronization of a client with changes made by other clients and to detect conflicts, the server stores a timestamp of the last modification for each object. Whenever the server transmits data objects to the client, the response object described in Response body includes the field timestamp. This field contains a timestamp value which is computed as the maximum of the timestamps of all transmitted objects.

When requesting updates to a previously retrieved set of objects, the client sends the last timestamp which belongs to that set of objects. The response contains all updates with timestamps greater than the one specified by the client. The field timestamp of the response contains the new maximum timestamp value.

If multiple different objects may have the same timestamp values, then a race condition exists when an update is processed between two such objects being modified. The first, already modified object will be included in the update response and its timestamp will be the maximum timestamp value sent in the timestamp field of the response. If the second object is modified later but gets the same timestamp, the client will never see the update to that object because the next update request from the client supplies the same timestamp value, but only modifications with greater timestamp values are returned.

If unique sequence numbers can't be used as timestamps, then the risk of the race condition can be at least minimized by storing timestamps in the most precise format and/or limiting update results to changes with timestamp values which are measurably smaller than the current timestamp value.

Editing

Editing objects is performed one object at a time. There may be multiple objects being edited by the same client simulataneously, but this is achieved by repeating the steps required for editing a single object. There is no batch edit or upload command.

To edit an object, a client first requests the entire object from the server. The server response contains the timestamp field described in the previous section. For in-place editing inside a view of multiple objects, where only already retrieved fields can be changed, retrieving the entire object is not necessary, and the last timestamp of the view is used as the timestamp of each object in it.

When sending the modified object back to the server, only modified fields need to be included in the sent object. The request also includes the timestamp of the edited object. The timestamp is used by the server to ensure that the object was not edited by another client in the meantime. If the current timestamp of the object is greater than the timestamp supplied by the client, then a conflict is detected and the field error is set in the response. Otherwise, the object gets a new timestamp and the response to the client is empty.

If the client displays the edited object in a view together with other objects, then the client will need to perform an update of that view immediately after successfully uploading an edited object.

File uploads

File uploads are made by sending a POST request that submits both the file and the needed fields as parts of a request of content-type “multipart/form-data” or “multipart/mixed”. The file metadata are stored in a form field “file” (much like an <input type=”file” name=”file” /> would do). In general a call that allows file uploads via POST will have a corresponding call using PUT to send object data. The JSON-encoded object-data that is send as the body of a corresponding PUT call is, when performed as a POST with file uploads, put into the request parameter “json”.

Since the upload is performed directly by the browser and is not an Ajax call, the normal callback mechanism for asynchronous Javascript calls cannot be used to obtain the result. For this reason the server responds to these POST calls with a complete HTML page that performs the callback and should not be displayed to the user. The HTML response is of the form: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
    <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            parent.callback_**action**(**json**);
        </script>
    </head>
</html>

The placeholders **json** is replaced by the response with the timestamp that would be expected from the corresponding PUT method. The placeholder **action** is replaced by the value of the parameter action of the request. The content-type of the answer is text/html.

Documentation conventions

The rest of this document describes all available requests for each module. A module usually supports several different requests, which are differentiated by the used HTTP method, URI path and supplied URI parameters. The description of each method generally contains the following elements:

  • the HTTP method followed by the request URI, inclusing the URI parameter action, which is used to differentiate methods,
  • a list of URI parameters which can or must be supplied by the client,
  • for PUT requests, content of the request body,
  • "Response with timestamp:"if the timestamp field is required in the response body or simply "Response:" if not,
  • content of the response payload, unless it is supposed to be empty.

Module "login"

The login module is used to obtain a session ID from the user's login credentials.

Login

GET /ajax/login?action=login

Parameters:

  • name – The login name.
  • password – The password.

Response: A string containing the session ID used for all subsequent requests.

Logout

GET /ajax/login?action=logout

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Module "config"

The config module is used to retrieve and set user-specific configuration. The configuration is stored in a tree. Each node of the tree has a name and a value. The values of leaf nodes are strings which store the actual configuration data. The values of inner nodes are defined recursively as objects with one field for each child node. The name and the value of each field is the name and the value of the corresponding child node, respectively.

The namespace looks like the following:

  • /ajax/config/
    • gui – An string containing GUI-specific settings (currently, it is a huge JSON object).
    • identifier – the unique identifier of the user (read-only).
    • contact_id – the unique identifier of the contact data of the user (read-only).
    • language – the configured language of the user.
    • timezone – the configured timezone of the user.
    • calendarnotification - send a mail notification for appointments
    • tasknotification - send a mail notification for tasks
    • reloadTimes - Selectable times for GUI reload
    • serverVersion - Version string of the server.
    • currentTime - User timezone specific long of the current server time.
    • folder/ – the standard folder of the user
      • tasks – the standard task folder (read-only)
      • calendar – the standard calendar folder (read-only)
      • contacts – the standard contacts folder (read-only)
      • infostore – the private infostore folder (read-only)
    • mail/ – settings for the email module
      • folder/ – the standard email folders (read-only)
        • inbox – identifier of the folder that gets all incoming mails (read-only)
        • drafts – identifier of the folder with the mail drafts (read-only)
        • trash – identifier of the folder with the deleted mails (read-only)
        • spam – identifier of the folder with the spam mails (read-only)
        • sent – identifier of the folder with the sent mails (read-only)
      • htmlinline – activate inlining of HTML attachments.
      • colorquote – color quoted lines.
      • emoticons – display emoticons as graphics.
      • harddelete – delete emails at once.
      • inlineforward – forward messages as inline or attachment.
      • vcard – attach vcard when sending mails.
      • notifyonreadack – notify on read acknowledgement.
      • msgpreview – show a message preview.
      • ignorereplytext
      • nocopytosent – don't put a copy to the sent folder when sending mails.
      • spambutton - Spam Button should be displayed in GUI or not.

Get configuration data

GET /ajax/config/path

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Response: Value of the node specified by path.

Set configuration data

PUT /ajax/config/path

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: The new value of the node specified by path.

Module "folders"

The folders module is used to access the OX folder structure.

Special System Folders

Folders with some kind of special.

ID Type Description
6 contacts System Users

Get root folders

GET /ajax/folders?action=root

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for folders are defined in Common object data and Detailed folder data. The fields categories and private_flag are not available for folders.

Response: An array with data for all folders at the root level of the folder structure. Each array element describes one folder and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Common object data
ID Name Type Value
1 id String Object ID
2 created_by String User ID of the user who created this object.
3 modified_by String User ID of the user who last modified this object.
4 creation_date Time Date and time of creation.
5 last_modified Time Date and time of the last modification.
20 folder_id String Object ID of the parent folder.
100 categories Array Each element is a string, naming a category. Order is preserved. Changing the order counts as modification of the object. Not present in folder objects.
101 private_flag Boolean Overrides folder permissions in shared private folders: When true, this object is not visible to anyone except the owner. Not present in folder objects.
Detailed folder data
ID Name Type Value
300 title String Name of this folder.
301 module String Name of the module which implements this folder.
302 type Number Type of folder:
1 private
2 public
3 shared
5 system folder
304 subfolders Boolean true if this folder has subfolders.
305 own_rights Number or String Permissions which apply to the current user, as described either in Permission flags or in RFC 2086.
permissions Array Each element is an object described in Permission object.
307 summary String Information about contained objects.
308 standard_folder Boolean Indicates whether or not folder is marked as a default folder (only OX folder)
309 total Number The number of objects in this Folder.
310 new Number The number of new objects in this Folder.
311 unread Number The number of unread objects in this Folder.
312 deleted Number The number of deleted objects in this Folder.
Permission flags
Bits Value
0-61 Folder permissions:
0 No permissions.
1 See the folder.
2 Create objects in the folder.
4 Create subfolders.
64 Admin.
7-13 Read permissions for objects in the folder:
0 No permissions.
1 Read only own objects.
2 Read all objects.
64 Admin.
14-20 Write permissions for objects in the folder:
0 No permissions.
1 Modify only own objects.
2 Modify all objects.
64 Admin.
21-27 Delete permissions for objects in the folder:
0 No permissions.
1 Delete only own objects.
2 Delete all objects.
64 Admin.
28 Admin flag:
0 No permissions.
1 Allowed to modify permissions.
Permission object
Name Type Value
bits Number For non-mail folders, a number as described in Permission flags.
rights String For mail folders, the rights string as defined in RFC 2086.
entity Number User ID of the user or group to which this permission applies.
group Boolean true if entity refers to a group, false if it refers to a user.

Get subfolders

GET /ajax/folders?action=list

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • parent – Object ID of a folder, which is the parent folder of the requested folders.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for folders are defined in Common object data and Detailed folder data. The fields categories and private_flag are not available for folders.

Response with timestamp: An array with data for all folders, which have the folder with the requested object ID as parent. Each array element describes one folder and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Get path

GET /ajax/folders?action=path

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of a folder.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for folders are defined in Common object data and Detailed folder data. The fields categories and private_flag are not available for folders.

Response with timestamp: An array with data for all parent nodes until root folder. Each array element describes one folder and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Get updated folders

GET /ajax/folders?action=updates

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • parent – Object ID of a folder, which is the parent folder of the requested folders.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the requested folders.
  • ignore (optional) – Which kinds of updates should be ignored. Currently, the only valid value – "deleted" – causes deleted object IDs not to be returned.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for folders are defined in Common object data and Detailed folder data. The fields categories and private_flag are not available for folders.

Response with timestamp: An array with data for new, modified and deleted folders. New and modified folders are represented by arrays. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter. Deleted folders are identified by their object IDs as plain strings, without being part of a nested array.

Get a folder

GET /ajax/folders?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the requested folder.

Response with timestamp: An object containing all data of the requested folder. The fields of the object are listed in Common object data and Detailed folder data. The fields id, categories and private_flag are not present. Since OX access controls are folder-based, the folder object also defines the permissions for the objects it contains. The permissions for a given user or group are defined by the object described in Permission object. The format of the actual permissions depends on the type of the folder. The permissions of mail folders are transmitted as a rights string as defined in section 3 of RFC 2086. Permissions of all other folders are transmitted as a single nonnegative integer number. The permissions for any given action on the folder or on contained objects is defined by a group of bits in the binary representation of this number. Each group of bits is interpreted as a separate number. Zero always means "no permissions". Any other values add new permissions and always include the permissions of all lower values. The individual values are described in Permission flags.

Update a folder

PUT /ajax/folders?action=update

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the updated folder.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the updated folder. If the folder was modified after the specified timestamp, then the update must fail.

Request body: Folder object as described in Common object data and Detailed folder data. Only modified fields are present.

Create a folder

PUT /ajax/folders?action=new

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: Folder object as described in Common object data and Detailed folder data. The fields id, categories and private_flag are not present.

Response: Object ID of the newly created folder.

Delete folders

PUT /ajax/folders?action=delete

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the deleted folders.

Request body: An array with object IDs of the deleted folders.

Response: An array with object IDs of folders which were modified after the specified timestamp and were therefore not deleted.

Module "tasks"

The tasks module is used to access task information.

Get all tasks

GET /ajax/tasks?action=all

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for tasks are defined in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed task data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.

Response with timestamp: An array with task data. Each array element describes one task and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Detailed task and appointment data
ID Name Type Value
200 title String Short description.
201 start_date Date or Time Inclusive start of the event as Date for tasks and whole day appointments and Time for normal appointments. For sequencies, this date must be part of the sequence, i. e. sequencies always start at this date.
202 end_date Date or Time Exclusive end of the event as Date for tasks and whole day appointments and as Time for normal appointments.
203 note String Long description.
204 alarm Number Specifies when to notify the participantsas the number of minutes before the end of the task or before the start of the appointment.
206 recurrence_id Number Object ID of the entire appointment sequence. Present if and only if recurrence_type > 0.
207 recurrence_position Number 1-based position of an individual appointment in a sequence. Present if and only if recurrence_type > 0.
208 recurrence_date_position Date Date of an individual appointment in a sequence. Present if and only if recurrence_type > 0.
209 recurrence_type Number Specifies the type of the recurrence for a task sequence:
0 none (single event)
1 daily
2 weekly
3 monthly
4 yearly
212 days Number Specifies which days of the week are part of a sequence. The value is a bitfield with bit 0 indicating sunday, bit 1 indicating monday and so on. May be present if recurrence_type > 1. If allowed but not present, the value defaults to 127 (all 7 days).
213 day_in_month Number Specifies which day of a month is part of the sequence. Counting starts with 1. If the field "days" is also present, only days selected by that field are counted. If the number is bigger than the number of available days, the last available day is selected. Present if and only if recurrence_type > 2.
214 month Number Month of the year in yearly sequencies. 0 represents January, 1 represents February and so on. Present if and only if recurrence_type = 4.
215 interval Number Specifies an integer multiplier to the interval specified by recurrence_type. Present if and only if recurrence_type > 0. Must be 1 if recurrence_type = 4.
216 until Date Exclusive end date of a sequence. May be present only if recurrence_type > 0. The sequence has no end date if recurrence_type > 0 and this field is not present.
217 notification Boolean If true, all participants are notified of any changes to this object.
220 participants Array Each element identifies a participant, user group or booked resource as described in Participant identifier.
221 users Array Each element represents a participant as described in User participant object. User groups are resolved and are represented by their members. Any user can occur only once.
Participant identifier
Name Type Value
id Number User ID
type Number Type of participant:
1 user
2 user group
3 resource
4 resource group
User participant object
Name Type Value
id Number User ID
display_name String Displayable name of the participant.
confirmation Number
0 none
1 accepted
2 declined
3 tentative
confirmmessage String Confirm Message of the participant
Detailed task data
ID Name Type Value
300 status Number Status of the task:
1 not started
2 in progress
3 done
4 waiting
5 deferred
301 percent_completed Number How much of the task is completed. An integer number between 0 and 100.
302 actual_costs
303 actual_duration
304 after_complete
305 billing_information
306 project_id
307 target_costs
308 target_duration
309 priority
310 duration_type
311 type_of_costs
312 currency
313 trip_meter
314 companies
315 date_completed
102 color_label

Get a list of tasks

PUT /ajax/tasks?action=list

Parameters:

Request body: An array of with object IDs of requested tasks.

Response with timestamp: An array with task data. Each array element describes one task and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Get updated tasks

GET /ajax/tasks?action=updates

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for tasks are defined in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed task data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the requested tasks.
  • ignore (optional) – Which kinds of updates should be ignored. Currently, the only valid value – "deleted" – causes deleted object IDs not to be returned.

Response with timestamp: An array with new, modified and deleted tasks. New and modified tasks are represented by arrays. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter. Deleted tasks are identified by their object IDs as plain strings, without being part of a nested array.

Get a task

GET /ajax/tasks?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the requested task.

Response with timestamp: An object containing all data of the requested task. The fields of the object are listed in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed task data. The field id is not included.

Update a task

PUT /ajax/tasks?action=update

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the updated task.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the updated task. If the task was modified after the specified timestamp, then the update must fail.

Request body: Task object as described in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed task data. Only modified fields are present.

Create a task

PUT /ajax/tasks?action=new

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: Task object as described in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed task data. The field id is not present.

Response: Object ID of the newly created task.

Delete tasks

PUT /ajax/tasks?action=delete

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the deleted tasks.

Request body: An object in the field “id” and “folder_id”.

Response: An array with object IDs of tasks which were modified after the specified timestamp and were therefore not deleted.

Confirm task

PUT /ajax/tasks?action=confirm

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the to confirm task.
  • folder – ID of the folder through that the task is accessed.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the to confirm task.

Request body: An object with the fields "confirmation" and "confirmmessage" as described in User participant object.

Response: Nothing, except the standard response object with empty data, the timestamp of the confirmed and thereby updated task, and maybe errors.

Module "contacts"

The contacts module is used to access contact information.

Get all contacts

GET /ajax/contacts?action=all

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for contacts are defined in Common object data and Detailed contact data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.

Response with timestamp: An array with contact data. Each array element describes one contact and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Detailed contact data
ID Name Type Value
500 display_name String
501 first_name String First name.
502 last_name String Last name.
503 second_name String
504 suffix String
505 title String
506 street_home String
507 postal_code_home
508 city_home String
509 state_home String
510 country_home String
511 birthday Date
512 marital_status
513 number_of_children
514 profession String
515 nickname String
516 spouse_name String
517 anniversary Date
518 note String
519 department String
520 position String
521 employee_type
522 room_number
523 street_business String
525 postal_code_business
526 city_business String
527 state_business String
528 country_business String
529 number_of_employees
530 sales_volume
531 tax_id String
532 commercial_register String
533 branches String
534 business_category String
535 info String
536 manager_name String
537 assistant_name String
538 street_other String
539 city_other String
540 postal_code_other
541 country_other String
542 telephone_business1 String
543 telephone_business2 String
544 fax_business String
545 telephone_callback String
546 telephone_car String
547 telephone_company String
548 telephone_home1 String
549 telephone_home2 String
550 fax_home String
551 cellular_telephone1 String
552 cellular_telephone2 String
553 telephone_other String
554 fax_other String
555 email1 String
556 email2 String
557 email3 String
558 url String
559 telephone_isdn String
560 telephone_pager String
561 telephone_primary String
562 telephone_radio String
563 telephone_telex String
564 telephone_ttytdd String
565 instant_messenger1 String
566 instant_messenger2 String
567 telephone_ip String
568 telephone_assistant String
569 company String
570 image1
571 userfield01
572 userfield02
573 userfield03
574 userfield04
575 userfield05
576 userfield06
577 userfield07
578 userfield08
579 userfield09
580 userfield10
581 userfield11
582 userfield12
583 userfield13
584 userfield14
585 userfield15
586 userfield16
587 userfield17
588 userfield18
589 userfield19
590 userfield20
591 links Array An array of objects containing links to other contacts. Each contact is describes by an object as defined in Contact link data.
592 distribution_list Array If this contact is a distribution list, then this field is an array of objects. Each object describes a member of the list as defined in Distribution list member.
593 context_id
594 number_of_distributuion_list
595 number_of_links
596 contains_image1
597 image_last_modified
598 state_other
599 file_as
600 attachment
601 image1_content_type
602 mark_as_distributionlist
605 default_address
102 color_label
524 internal_userid
Contact link data
Name Type Value
id String Object ID
first_name String First name
last_name String Last name
Distribution list member
Name Type Value
id String User ID of the member if the member is an existing contact.
first_name String First name
last_name String Last name
mail String Email address
mail_field Number Which email field of an existing contact (if any) is used for the mail field.
0 independent contact
1 default email field (email1)
2 second email field (email2)
3 third email field (email3)

Get a list of contacts

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=list

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for contacts are defined in Common object data and Detailed contact data.

Request body: An array with object IDs of requested contacts.

Response with timestamp: An array with contact data. Each array element describes one contact and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Get updated contacts

GET /ajax/contacts?action=updates

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for contacts are defined in Common object data and Detailed contact data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the requested contacts.
  • ignore (optional) – Which kinds of updates should be ignored. Currently, the only valid value – "deleted" – causes deleted object IDs not to be returned.

Response with timestamp: An array with new, modified and deleted contacts. New and modified contacts are represented by arrays. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter. Deleted contacts are identified by their object IDs as plain strings, without being part of a nested array.

Get a contact

GET /ajax/contacts?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the requested contact.

Response with timestamp: An object containing all data of the requested contact. The fields of the object are listed in Common object data and Detailed contact data. The field id is not included.

Update a contact

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=update

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the updated contact.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the updated contact. If the contact was modified after the specified timestamp, then the update must fail.

Request body: Contact object as described in Common object data and Detailed contact data. Only modified fields are present.

Create a contact

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=new

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: Contact object as described in Common object data and Detailed contact data. The field id is not included.

Response: Object ID of the newly created contact.

Delete contacts

POST /ajax/contacts?action=delete

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the deleted contacts.

Request body: An object with the fields “id” and “folder_id”.

Response: An array with object IDs of contacts which were modified after the specified timestamp and were therefore not deleted.

Search contacts

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=search

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • columns – The requested fields

Request body: An Object as described in Search contacts.

Search contacts
Name Type Value
pattern String Search pattern to find contacts. In the pattern, the character "*" matches zero or more characters and the character "?" matches exactly one character. All other characters match only themselves.
startletter String Search contacts with the given startletter.

Request body: An Object as described in Search contacts.

Search contacts
Name Type Value
last_name String Searches contacts where the last name match with the given last name.
first_name String Searches contacts where the first name match with the given first name.
display_name String Searches contacts where the display name match with the given display name.
company String Searches contacts where the company match with the given company.

Response: An array with contact data. Each array element describes one contact and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Module "calendar"

The calendar module is used to access calendar data.

Get all appointments

GET /ajax/calendar?action=all

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder (optional) – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried. If not specified, defaults to all calendar folders.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for appointments are defined in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed appointment data.
  • start – Lower inclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which end on or after this date are returned.
  • end – Upper exclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which start before this date are returned.

Response with timestamp: An array with appointment data. Each array element describes one appointment and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter. Appointment sequencies are broken up into individual appointments and each occurrence of a sequence in the requested range is returned separately. The appointments are sorted in ascending order by the field start_date.

Detailed appointment data
ID Name Type Value
400 location String Location
401 full_time Boolean True if the appointment is a whole day appointment, false otherwise.
402 shown_as Number Describes, how this appointment appears in availability queries:
1 reserved
2 temporary
3 absent
4 free
102 color_label Number Color number used by Outlook to label the appointment. The assignment of colors to numbers is arbitrary and specified by the client. The numbers are integer numbers. TODO: zero allowed?
ignore_conflicts Boolean Ignore soft conflicts for the new or modified appointment.

Get appointment information

GET /ajax/calendar?action=has

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • start – Lower inclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which end on or after this date are returned.
  • end – Upper exclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which start before this date are returned.

Response is an array of booleans. Array length is the number of days.

Get a list of appointments

PUT /ajax/calendar?action=list

Parameters:

Request body: An array of requested appointments. Each element identifies one appointment and is described in Full identifier for an appointment.

Response with timestamp: An array with appointment data. Each array element describes one appointment and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Full identifier for an appointment
Name Type Value
id String Object ID
pos Number Value of the field recurrence_position, if present in the appointment.

Get updated appointments

GET /ajax/calendar?action=updates

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for appointments are defined in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed appointment data.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the requested appointments.
  • start (optional) – Lower inclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which end on or after this date are returned.
  • end (optional) – Upper exclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which start before this date are returned.
  • ignore (optional) – Which kinds of updates should be ignored. Currently, the only valid value – "deleted" – causes deleted object IDs not to be returned.

Response with timestamp: An array with new, modified and deleted appointments. New and modified appointments are represented by arrays. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter. Deleted appointments are identified by objects described in Full identifier for an appointment instead of arrays. Appointment sequencies are broken up into individual appointments and each modified occurrence of a sequence in the requested range is returned separately. The appointments are sorted in ascending order by the field start_date.

Get an appointment

GET /ajax/calendar?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the requested appointment.

Response with timestamp: An object containing all data of the requested appointment. The fields of the object are listed in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed appointment data. The field id is not included.

Update an appointment

PUT /ajax/calendar?action=update

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the updated appointment.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the updated appointment. If the appointment was modified after the specified timestamp, then the update must fail.

Request body: Appointment object as described in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed appointment data. The field recurrence_id is always present if it is present in the original appointment. The field recurrence_position is present if it is present in the original appointment and only this single appointment should be modified. The field id is not present because it is already included as a parameter. Other fields are present only if modified.

Create an appointment

PUT /ajax/calendar?action=new

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: Appointment object as described in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed appointment data. The field id is not present.

Response: Object ID of the newly created appointment.

Delete appointments

POST /ajax/calendar?action=delete

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the deleted appointments.

Request body: The appointment object to delete. The fields for the object are described in Full identifier for an appointment.

Response: An array of objects identifying the appointments which were modified after the specified timestamp and were therefore not deleted. The fields of each object are described in Full identifier for an appointment.

Free & Busy

GET /ajax/calendar?action=freebusy

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id - Internal user id. Must be obtained from the contact module.
  • type - Constant for user or resource
  • start – Lower inclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which end on or after this date are returned.
  • end – Upper exclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which start before this date are returned.

Response: An array of objects identifying the appointments which lie between start and end as described.
This objects consist of:

Name Type Value
shown_as Number Describes, how this appointment appears in availability queries:
1 reserved
2 temporary
3 absent
4 free
start_date Date or Time see Detailed task and appointment data
end_date Date or Time see Detailed task and appointment data
id String Object ID
full_time Boolean True if the appointment is a whole day appointment, not present otherwise.

Module "mail"

The mail module is used to access mail data.

When mails are stored on an IMAP server, some functionality is not available due to restrictions of the IMAP protocol. Such functionality is marked with "not IMAP".

Get mail count

GET /ajax/mail?action=count

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder whose mail count is queried

Response (not IMAP: with timestamp): An integer value representing folder's mail count

Get all mails

GET /ajax/mail?action=all

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for appointments are defined in Detailed mail data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response or the string “thread” to return thread-sorted messages. If this parameter is specified and holds a column number, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.
  • TODO: Search.

Response (not IMAP: with timestamp): An array with mail data. Each array element describes one mail and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Detailed mail data
ID Name Type Value
600 id String Object ID
601 folder_id String Object ID of the parent folder
602 attachment Boolean Specifies whether this mail has attachments.
603 from Array Each element is a string specifying one sender.
604 to Array Each element is a string specifying one receiver.
605 cc Array Each element is a string specifying one carbon-copy receiver.
606 bcc Array Each element is a string specifying one blind carbon-copy receiver.
607 subject String Subject line.
608 size Number Size of the mail in bytes.
609 sent_date Time Date and time as specified in the mail by the sending client.
610 received_date Time Date and time as measured by the receiving server.
611 flags Number Various system flags. A sum of zero or more of following values:
1 answered
2 deleted
4 draft
8 flagged
16 recent
32 seen
64 user

See javax.mail.Flags.Flag for details.

612 level Number Zero-based nesting level in a thread.
613 disp_notification_to String Content of message's header “Disposition-Notification-To”
614 priority Number Value of message's “X-Priority” header:
0 No priority
1 Very Low
2 Low
3 Normal
4 High
5 Very High
user Object An object with a field for every non-standard header. The header name is the field name. The header value is the value of the field as string.
attachments Array Each element is an attachment as described in Attachment. The first element is the mail text. If the mail has multiple representations (multipart-alternative), then the alternatives are placed after the mail text and have the field disp set to alternative.
nested_msgs Array Each element is a mail object as described in this table, except for fields id, folder_id and attachment.
Attachment
Name Type Value
id String Object ID (unique only inside the same message)
content_type String MIME type
content String Content as text. Present only if easily convertible to text.
filename String Displayed filename (mutually exclusive with content).
size Number Size of the attachment in bytes.
disp String Attachment's disposition: null, inline, attachment or alternative.

Get a list of mails

PUT /ajax/mail?action=list

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for mails are defined in Detailed mail data.

Request body: An array with object IDs of requested mails.

Response (not IMAP: with timestamp): An array with mail data. Each array element describes one mail and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Not IMAP: Get updated mails

GET /ajax/mail?action=updates

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Response: Just an empty JSON array is going to be returned since this action cannot be applied to IMAP.

Get a mail

GET /ajax/mail?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the requested mail.
  • edit (optional) – 1 indicates that this request should fill the message compose dialog to edit a message and thus display-specific date is going to be withheld.
  • hdr (optional) - 1 to let the response contain only the (formatted) message headers as plain text
  • src (optional) - 1 to let the response contain the complete message source as plain text
  • save (optional) - 1 to write the complete message source to output stream. NOTE: This parameter will only be used if parameter src is set to 1.

Response (not IMAP: with timestamp): An JSON object containing all data of the requested mail. The fields of the object are listed in Detailed mail data. The fields id and attachment are not included. NOTE: Of course response is not a JSON object if either parameter hdr or parameter src are set to "1". Then the response contains plain text. Moreover if optional parameter save is set to "1" the complete message source is going to be directly written to output stream to open browser's save dialog.

Get a mail attachment

GET /ajax/mail?action=attachment

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the mail which contains the attachment.
  • attachment – ID of the requested attachment
  • save – 1 overwrites the defined mimetype for this attachment to force the download dialog, otherwise 0.

Response body: The raw byte data of the document. The response type for the HTTP Request is set accordingly to the defined mimetype for this attachment, except the parameter save is set to 1.

Append to a mail

POST /ajax/mail?action=append

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the appended mail.
  • Not IMAP: timestamp – Timestamp of the updated contact. If the contact was modified after the specified timestamp, then the update must fail.
  • mail – Textual representation of a mail object as described in Detailed mail data. The fields id and attachment are not included. The object is encoded as text/javascript like the request body for PUT requests.
  • attachmentn (optional) – One or more attachments. n is a decimal integer starting with 0 and incrementing for every new attachment.

This method uses the encoding multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed.

Send a mail

POST /ajax/mail?action=new

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request Body: This method uses the encoding multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed.

  • The form filed json_0 contains the rudimentary mail as JSON object as described in Detailed mail data with just its message body (as html content) defined in nested JSON array "attachments" and its header data (from, to, subject, etc.). The field "content_type" defines whether the mail ought to be sent as plain text ("text/plain"), as html ("text/html") or as multipart/alternative ("ALTERNATIVE"). Sending of a mail defines some special fields inside JSON mail object. The field "infostore_ids" defines a JSON array of infostore document ID(s) that ought to be appended to this mail as attachments. The field "msgref" indicates the ID of the referenced original mail. Moreover the field "sendtype" indicates the type of the message:
  • 0 - A normal new mail (optional)
  • 1 - A reply mail. The field "msgref" must be present
  • 2 - A forward mail. The field "msgref" must be present

Example of a normal new mail which appends user's VCard and requests a read receipt from receiver: Content-Disposition: form-data; name="json_0"....{"from":"\u0022Muster, Karl\u0022 <karl.muster@somewhere.com>","to":"someone@somewhere.com","cc":"","bcc":"", "subject":"Mail Subject","priority":"3","disp_notification_to":true,"vcard":1, "attachments":[{"content_type":"ALTERNATIVE","content":"Simple Mail Text!<br><br>\u000a\u000a"}]}

  • The form field attachmentn (optional) – One or more file upload form fields whose referenced file are going to appended as attachments

Response: Object ID of the newly created mail.

Reply/Forward a mail

GET /ajax/mail?action=reply GET /ajax/mail?action=replyall GET /ajax/mail?action=forward

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the requested Message.
  • folder - Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.

Response (not IMAP: with timestamp): An object containing all data of the requested mail. The fields of the object are listed in Detailed mail data. The fields id and attachment are not included.

Delete mails

PUT /ajax/mail?action=delete

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • Not IMAP: timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the deleted mails.

Request body: An array with object IDs of the deleted mails.

Not IMAP: Response: An array with object IDs of mails which were modified after the specified timestamp and were therefore not deleted.

Module "groups"

The group module allows to query available groups. It is mainly used by the dialog for the selection of participants.

Get a group

GET /ajax/group?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – The group id.

Response: An array of group objects as described in Group response.

Search for participants

PUT /ajax/group?action=search

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: An object with search parameters as described in Participant search.

Participant search
Name Type Value
pattern String Search pattern to find groups. In the pattern, the character "*" matches zero or more characters and the character "?" matches exactly one character. All other characters match only themselves.

Response: An array of group objects as described in Group response.

Group response
Name Type Value
id Number ID
display_name String Display name
member Array Array of group member id's

Module "resource"

The resource module allows to query available resources. It is mainly used by the dialog for the selection of participants.

Get a resource

GET /ajax/resource?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – The resource id.

Response: An array of resource objects as described in Resource response.

Search for resources

PUT /ajax/resource?action=search

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: An object with search parameters as described in Participant search.

Participant search
Name Type Value
pattern String Search pattern to find resources. In the pattern, the character "*" matches zero or more characters and the character "?" matches exactly one character. All other characters match only themselves.

Response: An array of resource objects as described in Resource response.

Resource Response
Name Type Value
id Number ID
display_name String Display name

Module "infostore"

The infostore module combines the knowledge database, bookmarks and documents.

Get all infoitems

GET /ajax/infostore?action=all

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for infoitems are defined in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.

Response with timestamp: An array with infoitem data. Each array element describes one infoitem and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Detailed infoitem data
ID Name Type Value
700 title String Title
701 url String Link/URL
702 filename String Displayed filename of the document.
703 file_mimetype String MIME type of the document. The client converts known types to more readable names before displaying them.
704 file_size Number Size of the document in bytes.
705 version Number Version number of the document. New documents start at 1. Every update increments the version by 1.
706 description String Description
707 locked_until Time The time until which this item will presumably be locked. Only set if the docment is currently locked, 0 otherwise.
708 file_md5sum String MD5Sum of the document.
709 version_comment String A version comment is used to file a changelog for the file.
710 current_version Boolean “true” if this version is the current version “false” otherwise.
102 color_label Number Color number used by Outlook to label the appointment. The assignment of colors to numbers is arbitrary and specified by the client. The numbers are integer numbers. TODO: zero allowed?

Get a list of infoitems

PUT /ajax/infostore?action=list

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for infoitems are defined in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data.

Request body: An array with object IDs of requested infoitems.

Response with timestamp: An array with infoitem data. Each array element describes one infoitem and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Get updated infoitems

GET /ajax/infostore?action=updates

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for infoitems are defined in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the requested infoitems.
  • ignore (optional) – Which kinds of updates should be ignored. Currently, the only valid value – "deleted" – causes deleted object IDs not to be returned.

Response with timestamp: An array with new, modified and deleted infoitems. New and modified infoitems are represented by arrays. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter. Deleted infoitems are identified by their object IDs as plain strings, without being part of a nested array.

Get an infoitem

GET /ajax/infostore?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the requested infoitem.
  • version (optional) – If present the infoitem data describes the given version. Otherwise the current version is returned

Response with timestamp: An object containing all data of the requested infoitem. The fields of the object are listed in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data. The field id is not included.

Search infoitems

PUT /ajax/infostore?action=search

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • columns – The requested fields as per tables Common object data and Detailed infoitem data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.
  • start (optional) – The start index (inclusive) in the ordered search, that is requested.
  • end (optional) – The last index (inclusive) from the ordered search, that is requested.

Request body: An Object as described in Search contacts.

Get an infoitem document

GET /ajax/infostore/[filename]?action=document

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the requested infoitem.
  • version (optional) – If present the infoitem data describes the given version. Otherwise the current version is returned
  • content_type(optional) – If present the response declares the given content_type in the Content-Type header.

Response body: Rhe raw byte data of the document. The response type for the HTTP Request is set accordingly to the defined mimetype for this infoitem or the content_type given.

Note: The Filename may be added to the customary infostore path to suggest a filename to a Save-As dialog.

Get all versions

GET /ajax/infostore?action=versions

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the infoitem whose versions are requested.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for infoitems are defined in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.

Response with timestamp: An array with infoitem data. Each array element describes one infoitem and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter. The timestamp is the timestamp relating to the requested infostore item.

Update an infoitem via PUT

PUT /ajax/infostore?action=update

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the updated infoitem.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the updated infoitem. If the infoitem was modified after the specified timestamp, then the update must fail.

Request body: Infoitem object as described in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data. Only modified fields are present.

Update an infoitem via POST

POST /ajax/infostore?action=update

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the updated infoitem.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the updated infoitem. If the infoitem was modified after the specified timestamp, then the update must fail.
  • json - Infoitem object as described in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data. Only modified fields are present.
  • file – File Metadata as per <input type=”file” />

Request Body: Body of content-type “multipart/form-data” or “multipart/mixed” containing the above mentioned fields and file-data.

Response: The response is sent as a HTML document (see introduction).

Create an infoitem via PUT

PUT /ajax/infostore?action=new

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: Infoitem object as described in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data. The field id is not included.

Response: Object ID of the newly created infoitem.

Create an infoitem via POST

POST /ajax/infostore?action=new

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • json - Infoitem object as described in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data. The field id is not included.
  • file – File metadata as per <input type=”file” />

Request Body: Body of content-type “multipart/form-data” or “multipart/mixed” containing the above mentioned fields and file-data.

Response: Object ID of the newly created infoitem. The response is sent as a HTML document (see introduction).

Save an attachment in the infostore

PUT /ajax/infostore?action=saveAs

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • attached – The Object ID of the Object with the attachment
  • folder – The Folder ID of the Object with the attachment
  • module – The Module type of the Object with the attachment.
  • Attachment – The id of the attachement to save.

Request body: Infoitem object as described in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data. The field id is not included. The fields in this infoitem object override values from the attachment. The folder_id must be given.

Response: Object ID of the newly created infoitem.

Delete infoitems

POST /ajax/infostore?action=delete

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the deleted infoitems.

Request body: An array with object IDs of the deleted infoitems.

Response: An array with object IDs of infoitems which were modified after the specified timestamp and were therefore not deleted.

Delete versions of infostore documents

PUT /ajax/infostore?action=detach

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – The ID of the base Object
  • folder – The Folder of the Object
  • timestamp - Timestamp of the infostore object

Request body: A List of arrays with the version numbers of the infoitems to detach.

Response: An array with version numbers that were not deleted.

Note: When the current version of a document is deleted the new current version will be the newest version.

Delete all versions of infostore documents

PUT /ajax/infostore?action=revert

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – The ID of the base Object
  • folder – The Folder of the Object
  • timestamp - Timestamp of the infostore object

Removes all versions of the infostore document leaving only the base object.

Copy an infostore document via PUT

PUT /ajax/infostore?action=copy

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – The ID of the base Object
  • folder – The Folder of the Object
  • timestamp - Timestamp of the infostore object

Request body: Infoitem object as described in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data. Only modified fields are present.

Response: The id of the newly created object

Note: Only the fields (and the file) of the current document will be copied. Those fields present in the request are modified accordingly.

Copy an infostore document via POST

POST /ajax/infostore?action=copy

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the updated infoitem.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the updated infoitem. If the infoitem was modified after the specified timestamp, then the update must fail.
  • json - Infoitem object as described in Common object data and Detailed infoitem data. Only modified fields are present.
  • file – File Metadata as per <input type=”file” />

Request Body: Body of content-type “multipart/form-data” or “multipart/mixed” containing the above mentioned fields and file-data.

Response: The response is sent as a HTML document (see introduction).

Note: Only the fields (and the file) of the current document will be copied. Those fields present in the request are modified accordingly.

Lock an infoitem

GET /ajax/infostore?action=lock

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the infoitem that should be locked.
  • diff (optional) – If present the value is added to the current time on the server (both in ms). The document will be locked until that time. If this parameter is not present, the document will be locked for a duration as configured on the server.

Response with timestamp: Can only include errors.

Unlock an infoitem

GET /ajax/infostore?action=unlock

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – Object ID of the infoitem that should be unlocked.

Response with timestamp: Can only contain errors.

Module "Links"

The link module provides the ability to connect two objects from any module.

Get All Links from an Object

GET /ajax/link?action=all

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – The Object ID of the Object
  • folder – The Folder ID of the Object
  • module – The Module type of the Object

Response: An Array with all Links ( Link object) from the given Object ID.

Create a Link

PUT /ajax/link?action=new

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: Link object as described in Link object.

Response: An OK.

Link Object
Field Name Type Description
First Object ID id1 Number The ID of the first Object you want to start to link
First Module Type module1 Number The Module of this Object Possible Values:
1 Appointment
4 Task
7 Contact
13 Project
17 Forum
18 Pin board
19 Email
137 Infostore
First Folder ID folder1 String The Folder of this Object
Second Object ID id2 Number The ID of the second Object you want to link the first Object with
Second Module Type module2 Number The Module of the second Object

Possible Values:

1 Appointment
4 Task
7 Contact
13 Project
17 Forum
18 Pin board
19 Email
137 Infostore
Second Folder ID folder2 String The Folder of the second Object

Delete Link

PUT /ajax/link?action=delete

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • id – The ID of the base Object
  • module – The type of the Object
  • folder – The Folder of the Object

Request body: A List of arrays with the information of the Links to delete which looks like Delete object.

Response: A List of arrays with object Ids of links which are not readable by the user and were therefore not deleted. See Delete object.

Delete Object
Field Type Array Position
Object id Number 0
Module Number 1
Folder String 2

Module "Attachments"

The Attachment Module allows file attachments to arbitrary objects. Object addresses are defined analogous to the Link module. An Attachment always belongs to an object (called 'attached') in a certain folder of a certain module.

Get All Attachments for an Object

GET /ajax/attachment?action=all

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • attached – The Object ID of the Object
  • folder – The Folder ID of the Object
  • module – The Module type of the Object
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for attachment's are defined in Common object data (with only id, created_by and creation_date available) and Attachment object.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.

Response: An array with attachment data. Each array element describes one attachment and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Get a list of attachments

PUT /ajax/attachment?action=list

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for attachments are defined in Common object data (with only id, created_by and creation_date available) and Attachment object.
  • attached – The Object ID of the Object
  • folder – The Folder ID of the Object
  • module – The Module type of the Object

Request body: An array of with object IDs of requested tasks.

Response with timestamp: An array with attachment data. Each array element describes one attachment and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Create an Attachment

POST /ajax/attachment?action=attach

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • json_[index] – The JSON representation of an attachment object as described in Common object data (with only id, created_by and creation_date available) and Attachment object.
  • file_[index] – The file metadata as per <input type=file /> upload.

Note: The JSON Object and file fields describe the corresponding attachment. For ex.: json_0 contains metadata for file_0, json_1 for file_1 and so on. Indexes start with 0.

Request body: multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed containing the file data of the attached file and the above fields.

Response: HTML page with javascript callback as per introduction. Contains a JSON-Array of ids of the newly created attachments. The order of the ids corresponds to the indexes in the request.

Attachment Object
ID Name Type Description
800 folder Number The ID of the first Folder in which the attached object resides.
801 attached Number The object id of the object this attachement is attached to.
802 module Number The Module of this Object Possible Values:
1 Appointment
4 Task
7 Contact
137 Infostore
803 filename String The filename of the attached file.
804 file_size Number The file size (in bytes) of the attached file.
805 file_mimetype String The MIME-Type of the attached file
806 rft_flag Boolean If the attachment is a RTF Attachment of Outlook. (Outlook descriptions can be stored as RTF Documents).

Delete Attachment

PUT /ajax/attachment?action=detach

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • attached – The ID of the base Object
  • module – The type of the Object
  • folder – The Folder of the Object

Request body: An array with the ids of the attachments to delete.

Get updated attachments

GET /ajax/attachment?action=updates

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • attached – Object ID of the object to which the attachments are attached.
  • module – Module ID (as per Attachment object) of the attached object.
  • columns – A comma-separated list of columns to return. Each column is specified by a numeric column identifier. Column identifiers for attachments are defined in Common object data (with only id, created_by and creation_date available) and Attachment object.
  • sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter order must be also specified.
  • order (optional) – "asc" if the response entires should be sorted in the ascending order, "desc" if the response entries should be sorted in the descending order. If this parameter is specified, then the parameter sort must be also specified.
  • timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the requested infoitems.

ignore (optional) – Which kinds of updates should be ignored. Currently, the only valid value – "deleted" – causes deleted object IDs not to be returned.

Response with timestamp: An array with new and deleted attachments for the specified object. New attachments are represented by arrays. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter. Deleted attachments are identified by their object IDs as plain numbers, without being part of a nested array.

Get an attachment

GET /ajax/attahment?action=get

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • attached – Object ID of the object to which the attachments are attached.
  • module – Module ID (as per Attachment object) of the attached object.
  • id – Object ID of the requested attachment.

Response with timestamp: An object containing all data of the requested attachment. The fields of the object are listed in Common object data (with only id, created_by and creation_date available) and Attachment object.

Get an attachments filedata

GET /ajax/attachment/[filename]?action=document

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – Object ID of the folder, whose contents are queried.
  • attached – Object ID of the object to which the attachments are attached.
  • module – Module ID (as per Attachment object) of the attached object.
  • id – Object ID of the requested attachment.
  • content_type (optional) – If set the responses Content-Type header is set to this value, not the attachements file mime type.

Response body: The raw byte data of the document. The response type for the HTTP Request is set accordingly to the defined mimetype for this infoitem. Note: The Filename may be added to the customary infostore path to suggest a filename to a Save-As dialog.

Module "reminder"

The reminder module provides the ability to fetch all active reminders for a user between two dates.

Get reminder range

GET /ajax/reminder?action=range

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • end – The End date of the reminder range

Response: An Array with all reminders which are scheduled until the specified time. Each reminder is described in Reminder response.

Reminder response
Field Type Description
object_id Number The ID of the reminder.
target_id Number The target_id where this reminder is attached to
alarm Time The time of the alarm
module Number The module of the reminder

Delete Link

PUT /ajax/link?action=delete

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: An object with the field “id”.

Module "multiple"

The multiple module allows to bundle multiple requests to most other modules in a single request. Not supported are:

  • modules login, config and multiple,
  • POST requests with a multipart encoding (uploads),
  • GET requests which do not use an object as described in Response body as response body (downloads).

Multiple requests

PUT /ajax/multiple

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • continue – Specifies whether processing of requests should stop when an error occurs, or whether all request should be processed regardless of errors.

Request body: An array with request objects. Each request object contains all URI parameters of the "normal" request as fields. The module name of the "normal" request is included in the field module. The parameter session is not included. If the "normal" request has a request body, the object which is represented by that request body is includes as the value of the field data.

Response: An array with reply objects as described in Response body. The order of reply objects corresponds to the order of requests in the request body. Unlike with all other modules, this response is itself not part of a response object as described in Response body.

Module "quota"

The filestore module allows accesssing information about the use and quota of the filestore.

Get the filestore usage data

GET /ajax/quota?action=filestore

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Response: A JSON Object containing the fields “use” and “quota”. “use” represents the uploaded files sizes sum and the field “quota” represents the maximum.

Get the mail usage data

GET /ajax/quota?action=mail

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Response: A JSON Object containing the fields “use” and “quota”. “use” represents the use mail quota and the field “quota” represents the maximum. -1 represents an unlimited quota.


Module "import"

The module import allows to import specific module data (like Contacts, Tasks or Appointments) in several formats (iCal, vCard, CSV) into a folder.

Import CSV

POST /ajax/import?action=CSV

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – ObjectID of the folder into which data should be imported. This must be a Contact folder.

Request body: An .CSV file. The column titles of the table are those used within the OX.

Response: An array of JSON-Objects, one for each entry in the list, containing: The Object ID of the entry, the Object ID of the folder the data was written into, a timestamp of the modification (in case of error, of modification attempt) and an error in case the data could not be entered.

Import Outlook CSV

POST /ajax/import?action=OUTLOOK_CSV

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – ObjectID of the folder into which data should be imported. This must be a Contact folder.

Request body: An .CSV file. The column titles of the table are those used by the English version of Outlook.

Response: An array of JSON-Objects, one for each entry in the list, containing: The Object ID of the entry, the Object ID of the folder the data was written into, a timestamp of the modification (in case of error, of modification attempt) and an error in case the data could not be entered.

Import iCAL

POST /ajax/import?action=ICAL

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – ObjectID of the folder into which data should be imported. This may be an Appointment or a Task folder. May even be a list containing both.

Request body: An iCalendar file.

Response: An array of JSON-Objects, one for each entry in the list, containing: The Object ID of the entry, the Object ID of the folder the data was written into, a timestamp of the modification (in case of error, of modification attempt) and an error in case the data could not be entered.

Import vCard

POST /ajax/import?action=VCARD

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – ObjectID of the folder into which data should be imported. This must be a Contact folder.

Request body: An vCard file, maybe of the formats: vCard 2.1, vCard 3.0 or vCalendar 1.0

Response: An array of JSON-Objects, one for each entry in the list, containing: The Object ID of the entry, the Object ID of the folder the data was written into, a timestamp of the modification (in case of error, of modification attempt) and an error in case the data could not be entered.

Module "export"

The module export allows to export specific module data (like Contacts, Tasks or Appointments) from a folder in several formats (iCal, vCard, CSV).

Exporting CSV

GET /ajax/export?action=CSV

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – ObjectID of the folder whose contents are to be exported. This must be a Contact folder.
  • columns – (optional) Columns to be imported from the given file, given as an array of column numbers. See Detailed contact data for numbers.

Response: An InputStream containing the file of the MIME type text/csv.

Exporting iCAL

GET /ajax/export?action=ICAL

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – ObjectID of the folder whose contents are to be exported. This must be a Contact folder.

Response: An InputStream containing the file, of the MIME type text/calendar.

Exporting vCard

GET /ajax/export?action=VCARD

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
  • folder – ObjectID of the folder whose contents are to be exported. This must be a Contact folder.

Response: An InputStream containing the file, of the MIME type text/x-vcard.

Module "sync"

The module sync delivers several core API extensions to support common operations used in a mobile synchronization environment.

Clearing a folder's content

PUT /ajax/sync?action=refresh_server

Parameters:

  • session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.

Request body: A JSON array containing the folder ID(s) whose content should be cleared. NOTE: Although the requests offers to clear multiple folders at once it is recommended to clear only one folder per request since if any exception occurs (e.g. missing permissions) the complete request is going to be aborted.

Response: A JSON array containing the IDs of folders that could not be cleared due to a concurrent modification. Meaning you receive an empty JSON array if everything worked well.

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