Tutorial: Provision OX as a Service using SOAP

Overview

OX as a Service is using the same code everybody can download and install using our various guides. Since it is a hosted service using a reseller model, the provisioning api is using the Reseller Bundle to extend the usual two administrative layers by an additional one.

Open-Xchange does also not contain a mail server in general, but requires one in order to act like a mail client. OX as a Service is using Dovecot as mail server and thus extends the usual Open-Xchange provisioning capabilities by mechanisms to manage some email specific settings.

Open-Xchange concept of Contexts

In order to provision users and groups into Open-Xchange, it is important to understand, that Open-Xchange is designed for shared hosting environments in a way that it has to serve multiple tenants, customers, domains, or however you want to name it. In Open-Xchange, we call that a Context. A context is a sealed container for users and groups. Users in a context can not see users of other contexts, nor can they share data with users of other contexts (with the exception of Open-Xchange publish and subscribe functionality).

A usual scenario is to have a company, a family or in general one end customer in a context. One can also say, a context is a domain, and usually that makes sense, since a company has one domain. However, Open-Xchange contexts are not limited to one domain only.

Open-Xchange concept of provisioning

A plain Open-Xchange installation consists of two administrative levels.

root level, usually we call that oxadminmaster
context level

oxadminmaster / root

The root, or oxadminmaster account is used to

add, remove and configure filestores attached to Open-Xchange
add, remove and configure databases attached to Open-Xchange
add, remove and configure contexts

and change parameters like add/remove domains, change per context filesystem quota, etc.

Up to Open-Xchange version 7.8.0, it was not able to add or remove users and groups, nor any other data within a context!

Context admin

The context admin is like an ordinary Open-Xchange user, except that it can add, remove and edit users and groups within Open-Xchange. In addition, it inherits shared data of users, that are deleted.

OX as a Service concept of provisioning

As written before, plain Open-Xchange only has one root account. In a reseller scenario, that would mean if we want resellers to be able to create contexts for their customers, we would have to hand out our root account. Since that is not desirable, we added another layer via the Reseller Bundle as mentioned earlier.

root level, usually we call that oxadminmaster
subadmin level / brand level
context level

root and context level don't change, except that context level can be restricted.

The subadmin account can only add, remove or configure contexts. As well as the root account, it can NOT add, remove and configure users within contexts. Contexts created by a subadmin account can not be seen by other subadmin accounts.

What is a brand?

A brand is a customers subadmin login to the OXaaS SOAP provisioning API.

OX as a Service specifics

Shared domains vs ordinary domains

In order to create a user in Open-Xchange, you have to set an email address for that user. This will directly lead into a domain to be created into OXaaS bound to that user and its context, if that domain does not already exists and is owned by a different context.

If you want to share domains between multiple contexts, you have to use shared domains. Shared domains must be created in advance using the createSharedDomain method (see OXaaS specific methods)

You can use the existsMailAlias method to check for the existence of an alias before you create it.

Catchall accounts

If the feature is enabled in your contract, you can create catchall mail aliases bound to users within contexts.

User permissions

See OXaaS permission description below.

Provisioning

Reference implementation

The reference implementation of the European OX as a Service system can be found in the OX as a Service APS package for Odin Service Automation.

Workflow

Subadmin credentials

The first requirement is to get subadmin credentials for your company. Please follow the steps documented here to get such an account.

Together with the login and password you will also retrieve the provisioning URL to be used by all SOAP requests. In addition, it is required that you give us a list of ip addresses or network(s) that should be allowed to access the provisioning system.

WSDL files

Just point your browser to the provisioning URL you got from us. You will find some services listed there. You will need the following services from that list:

https://hostname/webservices/OXaaSService?wsdl: OX as a Service specific functions
https://hostname/webservices/OXResellerContextService?wsdl: Context management
https://hostname/webservices/OXResellerUserService?wsdl: User management

and optionally

https://hostname/webservices/OXResellerGroupService?wsdl: Group management
https://hostname/webservices/OXResellerResourceService?wsdl: Resource management

Create a context

Once you have the credentials in place, you are ready to create your first context.

Creating a context requires to create the first user in that context, that is the context admin, see above.

Mandatory settings for a context are

name: name of the context
quota: file quota in MB for that context (Note: that is file, not mail!)
taxonomy: must be set to the login of your subadmin account, see below

Important: In OXaaS, the name of the context must always start with your subadmin login with an underscore appended. E.g. when your subadmin login is johndoe, the all your context names must start with johndoe_!

Optional settings

framecolor: io.ox/dynamic-theme//frameColor
iconcolor: io.ox/dynamic-theme//iconColor
selectioncolor: io.ox/dynamic-theme//selectionColor
logowidth: io.ox/dynamic-theme//logoWidth
logourl: io.ox/dynamic-theme//logoURL
logouturl: io.ox/core//customLocations/logout, see this section for more information on the settings above
id: A numerical id bound to the context. When you create a context, this id will be generated. You will need that later when you manage users. The id can be looked up via the context name.

userAttributes

The settings brandtaxonomy and the other optional settings except id are part of the userAttributes SOAP field. All other settings can easily be set via simple SOAP settings. userAttributes is a hash that contains some settings that are not available in all setups of Open-Xchange. It allows to extend Open-Xchange functionality dynamically like done in OXaaS.

The hash looks like this:

userAttributes => entries => EntryArray

with EntryArray :=

[
  { key   => "somekey"
    value => somevalue },
  { key   => "someotherkey"
    value => someothervalue },
  ...
]

somevalue can be an array again, e.g.:

somevalue => entries => EntryArray

with EntryArray :=

[
  { key   => "somekey"
    value => somevalue },
  { key   => "someotherkey"
    value => someothervalue },
  ...
]

and so on

Example dump using perls Data::Dumper:

          'userAttributes' => {
                              'entries' => [
                                           {
                                             'value' => {
                                                        'entries' => [
                                                                     {
                                                                       'value' => '#0000ff',
                                                                       'key' => 'io.ox/dynamic-theme//selectionColor'
                                                                     },
                                                                     {
                                                                       'value' => '#ff0000',
                                                                       'key' => 'io.ox/dynamic-theme//frameColor'
                                                                     },
                                                                     {
                                                                       'value' => '#00ff00',
                                                                       'key' => 'io.ox/dynamic-theme//iconColor'
                                                                     }
                                                                   ]
                                                      },
                                             'key' => 'config'
                                           },
                                           {
                                             'value' => {
                                                        'entries' => {
                                                                     'value' => 'johndoe',
                                                                     'key' => 'types'
                                                                   }
                                                      },
                                             'key' => 'taxonomy'
                                           }
                                         ]
                            },

Admin User

name: login name of the context admin
password: password
email: email address of the context admin
displayname: displayname (usually surname givenname)
surname: surname
givenname: given name
lang: language, e.g. en_GB, en_US, de_DE, ...
timezone: Java timezone such as Europe/Berlin,

Timezones

To get a list of all available timezones, you can run this short Java program:

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class AllTimeZones {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for(final String zone : TimeZone.getAvailableIDs() ) {
            System.out.println(zone);
        }
    }

}

Languages

This is the list of currently supported languages in OXaaS:

ja_JP
de_DE
es_ES
es_MX
fr_FR
it_IT
nl_NL
pl_PL
zh_TW
en_US
en_GB

Create users

Creating users requires the following parameters

name: login name of the context admin
password: password
email: email address of the context admin
displayname: displayname (usually surname givenname)
surname: surname
givenname: given name
lang: language, e.g. en_GB, en_US, de_DE, ...
timezone: Java timezone such as Europe/Berlin,
moduleaccess: the module access combination name
mailquota: the mail quota of the user in MB

Timezones and languages like documented earlier.

Valid values for moduleaccess are:

webmail_plus
groupware_standard
groupware_advanced
groupware_premium

Other settings are not supported.

userAttributes

It might be required you have to set some specific attributes per user like the Edition Type as done by the OXaaS APS package.

There's a choice of 7 different edition types:

webmail: bound to webmail_plus
basic: bound to groupware_standard
advanced: bound to groupware_advanced
pro: bound to groupware_premium
pro_m: bound to groupware_premium
pro_l: bound to groupware_premium
pro_xl: bound to groupware_premium

which can be set within each users oxaas_edition_type within a tree oxaas:

'userAttributes' => {
                    'entries' => {
                                 'key' => 'oxaas',
                                 'value' => {
                                            'entries' => {
                                                         'key' => 'oxaas_edition_type',
                                                         'value' => 'pro_l'
                                                         }
                                            }
                                }
                    }

see createuser example script

Workflow

Create the user in Open-Xchange

Use the name and password of the context admin user of the context you created earlier and define

a Credentials object.

Find the numerical id of the context e.g. in using OXResellerContextService->getData(name="contextname")

Use the OXResellerUserService->createByModuleAccessName to create users.

Note: Although there are three create methods in the SOAP user service API, you have to use the method createByModuleAccessName and specify one of the names listed above.

Set mail quota

Use the name and password of the context admin user of the context you created earlier and define

a Credentials object.

Find the numerical id of the context e.g. in using OXResellerContextService->getData(name="contextname")
Find the numerical id of the user either by using OXResellerUserService->getData(name="username") or use/store the return value of OXResellerUserService->createByModuleAccessName

Use the OXaaSService->setMailQuota call to set the mail quota for the user created above.

Set OXaaS permissions

Explanation

The OXaaS permissions allow to enable or disable a certain set of features. Currently, the following permissions are available:

OXaaS permissions
Permission	Description
SEND	User is allowed to send mail
RECEIVE	User is allowed to receive mail
MAILLOGIN	User can login using IMAP
WEBLOGIN	User can login to OX webmail.

The permission names are case insensitive. The WEBLOGIN permission is the same as the Mailenabled permission in the user data of the Open-Xchange core api. The permission OXaaS api provides another way to enable/disable it.

Workflow

Use the name and password of the context admin user of the context you created earlier and define

a Credentials object.

Find the numerical id of the context e.g. in using OXResellerContextService->getData(name="contextname")
Find the numerical id of the user either by using OXResellerUserService->getData(name="username") or use/store the return value of OXResellerUserService->createByModuleAccessName

Use one of OXaaSService->enablePermissions, OXaaSService->disablePermissions or OXaaSService->getPermissions to change or retrieve permissions. Permissions must always be provided as an array of 1 or more permissions.

OXaaS specific methods

The following SOAP methods are specific to OXaaS and are NOT part of the general Open-Xchange provisioning API.

OXaaS specific SOAP calls and its authentication requirements
Method	Functionality	Authentication
getQuotaUsage	get the overall mail quota usage of all users within the given context	Subadmin
createSharedDomain	create a shared domain	Subadmin
existsLogin	check whether user login already exists. Note: a users login must be unique within all users for your subadmin account and NOT only per context!	Subadmin
existsMailAlias	check whether given mail alias already exists	Subadmin
createDomainCatchall	create a domain catchall	Subadmin
getQuotaUsagePerUser	get mail quota usage of the individual user within the given context	Subadmin
listDomainCatchalls	list all existing domain catchalls	Subadmin
setMailQuota	set the mail quota of the individual user within the context	Context Admin
deleteDomainCatchall	delete the given domain catchall	Subadmin
getPermissions	list given users permissions	Context Admin
enablePermissions	enable provided permissions for given user	Context Admin
disablePermissions	enable provided permissions for given user	Context Admin
setExpiryDate	store expiry date for the given user	Context Admin
getExpiryDate	get expiry date stored for user	Context Admin
deleteExpiryDate	delete the expiry date stored in the given user	Context Admin
getExpiredUsers	retrieve list of expired users	Context Admin

The WSDL source file for these methods contain documentation for each of the calls and parameters. You can download it here: http://software.open-xchange.com/products/appsuite/doc/oxasservice/OXaaSService.wsdl

SOAP provisioning feature matrix

(WIP)

The table below shows what method(s) to use and what to set in order to configure the different feature sets.

The value in the row Module Access Name must be given as a parameter to OXResellerUserService->changeByModuleAccessName or OXResellerUserService->createByModuleAccessName.

The values in the row Capabilities must be given as parameters to the userAttributes member of the User object that should be changed and then passed to OXResellerUserService->change or OXResellerUserService->createByModuleAccessName.

Note: OXResellerUserService->changeByModuleAccessName does NOT change these capabilities!

Provisioning Feature Matrix
Feature	Module Access Name	Capabilities (mandatory values in bold, others are optional)
Web Mail	webmail_plus	`com.openexchange.capability.drive = false` `com.openexchange.capability.document_preview = false` `com.openexchange.capability.spreadsheet = false` `com.openexchange.capability.text = false` `com.openexchange.capability.presenter = false` `com.openexchange.capability.remote_presenter = false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard = false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard-mail = false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard-drive = false`
Basic	`groupware_standard`	`com.openexchange.capability.drive = true` `com.openexchange.capability.document_preview = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.spreadsheet = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.text = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.presenter = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.remote_presenter = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard-mail = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard-drive = true/false`
Advanced	`groupware_advanced`	`com.openexchange.capability.drive = true` `com.openexchange.capability.document_preview = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.spreadsheet = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.text = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.presenter = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.remote_presenter = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard-mail = true/false` `com.openexchange.capability.guard-drive = true/false`
Pro	`groupware_premium`	`com.openexchange.capability.drive = true` `com.openexchange.capability.document_preview = true` `com.openexchange.capability.spreadsheet = true` `com.openexchange.capability.text = true` `com.openexchange.capability.presenter = true` `com.openexchange.capability.remote_presenter = true` `com.openexchange.capability.guard = true` `com.openexchange.capability.guard-mail = true` `com.openexchange.capability.guard-drive = true`

List of available capabilities (incomplete)

These features are controlled by the ConfigCascade.

For drive and documents the following settings are responsible:

OX Drive

com.openexchange.capability.drive = true/false

OX Docs

com.openexchange.capability.document_preview = true/false
com.openexchange.capability.spreadsheet = true/false
com.openexchange.capability.text = true/false
com.openexchange.capability.presenter = true/false
com.openexchange.capability.remote_presenter = true/false

OX Guard

com.openexchange.capability.guard = true/false
com.openexchange.capability.guard-mail = true/false
com.openexchange.capability.guard-drive = true/false

OX Messenger

com.openexchange.capability.messenger = true/false
com.openexchange.capability.messenger-phone = true/false

check out this article for more capabilities

Using this perl example:

e.g. this

      logouturl => {
              setting => "io.ox/core//customLocations/logout",
              value   => "logouturl"
      }

is setting the ConfigCascade setting io.ox/core//customLocations/logout to the string “logouturl"

 io.ox/core//customLocations/logout = "logouturl"

adding

      oxdrive => {
              setting => "com.openexchange.capability.drive",
              value   => "true"
      }

in that example would turn on drive.

Code Examples

Java

Generating the SOAP client

Since Open-Xchange is using Apache CXF for SOAP, we recommend to use the wsdl2java code generator from that package.

The Open-Xchange SOAP services are divided into multiple parts, which makes the code generation a little complex.

In OXaaS we need at least three services in order to create contexts and users:

OXResellerContextService
OXResellerUserService
OXaaSService

The shell script below generates the stubs of these three services into the directory defined in the CODEBASE variable. In addition, you have to set WSDLURL to point it to the provisioning URL you will get from us as mentioned earlier.

Just cut&paste the shell script below into a file and run it using the bash shell.

# 1. download apache-cxf tarball, extract it and "cd" into the directory, e.g.
#    tar zxvpf apache-cxf-3.0.0-milestone1.tar.gz; cd apache-cxf-3.0.0-milestone1
# 2. change variables CODEBASE, JAVA_HOME and WSDLURL
# 3. run this script "bash oxaas-wsdl2java"
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/j2sdk1.7-oracle/"
CODEBASE="/home/oxgit/workspace/OXaaSJClient/src"
WSDLURL="https://youroxaashost/webservices"

rm -rf $CODEBASE
frontend=jaxws21
dbinding=jaxb

JAXBTMP=/tmp/jaxb$$.xml
rm -f $JAXBTMP
cat<<EOF > $JAXBTMP
<jaxb:bindings version="2.1"
xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
xmlns:xjc="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/xjc"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <jaxb:globalBindings generateElementProperty="false"/>
</jaxb:bindings>
EOF

pname="com.openexchange.oxaas.context"
bin/wsdl2java -databinding $dbinding -frontend $frontend -client -impl -d $CODEBASE -keep -b $JAXBTMP \
-p "http://soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com=${pname}" \
-p "http://dataobjects.rmi.reseller.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.reseller.rmi.dataobjects" \
-p "http://dataobjects.soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.reseller.soap.dataobjects" \
-p "http://dataobjects.soap.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.soap.dataobjects" \
-p "http://dataobjects.rmi.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.rmi.dataobjects" \
-p "http://exceptions.rmi.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.rmi.exceptions" \
-p "http://rmi.java/xsd=${pname}.java.rmi" \
-p "http://io.java/xsd=${pname}.java.io" \
${WSDLURL}/OXResellerContextService?wsdl

pname="com.openexchange.oxaas.user"
bin/wsdl2java -databinding $dbinding -frontend $frontend -client -impl -d $CODEBASE -keep -b $JAXBTMP \
-p "http://soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com=${pname}" \
-p "http://dataobjects.rmi.reseller.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.reseller.rmi.dataobjects" \
-p "http://dataobjects.soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.reseller.soap.dataobjects" \
-p "http://dataobjects.soap.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.soap.dataobjects" \
-p "http://dataobjects.rmi.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.rmi.dataobjects" \
-p "http://exceptions.rmi.admin.openexchange.com/xsd=${pname}.rmi.exceptions" \
-p "http://rmi.java/xsd=${pname}.java.rmi" \
-p "http://io.java/xsd=${pname}.java.io" \
${WSDLURL}/OXResellerUserService?wsdl

pname="com.openexchange.oxaas.extra"
bin/wsdl2java -databinding $dbinding -frontend $frontend -client -impl -d $CODEBASE -keep -b $JAXBTMP \
-p "http://soap.oxaas.admin.openexchange.com/=${pname}" \
${WSDLURL}/OXaaSService?wsdl

rm -f $JAXBTMP

When you generate the code into an existing eclipse project, you should have three main packages as shown in the image below

Example Client

In the following example, the context creation and the user creation is separated into different programs.

We assume, you have created the Java client stub(s) as documented above and have it in your library path or eclipse project.

To summarize some essential requirements from the example below:

The name of each context you create must start with your subadmin name followed by an underscore _
You must set the userAttribute taxonomy at least
The context admin user must get the groupware_premium access permission

Context creation

The example below shows how to create a context in OXaaS.

package com.openexchange.oxaas.myclient;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.ContextExistsExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.DatabaseUpdateExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.Delete;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.DuplicateExtensionExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.InvalidCredentialsExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.InvalidDataExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.NoSuchContextExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.OXResellerContextService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.OXResellerContextServicePortType;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.RemoteExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.StorageExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.soap.dataobjects.Entry;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.soap.dataobjects.SOAPMapEntry;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.soap.dataobjects.SOAPStringMap;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.soap.dataobjects.SOAPStringMapMap;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.soap.dataobjects.User;

/*
 * Example SOAP client for OXaaS OXResellerContextService
 * 
 * Create a context
 * 
 */
public class MyContextClientExample {

    private static final QName SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com", "OXResellerContextService");

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String subadminname = "mysubadmin";
        final String subadminpw   = "secret";
        final String ctxname      = subadminname + "_myctx";

        Credentials creds = new Credentials();
        ResellerContext ctx = new ResellerContext();
        User oxadmin = new User();

        OXResellerContextService contextservice = new OXResellerContextService(OXResellerContextService.WSDL_LOCATION, SERVICE_NAME);
        OXResellerContextServicePortType contextport = contextservice.getOXResellerContextServiceHttpSoap11Endpoint();  

        creds.setLogin(subadminname);
        creds.setPassword(subadminpw);

        SOAPMapEntry taxonomy = new SOAPMapEntry();
        taxonomy.setKey("taxonomy");
        SOAPStringMap taxtypeval = new SOAPStringMap();
        Entry taxtypeent = new Entry();
        taxtypeent.setKey("types");
        taxtypeent.setValue(subadminname);
        taxtypeval.getEntries().add(taxtypeent);
        taxonomy.setValue(taxtypeval);

        SOAPMapEntry config = new SOAPMapEntry();
        config.setKey("config");
        SOAPStringMap configEntries = new SOAPStringMap();

        Entry selectionColor = new Entry();
        selectionColor.setKey("io.ox/dynamic-theme//selectionColor");
        selectionColor.setValue("#0000ff");

        Entry frameColor = new Entry();
        frameColor.setKey("io.ox/dynamic-theme//frameColor");
        frameColor.setValue("#ff0000");

        Entry iconColor = new Entry();
        iconColor.setKey("io.ox/dynamic-theme//iconColor");
        iconColor.setValue("#00ff00");

        configEntries.getEntries().add(selectionColor);
        configEntries.getEntries().add(frameColor);
        configEntries.getEntries().add(iconColor);
        config.setValue(configEntries);

        SOAPStringMapMap userattrs = new SOAPStringMapMap();
        userattrs.getEntries().add(taxonomy);
        userattrs.getEntries().add(config);


        ctx.setName(ctxname);
        ctx.setMaxQuota(10000l);
        ctx.setUserAttributes(userattrs);

        final String adminEmail = "oxadmin@example.com";
        final String ctxadmname = "oxadmin";
        final String ctxadmpw   = "secret";
        oxadmin.setName(ctxadmname);
        oxadmin.setPassword(ctxadmpw);
        oxadmin.setDisplayName("OX Admin");
        oxadmin.setSurName("OX");
        oxadmin.setGivenName("Admin");
        oxadmin.setPrimaryEmail(adminEmail);
        oxadmin.setEmail1(adminEmail);
        oxadmin.setDefaultSenderAddress(adminEmail);
        oxadmin.setLanguage("en_US");
        oxadmin.setTimezone("Europe/Berlin");

        try {
            ResellerContext ret = contextport.createModuleAccessByName(ctx, oxadmin, "groupware_premium", creds);
            System.out.println("created context with id=" + ret.getId());

            System.out.println("existing contexts:");
            List<ResellerContext> allctxs = contextport.listAll(creds);
            for(final ResellerContext c : allctxs) {
                System.out.println(c.getName() + " with id=" + c.getId());
            }

            System.in.read();

            System.out.println("deleting created context again");
            Delete del = new Delete();
            del.setAuth(creds);
            del.setCtx(ctx);
            contextport.delete(del);
        } catch (InvalidDataExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ContextExistsExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (DuplicateExtensionExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InvalidCredentialsExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (RemoteExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (StorageExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchContextExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (DatabaseUpdateExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

User creation

The client below utilizes all SOAP services we have created so far.

The essential parts of the code are

use OXResellerContextService to find out the ID of the context you want to create users
create users using OXResellerUserService
use one of the moduleaccess values as documented earlier
use setMailQuota from OXaaSService to set each users mail quota individually
use existsLogin from OXaaSService to check in advance of a login already exists

package com.openexchange.oxaas.myclient;

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.OXResellerContextService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.OXResellerContextServicePortType;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.ExistsLoginFaultException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.OXaaSService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.OXaaSService_Service;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.SetMailQuotaFaultException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.DatabaseUpdateExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.Delete;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.DuplicateExtensionExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.InvalidCredentialsExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.InvalidDataExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.NoSuchContextExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.NoSuchUserExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.OXResellerUserService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.OXResellerUserServicePortType;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.RemoteExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.StorageExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.soap.dataobjects.User;


/*
 * Example SOAP client for OXaaS OXResellerUserService
 * 
 * Create users in a context
 * 
 */
public class MyUserClientExample {

    private static final QName USER_SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com", "OXResellerUserService");
    private static final QName CONTEXT_SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com", "OXResellerContextService");
    private static final QName OXAAS_SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.oxaas.admin.openexchange.com/", "OXaaSService");

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String subadminname = "mysubadmin";
        final String subadminpw   = "secret";
        final String ctxadmname   = "oxadmin";
        final String ctxadmpw     = "secret";
        final String ctxname      = subadminname + "_myctx";
        
        Credentials creds = new Credentials();
        ResellerContext ctx = new ResellerContext();
        User auser = new User();

        OXResellerUserService userservice = new OXResellerUserService(OXResellerUserService.WSDL_LOCATION, USER_SERVICE_NAME);
        OXResellerUserServicePortType userport = userservice.getOXResellerUserServiceHttpSoap12Endpoint();
        OXResellerContextService contextservice = new OXResellerContextService(OXResellerContextService.WSDL_LOCATION, CONTEXT_SERVICE_NAME);
        OXResellerContextServicePortType contextport = contextservice.getOXResellerContextServiceHttpSoap11Endpoint();
        OXaaSService_Service oxaasservice = new OXaaSService_Service(OXaaSService_Service.WSDL_LOCATION, OXAAS_SERVICE_NAME);
        OXaaSService oxaasport = oxaasservice.getOXaaSServiceSOAP();  
        
        
        // We need to use the ResellerContextService SOAP client stub to retrieve the context id
        com.openexchange.oxaas.context.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials ctxCreds = new com.openexchange.oxaas.context.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials();
        com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext ctxCtx = new com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext();
        ctxCreds.setLogin(subadminname);
        ctxCreds.setPassword(subadminpw);
        ctxCtx.setName(ctxname);

        creds.setLogin(ctxadmname);
        creds.setPassword(ctxadmpw);

        final String userEmail = "auser@example.com";
        auser.setName("auser");
        auser.setPassword("secret");
        auser.setDisplayName("My User");
        auser.setSurName("My");
        auser.setGivenName("User");
        auser.setPrimaryEmail(userEmail);
        auser.setEmail1(userEmail);
        auser.setDefaultSenderAddress(userEmail);
        auser.setLanguage("en_US");
        auser.setTimezone("Europe/Berlin");

        try {
            // we only have the name of the context, so we need to retrieve its id, first using ResellerContextService
            com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext ctxRet = contextport.getData(ctxCtx, ctxCreds);
            ctx.setId(ctxRet.getId());

            // create the user via OXResellerUserService
            User ret = userport.createByModuleAccessName(ctx, auser, "groupware_premium", creds);
            System.out.println("created user with id=" + ret.getId());
            
            // set mail quota for that user using OXaaSService
            com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.Credentials oxaasCtxCreds = new com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.Credentials();
            oxaasCtxCreds.setLogin(ctxadmname);
            oxaasCtxCreds.setPassword(ctxadmpw);
            oxaasport.setMailQuota(ctxRet.getId(), ret.getId(), 1000l, oxaasCtxCreds);
            
            // check whether the login for the user has been created within my subadmin namespace
            // NOTE: this check should be used beforehand usually: check whether login exists and then create it if not
            com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.Credentials oxaasAdminCreds = new com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.Credentials();
            oxaasAdminCreds.setLogin(subadminname);
            oxaasAdminCreds.setPassword(subadminpw);
            if( oxaasport.existsLogin("auser", oxaasAdminCreds) ) {
                System.out.println("all ok, user login has been created");
            }
            
            System.in.read();
            
            System.out.println("deleting created user again");
            Delete del = new Delete();
            del.setAuth(creds);
            del.setCtx(ctx);
            del.setUser(ret);
            userport.delete(del);
        } catch (InvalidDataExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchContextExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (DuplicateExtensionExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (DatabaseUpdateExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InvalidCredentialsExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (RemoteExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (StorageExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchUserExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.InvalidDataExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.NoSuchContextExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.DuplicateExtensionExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.InvalidCredentialsExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.RemoteExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.StorageExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SetMailQuotaFaultException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ExistsLoginFaultException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

Email (alias) management

The next example shows how to manage email aliases and shared domains. The essential information is:

if you want to change the email address of a user, you have to add the new address to the list of aliases
when you want to change individual settings of a user, only send the changed settings

package com.openexchange.oxaas.myclient;

import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.OXResellerContextService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.OXResellerContextServicePortType;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.CreateSharedDomainFaultException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.OXaaSService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.OXaaSService_Service;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.Change;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.DatabaseUpdateExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.DuplicateExtensionExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.InvalidCredentialsExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.InvalidDataExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.NoSuchContextExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.NoSuchUserExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.OXResellerUserService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.OXResellerUserServicePortType;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.RemoteExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.StorageExceptionException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.user.soap.dataobjects.User;


/*
 * Example SOAP client for OXaaS OXResellerUserService
 * 
 * Create users in a context
 * 
 */
public class OXaaSAliasManagement {

    private static final QName USER_SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com", "OXResellerUserService");
    private static final QName CONTEXT_SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com", "OXResellerContextService");
    private static final QName OXAAS_SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.oxaas.admin.openexchange.com/", "OXaaSService");

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String subadminname = "mysubadmin";
        final String subadminpw   = "secret";
        final String ctxadmname   = "oxadmin";
        final String ctxadmpw     = "secret";
        final String userlogin    = "auser";
        final String ctxname      = subadminname + "_myctx";
        
        Credentials creds = new Credentials();
        ResellerContext ctx = new ResellerContext();

        OXResellerUserService userservice = new OXResellerUserService(OXResellerUserService.WSDL_LOCATION, USER_SERVICE_NAME);
        OXResellerUserServicePortType userport = userservice.getOXResellerUserServiceHttpSoap12Endpoint();
        OXResellerContextService contextservice = new OXResellerContextService(OXResellerContextService.WSDL_LOCATION, CONTEXT_SERVICE_NAME);
        OXResellerContextServicePortType contextport = contextservice.getOXResellerContextServiceHttpSoap11Endpoint();
        OXaaSService_Service oxaasservice = new OXaaSService_Service(OXaaSService_Service.WSDL_LOCATION, OXAAS_SERVICE_NAME);
        OXaaSService oxaasport = oxaasservice.getOXaaSServiceSOAP();  
        
        
        // We need to use the ResellerContextService SOAP client stub to retrieve the context id
        com.openexchange.oxaas.context.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials ctxCreds = new com.openexchange.oxaas.context.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials();
        com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext ctxCtx = new com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext();
        ctxCreds.setLogin(subadminname);
        ctxCreds.setPassword(subadminpw);
        ctxCtx.setName(ctxname);

        creds.setLogin(ctxadmname);
        creds.setPassword(ctxadmpw);

        try {
            // we only have the name of the context, so we need to retrieve its id, first using ResellerContextService
            com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext ctxRet = contextport.getData(ctxCtx, ctxCreds);
            ctx.setId(ctxRet.getId());

            /*
             * now we want to add an alias to the user "auser"
             */
            User auser = new User();
            auser.setName(userlogin);
            User ret = userport.getData(ctx, auser, creds);
            List<String> aliases = ret.getAliases();
            // list all mail aliases of that user
            System.out.println("User has the following alias(es):" + aliases);
            // now add another one
            aliases.add("sales@example.com");

            // we also want to add an alias within a shared domain
            com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.Credentials oxaasCtxCreds = new com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.Credentials();
            oxaasCtxCreds.setLogin(subadminname);
            oxaasCtxCreds.setPassword(subadminpw);
            /*
             * Note: we can run this method as often as we want, it will ONLY return an error in case we want to add a shared domain
             * that is already bound to another subadmin/customer
             */
            oxaasport.createSharedDomain("shared.net", oxaasCtxCreds);
            aliases.add("me@shared.net");
            
            // store changes
            // we need to created a clean user instance since we cannot just store back the returned user
            User changeduser = new User();
            changeduser.setId(ret.getId());
            changeduser.getAliases().addAll(aliases);
            Change change = new Change();
            change.setAuth(creds);
            change.setCtx(ctx);
            change.setUsrdata(changeduser);
            userport.change(change);
            
            // control the result
            ret = userport.getData(ctx, auser, creds);
            aliases = ret.getAliases();
            // list all mail aliases of that user
            System.out.println("User has the following alias(es):" + aliases);
            
            /*
             * now changing the users email address:
             * to do that, we have to do the following:
             * 1. add the new email address to the aliases, if not yet present
             * 2. change the email address in email1, defaultsenderaddress and primarymail
             * 
             */
            String newaddress = "boss@mydomain.com"; // introduce another domain, not shared
            changeduser = new User();
            changeduser.setId(ret.getId());
            changeduser.setEmail1(newaddress);
            //reuse change from above
            change.setUsrdata(changeduser);
            try {
                // this will throw an error since the new address is not in the aliases
                userport.change(change);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println("ERROR: " + e.getMessage());
            }

            // now add the new address to the aliases and try again
            aliases = ret.getAliases();
            aliases.add(newaddress);
            changeduser.getAliases().addAll(aliases);
            userport.change(change);

            // control the result
            ret = userport.getData(ctx, auser, creds);
            aliases = ret.getAliases();
            // list all mail aliases of that user
            System.out.println("User has the following alias(es):" + aliases);
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.InvalidDataExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.NoSuchContextExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.DuplicateExtensionExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.InvalidCredentialsExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.RemoteExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.StorageExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InvalidDataExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchContextExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (DuplicateExtensionExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (DatabaseUpdateExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InvalidCredentialsExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (RemoteExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchUserExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (StorageExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (CreateSharedDomainFaultException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

Catchall account management

The next example shows how to manage catchall accounts. Please take into account that this is not necessarily enabled for your account.

package com.openexchange.oxaas.myclient;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.OXResellerContextService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.context.OXResellerContextServicePortType;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.CreateDomainCatchallFaultException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.DeleteDomainCatchallFaultException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.DomainCatchall;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.ListDomainCatchallsFaultException;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.OXaaSService;
import com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.OXaaSService_Service;


/*
 * Example SOAP client for OXaaS OXResellerUserService
 * 
 * Create users in a context
 * 
 */
public class OXaaSCatchAllManagement {

    private static final QName CONTEXT_SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.reseller.admin.openexchange.com", "OXResellerContextService");
    private static final QName OXAAS_SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://soap.oxaas.admin.openexchange.com/", "OXaaSService");

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String subadminname = "mysubadmin";
        final String subadminpw   = "secret";
        final String userlogin    = "auser";
        final String ctxname      = subadminname + "_myctx";
        
        OXResellerContextService contextservice = new OXResellerContextService(OXResellerContextService.WSDL_LOCATION, CONTEXT_SERVICE_NAME);
        OXResellerContextServicePortType contextport = contextservice.getOXResellerContextServiceHttpSoap11Endpoint();
        OXaaSService_Service oxaasservice = new OXaaSService_Service(OXaaSService_Service.WSDL_LOCATION, OXAAS_SERVICE_NAME);
        OXaaSService oxaasport = oxaasservice.getOXaaSServiceSOAP();  
        
        
        // We need to use the ResellerContextService SOAP client stub to retrieve the context id
        com.openexchange.oxaas.context.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials ctxCreds = new com.openexchange.oxaas.context.rmi.dataobjects.Credentials();
        com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext ctxCtx = new com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext();
        ctxCreds.setLogin(subadminname);
        ctxCreds.setPassword(subadminpw);
        ctxCtx.setName(ctxname);

        try {
            // we only have the name of the context, so we need to retrieve its id, first using ResellerContextService
            com.openexchange.oxaas.context.reseller.soap.dataobjects.ResellerContext ctxRet = contextport.getData(ctxCtx, ctxCreds);

            com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.Credentials oxaasCtxCreds = new com.openexchange.oxaas.extra.Credentials();
            oxaasCtxCreds.setLogin(subadminname);
            oxaasCtxCreds.setPassword(subadminpw);
            
            /*
             * Note: this will throw an error
             * oxaas_catchall_domain capability not available for context XXX, user YYY in brand ZZZ
             * unless you have domain catchall in your contract
             */
            oxaasport.createDomainCatchall(ctxRet.getId(), "example.com", userlogin, oxaasCtxCreds);
            
            for(final DomainCatchall dc : oxaasport.listDomainCatchalls(ctxRet.getId(), oxaasCtxCreds) ) {
                System.out.println("Catchall account for domain " + dc.getDomain() + " is " + dc.getLogin());
            }
            
            // cleanup
            oxaasport.deleteDomainCatchall(ctxRet.getId(), "example.com", userlogin, oxaasCtxCreds);
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.InvalidDataExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.NoSuchContextExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.DuplicateExtensionExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.InvalidCredentialsExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.RemoteExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (com.openexchange.oxaas.context.StorageExceptionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ListDomainCatchallsFaultException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (DeleteDomainCatchallFaultException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (CreateDomainCatchallFaultException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

Perl

OXaas APS(1.2) package

Just download the APS package as mentioned here. When you extract the zip file, you will find the perl code within the directory scripts.

OXSOAP.pm: SOAP Wrapper functions
configure-alias.pl: Mail alias management
configure-catchall.pl: Catchall mail alias management
configure-mbox.pl: User management
configure.pl: Context management
verify-account.pl: check for login existence (existsLogin)
verify-catchall.pl: check for catchall existence
verify-shared.pl: shared mail alias checks

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OX as a Service Provisioning using SOAP

Tutorial: Provision OX as a Service using SOAP

Overview

Open-Xchange concept of Contexts

Open-Xchange concept of provisioning

oxadminmaster / root

Context admin

OX as a Service concept of provisioning

What is a brand?

OX as a Service specifics

Shared domains vs ordinary domains

Catchall accounts

User permissions

Provisioning

Reference implementation

Workflow

Subadmin credentials

WSDL files

Create a context

userAttributes

Admin User

Timezones

Languages

Create users

userAttributes

Workflow

Create the user in Open-Xchange

Set mail quota

Set OXaaS permissions

Explanation

Workflow

OXaaS specific methods

SOAP provisioning feature matrix

List of available capabilities (incomplete)

Code Examples

Java

Generating the SOAP client

Example Client

Context creation

User creation

Email (alias) management

Catchall account management

Perl

Standalone example: createOXaaSContext

Standalone example: createOXaaSUser

Standalone example: changeOXaaSUserPermissions

OXaas APS(1.2) package

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