HTTP API

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, 3^rd 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	The latest timestamp of the returned data (see Updates).
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.

Some error message contain data sizes which must be expressed in Bytes or Kilobytes etc., depending on the actual value. Since the unit must be translated, this conversion is performed by the client. Unfortunately, standard printf()-style formatting does not have a specifier for this kind of translation. Therefore, the conversion specification for sizes is the same as for normal strings, and the client has to determine which parameters to translate based on the error code. The current error codes and the corresponding size parameters are listed in Data size parameters

Data size parameters

Error code	Parameter indices
AJP-0006	1
AJP-0020	1, 2
CON-0101	2, 3
FLS-0003	1, 2, 3
MSG-0065	1, 3
MSG-0066	1
NON-0005	1, 2

Detailed Exception Data (Preliminary)

Starting with some upcoming version application errors will be returned in the field "exception" in a response. The exception field will contain a JSON array containing objects that have the format specified in the following table:

Exception Object

Name	Type	Value
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
message	String	Localized error message.
parameters	Array	Replacement parameters for the message. What are they good for if the message is already localized? -- Viktor Pracht - 2009-04-24
logMessage	String	Technical error message useful for debugging the problem.
exceptionId	String	Unique error identifier to help finding this error instance in the server logs.
help	String	Localized help text, telling the user how he may resolve the problem.
session	String	The session id of the session in which this exception was caused. When can this be not the current session? -- Viktor Pracht - 2009-04-24
user	Number	The id of the user having caused the exception. When can this be not the current user? -- Viktor Pracht - 2009-04-24
context	Number	The context id of the context in which the exception happened. When can this be not the current context? -- Viktor Pracht - 2009-04-24
details	Object	A JSON Object containing extra information for debugging purposes.
application	String	Application ID of the subsystem having thrown this exception.
stacktrace	Array	An array of Strings containing the error trace. Note: This can be turned off in the backend, in which case an empty array will be returned.

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)). Unless optional URL parameter timezone is present. Then 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 specified timezone and UTC at the time in question.

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 functionally equivalent to:

<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            (owner || 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.

Non-browser clients don't need to interpret HTML or JavaScript. The JSON data can be recognized by the outermost ({ and }), where the inner braces are part of the JSON value. For example, the regular expression \((\{.*\})\) captures the entire JSON value in its first capturing group.

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.

Common object data

This table contains common fields which apply for any module's data type and is referenced throughout this document whenever a module's data type is described.

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	String	String containing comma separated the categories. 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.
102	color_label	Number	Color number used by Outlook to label the object. The assignment of colors to numbers is arbitrary and specified by the client. The numbers are integer numbers between 1 and 10 (inclusive). Not present in folder objects.
103	number_of_links	Number	Number of links. deprecated
104	number_of_attachments	Number	Number of attachments
105	lastModifiedOfNewestAttachmentUTC	Time	Date and time of the newest attachment written with UTC time zone.

Module "login"

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

Login

POST /ajax/login?action=login

Parameters:

• name – The login name.
• password – The password.
• authId (optional) – Identifier for tracing every single login request passed between different systems in a cluster. The value should be some token that is unique for every login request. This parameter must be given as URL parameter and not inside the body of the POST request.
• client (optional) – Identifier of the client using the HTTP/JSON interface. This is for statistic evaluations what clients are used with Open-Xchange.
• version (optional) – Used version of the HTTP/JSON interface client.

Response: A JSON object containing the session ID used for all subsequent requests. Additionally a random token is contained to be used for the Easy Login method.

Logout

GET /ajax/login?action=logout

Parameters:

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

Refresh secret cookie (since 6.18.2)

GET /ajax/login?action=refreshSecret

Parameters:

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

Refresh auto-login cookie

GET /ajax/login?action=store

Parameters:

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

Redirect

GET /ajax/login?action=redirect

Parameters:

• random – A session random token to jump into the session. This random token is part of the login response. Only a very short configurable time after the login it is allowed to jump into the session with the random token.
• uiWebPath (optional) – The optional path on the webserver to the UI. If this parameter is not given the configured uiWebPath is used.

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 – A string containing GUI-specific settings (currently, it is a huge JSON object).
  • fastgui - A string containing GUI-specific settings. This is a JSON object that must be kept small for performance.
  • context_id - the unique identifier of the context (read-only, added 2008-01-28).
  • cookielifetime - the cookie life time in seconds or -1 for session cookie (read-only, added 2010-11-16).
  • 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.
  • availableTimeZones – a JSON object containing all available time zones. The key is the time zone identifier and the value contains its name in users language. (read-only, added 2010-07-08/v6.18).
  • calendarnotification - send a mail notification for appointments (deprecated since 2008-12-11)
  • tasknotification - send a mail notification for tasks (deprecated since 2008-12-11)
  • reloadTimes - Selectable times for GUI reload
  • serverVersion - Version string of the server.
  • currentTime - User timezone specific long of the current server time.
  • maxUploadIdleTimeout - Timeout after that idle uploads are deleted.
  • 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 (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • addresses – all email addresses of the user including the primary address (read-only, deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • defaultaddress – primary email address of the user (read-only, deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • sendaddress – one email address out of the addresses list that are email sent with. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • folder/ – the standard email folders (read-only, deprecated 2008-04-29)
      • inbox – identifier of the folder that gets all incoming mails (read-only, deprecated 2008-04-29)
      • drafts – identifier of the folder with the mail drafts (read-only, deprecated 2008-04-29)
      • trash – identifier of the folder with the deleted mails (read-only, deprecated 2008-04-29)
      • spam – identifier of the folder with the spam mails (read-only, deprecated 2008-04-29)
      • sent – identifier of the folder with the sent mails (read-only, deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • htmlinline – activate inlining of HTML attachments. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • colorquote – color quoted lines. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • emoticons – display emoticons as graphics. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • harddelete – delete emails at once. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • inlineforward – forward messages as inline or attachment. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • vcard – attach vcard when sending mails. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • notifyonreadack – notify on read acknowledgement. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • msgpreview – show a message preview. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • ignorereplytext (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • nocopytosent – don't put a copy to the sent folder when sending mails. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
    • spambutton - Spam Button should be displayed in GUI or not. (deprecated 2008-04-29)
  • participants
    • autoSearch - If a search for all users, groups and resources when participant selection dialog is opened. (read-only, added 2008-10-09/SP5)
    • maximumNumberParticipants – Defines the maximum number of participants for appointments and tasks. (read-only, added 2008-10-20/SP5)
    • showWithoutEmail - If external participants without email should be shown.
    • showDialog – Enables participant selection dialog for appointments and tasks. (read-only, added 2008-04-30/SP4)
  • availableModules – Contains a JSON array listing all enabled modules for a user. GUI loads Plugins through this list. To get your plugin listed here, create a subtree below modules/ without a module subelement or with a subelement containing true (read-only, added 2008-02-25)
  • minimumSearchCharacters – Minimum number of characters a search pattern must have to prevent large responses and slow queries. (read-only, added 2008-10-20/SP5)
  • modules
    • portal
      • gui GUI settings for portal module
      • module
    • mail
      • addresses – all email addresses of the user including the primary address (read-only, added 2008-02-25)
      • appendmailtext – (added 2008-02-25)
      • allowhtmlimages – Alters default setting whether external images contained in HTML content are allowed or not (added 2008-05-27)
      • colorquoted – color quoted lines (added 2008-02-25)
      • contactCollectFolder – contact folder id to save mail addresses from sent mails (added 2008-10-16)
      • contactCollectEnabled – switch contact collection on/off (added 2008-10-16)
      • contactCollectOnMailAccess – enables/disables contact collection for incoming mails. Default is true. (added 2009-09-24)
      • contactCollectOnMailTransport – enables/disables contact collection for outgoing mails. Default is true. (added 2009-09-24)
      • defaultaddress – primary email address of the user (read-only, added 2008-02-25)
      • deletemail – delete emails or move to trash (added 2008-02-25)
      • emoticons – display emoticons as graphics (added 2008-02-25)
      • defaultFolder
        • drafts – identifier of the folder with the mail drafts (read-only, added 2008-02-25)
        • inbox – identifier of the folder that gets all incoming mails (read-only, added 2008-02-25)
        • sent – identifier of the folder with the sent mails (read-only, added 2008-02-25)
        • spam – identifier of the folder with the spam mails (read-only, added 2008-02-25)
        • trash – identifier of the folder with the deleted mails (read-only, added 2008-02-25)
      • forwardmessage – forward messages as inline or attachment (added 2008-02-25)
      • gui GUI settings for mail module
      • inlineattachments – activate inlining of HTML attachments (added 2008-02-25)
      • linewrap – (added 2008-02-25)
      • module – if mail module is enabled or not (added 2008-02-25)
      • phishingheaders – header(s) identifying phishing headers (added 2008-05-27)
      • replyallcc – put all recipients on reply all into CC (added 2008-12-16/SP5)
      • sendaddress – one email address out of the addresses list that are email sent with (added 2008-02-25)
      • spambutton – Spam Button should be displayed in GUI or not (added 2008-02-25)
      • vcard – attach vcard when sending mails (added 2008-02-25)
    • calendar
      • calendar_conflict
      • calendar_freebusy
      • calendar_teamview
      • gui GUI settings for the calendar module
      • module
      • notifyNewModifiedDeleted receive mail notification for new, modified or deleted appointments (added 2008-12-11/SP5)
      • notifyAcceptedDeclinedAsCreator receive mail notification for accepted or declined appointments created by the user (added 2008-12-11/SP5)
      • notifyAcceptedDeclinedAsParticipant receive mail notification for accepted or declined appointments that the user participates (added 2008-12-11/SP5)
      • defaultStatusPrivate Default status for new appointments in private folders, where the user is participant. This does not affect appointments created by this user, which always have the status "accepted". The status are described in User participant object. Default is 0:none (added 2009-07-20/6.12)
      • defaultStatusPublic Default status for new appointments in public folders, where the user is participant. This does not affect appointments created by this user, which always have the status "accepted". The status are described in User participant object. Default is 0:none (added 2009-07-20/6.12)
    • contacts
      • gui GUI settings for the contacts module
      • mailAddressAutoSearch – Define if a search is triggered when the recipient selection dialog is opened or the folder is changed. (read-only, added 2008-10-20/SP5)
      • module True if the contact module is enabled for the current user, false otherwise.
      • singleFolderSearch – True if the current user is allowed to search for contacts only in a single folder. False if contact searches across all folders are allowed. (read-only, added 2009-02-04/SP5 U1)
      • characterSearch – True if the side bar for searching for contacts by a start letter should be displayed. False if the side bar should be hidden. (read-only, added 2009-05-29/6.10)
      • allFoldersForAutoComplete – true if an auto complete search may omit the folder identifier array and search for contacts in all readable folders. This is configured through the contact.properties configuration file. (read-only, added 2010-07-22/v6.18.0)
    • tasks
      • gui GUI settings for the tasks module
      • module
      • delegate_tasks
      • notifyNewModifiedDeleted receive mail notification for new, modified or deleted tasks (added 2008-12-11/SP5)
      • notifyAcceptedDeclinedAsCreator receive mail notification for accepted or declined tasks created by the user (added 2008-12-11/SP5)
      • notifyAcceptedDeclinedAsParticipant receive mail notification for accepted or declined taks that the user participates (added 2008-12-11/SP5)
    • infostore
      • gui GUI settings for the infostore module
      • module
    • interfaces
      • ical
      • vcard
      • syncml
    • folder
      • gui UI settings for the folder tree
      • public_folders
      • read_create_shared_folders
      • tree – Selected folder tree, the user wants to use. Currents trees are 0 for the known OX folder tree and 1 for the new virtual folder tree. (added 2010-04-09/6.18)
    • com.openexchange.extras
      • module – Extras link in the configuration (read only, added 2008-04-29)
    • com.openexchange.user.passwordchange
      • module – Will load Plug-In which allows to change the Password within the users configuration (read only, added 2008-07-09)
    • com.openexchange.user.personaldata
      • module – Will load Plug-In which allows to edit personal contact information within the users configuration (read only, added 2008-07-09)
    • com.openexchange.group
      • enabled – Specifies whether the user is allowed to edit groups and loads the corresponding Plug-In. (read only, added 2008-08-08)
    • com.openexchange.resource
      • enabled – Specifies whether the user is allowed to edit resources and loads the corresponding Plug-In. (read only, added 2008-08-08)
    • com.openexchange.publish
      • enabled – Specifies whether the user is allowed to publish items. (read only, added 2009-05-27)
    • com.openexchange.subscribe
      • enabled – Specifies whether the user is allowed to subscribe sources. (read only, added 2009-05-27)

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 folder data and Detailed folder data.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

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 folder 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.
6	last_modified_utc	Timestamp	Timestamp of the last modification. Note that the type is Timestamp, not Time. See #Date and time for details. (added 2008-10-17, with SP5, temporary workaround)
20	folder_id	String	Object ID of the parent folder.

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; e.g. "tasks", "calendar", "contacts", "infostore", or "mail"
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.
306	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.
313	capabilities	Number	Bit mask containing information about mail folder capabilites, as described in capabilities.
314	subscribed	Boolean	Indicates whether this folder should appear in folder tree or not.
315	subscr_subflds	Boolean	Indicates whether subfolders should appear in folder tree or not.
316	standard_folder_type	Number	Indicates the default folder type. Zero for non-default folder. See Standard folder types
3010	com.openexchange.publish.publicationFlag	Boolean	Indicates whether this folder is published. Read Only, provided by the com.openexchange.publish plugin, since 6.14.
3020	com.openexchange.subscribe.subscriptionFlag	Boolean	Indicates whether this folder has subscriptions storing their content in this folder. Read Only, provided by the com.openexchange.subscribe plugin, since 6.14.
3030	com.openexchange.folderstoragee.displayName	String	Provides the display of the folder's owner. Read Only, Since 6.20.

Permission flags

Bits	Value
0-6	Folder permissions: 0 No permissions. 1 See the folder. 2 Create objects in the folder. 4 Create subfolders. 64 All permissions. This is currently the same as "Create subfolders" but in the future additional permissions may be added that will be given to the user when using this value. The values are scalars and not bit sets. Any other than the described values should not be used. If they are used expect an exception from the backend. Every value automatically contains the access rights covered by lower values.
7-13	Read permissions for objects in the folder: 0 No permissions. 1 Read only own objects. 2 Read all objects. 64 All permissions. This is currently the same as "Read all objects" but in the future additional permissions may be added that will be given to the user when using this value. The values are scalars and not bit sets. Any other than the described values should not be used. If they are used expect an exception from the backend. Every value automatically contains the access rights covered by lower values.
14-20	Write permissions for objects in the folder: 0 No permissions. 1 Modify only own objects. 2 Modify all objects. 64 All permissions. This is currently the same as "Modify all objects" but in the future additional permissions may be added that will be given to the user when using this value. The values are scalars and not bit sets. Any other than the described values should not be used. If they are used expect an exception from the backend. Every value automatically contains the access rights covered by lower values.
21-27	Delete permissions for objects in the folder: 0 No permissions. 1 Delete only own objects. 2 Delete all objects. 64 All permissions. This is currently the same as "Delete all objects" but in the future additional permissions may be added that will be given to the user when using this value. The values are scalars and not bit sets. Any other than the described values should not be used. If they are used expect an exception from the backend. Every value automatically contains the access rights covered by lower values.
28	Admin flag: 0 No permissions. 1 Every operation modifying the folder in some way requires this permission. This are e.g. changing the folder name, modifying the permissions, deleting or moving the folder.

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.

Capabilities

Bit	Description
0	Mailing system supports permissions.
1	Mailing system supports ordering mails by their thread reference.
2	Mailing system supports quota restrictions.
3	Mailing system supports sorting.
4	Mailing system supports folder subscription.

Standard Folder Types

Bit	Description
0	No default folder.
1	Task.
2	Calendar.
3	Contact.
7	Inbox.
8	Infostore.
9	Drafts.
10	Sent.
11	Spam.
12	Trash.

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 folder data and Detailed folder data.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

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 folder data and Detailed folder data.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

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 folder data and Detailed folder data.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

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.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

Response with timestamp: An object containing all data of the requested folder. The fields of the object are listed in Common folder data and Detailed folder data. The field id is 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.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

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

Create a folder

PUT /ajax/folders?action=new

Parameters:

• folder_id – The parent folder of the newly created folder
• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

Request body: Folder object as described in Common folder data and Detailed folder data. The field id should not be present.

Provided that permission is granted to create a folder, its module is bound to the limitation, that the new folder's module must be equal to parent folder's module except that:

• Parent folder is one of the system folders private, public, or shared. Below these folders task, calendar, and contact modules are permitted.
• Parent folder's module is one of task, calendar, or contact. Below this kind of folders task, calendar, and contact modules are permitted.

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.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

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

Response: An array with object IDs of folders that were not deleted. There may be a lot of different causes for a not deleted folder: A folder has been modified in the mean time, The user does not have the permission to delete it or those permissions have just been removed. The folder does not exist. Etc.

Clearing a folder's content

PUT /ajax/folders?action=clear

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• tree – (Preliminary) The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• allowed_modules – (Preliminary) An array of modules (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks,calendar,contacts,mail") allowed by requesting client. If missing, all available modules are considered.

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.

Get all visible folder of a certain module (Preliminary)

PUT /ajax/folders?action=allVisible

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• tree – The identifier of the folder tree. If missing '0' (primary folder tree) is assumed.
• content_type – The desired content type (either numbers or strings; e.g. "tasks", "calendar", "contacts", "mail")
• 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 folder data and Detailed folder data.

Request body: None

Response with timestamp: A JSON object containing three fields: "private", "public, and "shared". Each field is a JSON array with data for all folders. Each folder is itself described by an array.

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 or Time	Specifies when to notify the participants as the number of minutes before the start of the appointment (-1 for "no alarm"). For tasks, the Time value specifies the absolute time when the user should be notified.
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
210	change_exceptions	Array	An array of Dates, representing all change exceptions of a sequence.
211	delete_exceptions	Array	An array of Dates, representing all delete exceptions of a sequence.
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	Inclusive 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. Note: since this is a Date, the entire day after the midnight specified by the value is included.
217	notification	Boolean	If true, all participants are notified of any changes to this object. This flag is valid for the current change only, i. e. it is not stored in the database and is never sent by the server to the client.
220	participants	Array	Each element identifies a participant, user, group or booked resource as described in participant table.
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.
222	occurrences	Number	Specifies how often a recurrence should appear. May be present only if recurrence_type > 0.
223	uid	String	Can only be written when the object is created. Internal and external globally unique identifier of the appointment. Is used to recognize appointments within iCal files. If this attribute is not written it contains an automatic generated UUID. Not implemented for tasks.
224	organizer	String	Contains the email address of the appointment organizer which is not necessarily an internal user. Not implemented for tasks.
225	sequence	Number	iCal sequence number. Not implemented for tasks. Must be incremented on update. Will be incremented by the server, if not set.
226	confirmations	Array	Each element represents a confirming participant as described in confirming participant. This can be internal and external user. Not implemented for tasks.

Participant identifier

Name	Type	Value
id	Number	User ID
type	Number	Type of participant: 1 user 2 user group 3 resource 4 resource group 5 external user
mail	String	mail address of an external participant

User participant object

Name	Type	Value
id	Number	User ID. Confirming for other users only works for appointments and not for tasks.
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

Confirming participant

Name	Type	Value
type	Number	Type of participant: 1 user 5 external user
mail	String	email address of external participant
display_name	String	display name of external participant
status	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	Date	Deprecated. Only present in AJAX interface. Value will not be stored on OX server.
305	billing_information
307	target_costs
308	target_duration
309	priority	Number	1 = LOW, 2 = MEDIUM, 3 = HIGH
312	currency
313	trip_meter
314	companies
315	date_completed

Get a list of tasks

PUT /ajax/tasks?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 tasks are defined in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed task data.

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 (mandatory - should be set to "deleted") (deprecated) – 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.
• folder – Object ID of the task's folder.

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.
• folder – Folder Identifier through that the task is accessed. This is necessary for checking the permissions.
• 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: A json objekt with attribute 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”.

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.

Search for tasks

PUT /ajax/tasks?action=search

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 appointments 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.

Request Body: A JSON object with attributes described in Search tasks

Search tasks

Name	Type	Value
pattern	String	Search pattern to find tasks. In the pattern, the character "*" matches zero or more characters and the character "?" matches exactly one character. All other characters match only themselves.
folder	Number	(optional) Defines the folder to search for tasks in. If this is omitted in all task folders will be searched.
start	Date or Time	(optional) Inclusive start date for a time range the tasks should end in. If start is omitted end is ignored.
end	Date or Time	(optional) Exclusive end date for a time range the tasks should end in. If this parameter is omitted the time range has an open end.

Response with timestamp: An array with matching tasks. Tasks are represented by arrays. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

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	Displayed name	Name	Type	Value
500	Display name	display_name	String
501	Given name	first_name	String	First name.
502	Sur name	last_name	String	Last name.
503	Middle name	second_name	String
504	Suffix	suffix	String
505	Title	title	String
506	Street home	street_home	String
507	Postal code home	postal_code_home	String
508	City home	city_home	String
509	State home	state_home	String
510	Country home	country_home	String
511	Birthday	birthday	Date
512	Martial status	marital_status	String
513	Number of children	number_of_children	String
514	Profession	profession	String
515	Nickname	nickname	String
516	Spouse name	spouse_name	String
517	Anniversay	anniversary	Date
518	Note	note	String
519	Department	department	String
520	Position	position	String
521	Employee type	employee_type	String
522	Room number	room_number	String
523	Street business	street_business	String
525	Postal code business	postal_code_business	String
526	City business	city_business	String
527	State business	state_business	String
528	Country business	country_business	String
529	Number of employee	number_of_employees	String
530	Sales volume	sales_volume	String
531	Tax id	tax_id	String
532	Commercial register	commercial_register	String
533	Branches	branches	String
534	Business category	business_category	String
535	Info	info	String
536	Manager's name	manager_name	String
537	Assistant's name	assistant_name	String
538	Street other	street_other	String
539	City other	city_other	String
540	Postal code other	postal_code_other	String
541	Country other	country_other	String
542	Telephone business 1	telephone_business1	String
543	Telephone business 2	telephone_business2	String
544	FAX business	fax_business	String
545	Telephone callback	telephone_callback	String
546	Telephone car	telephone_car	String
547	Telephone company	telephone_company	String
548	Telephone home 1	telephone_home1	String
549	Telephone home 2	telephone_home2	String
550	FAX home	fax_home	String
551	Cellular telephone 1	cellular_telephone1	String
552	Cellular telephone 2	cellular_telephone2	String
553	Telephone other	telephone_other	String
554	FAX other	fax_other	String
555	Email 1	email1	String
556	Email 2	email2	String
557	Email 3	email3	String
558	URL	url	String
559	Telephone ISDN	telephone_isdn	String
560	Telephone pager	telephone_pager	String
561	Telephone primary	telephone_primary	String
562	Telephone radio	telephone_radio	String
563	Telephone telex	telephone_telex	String
564	Telephone TTY/TDD	telephone_ttytdd	String
565	Instantmessenger 1	instant_messenger1	String
566	Instantmessenger 2	instant_messenger2	String
567	Telephone IP	telephone_ip	String
568	Telephone assostant	telephone_assistant	String
569	Company	company	String
570		image1	String
571	Dynamic Field 1	userfield01	String
572	Dynamic Field 2	userfield02	String
573	Dynamic Field 3	userfield03	String
574	Dynamic Field 4	userfield04	String
575	Dynamic Field 5	userfield05	String
576	Dynamic Field 6	userfield06	String
577	Dynamic Field 7	userfield07	String
578	Dynamic Field 8	userfield08	String
579	Dynamic Field 9	userfield09	String
580	Dynamic Field 10	userfield10	String
581	Dynamic Field 11	userfield11	String
582	Dynamic Field 12	userfield12	String
583	Dynamic Field 13	userfield13	String
584	Dynamic Field 14	userfield14	String
585	Dynamic Field 15	userfield15	String
586	Dynamic Field 16	userfield16	String
587	Dynamic Field 17	userfield17	String
588	Dynamic Field 18	userfield18	String
589	Dynamic Field 19	userfield19	String
590	Dynamic Field 20	userfield20	String	Contains a UUID if one was assigned (after 6.18.2)
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. deprecated
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.
594	Number of distributionlists	number_of_distribution_list	Number
595		number_of_links	Number	deprecated
596		number_of_images	Number
597		image_last_modified	Timestamp
598	State other	state_other	String
599		file_as	String
601		image1_content_type	String
602		mark_as_distributionlist	Boolean
605	Default address	default_address	Number
606		image1_url	String
524		internal_userid	Number
608		useCount	Number	In case of sorting purposes the column 609 is also available, which places global address book contacts at the beginning of the result. If 609 is used, the order direction (ASC, DESC) is ignored.

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	Object ID of the member's contact if the member is an existing contact.
display_name	String	Display 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 objects. Each object contains fields “id” and “folder” 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 a list of users

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=listuser

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 id

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.

Available with SP4

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 (mandatory - should be set to "deleted") (deprecated) – 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.
• folder – Object ID of the contact's folder.

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.

Get contact by user ID

GET /ajax/contacts?action=getuser

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – User ID (not Object ID) of the requested user.

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.

Available with SP4 package.

Update a contact

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=update

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• folder – Folder identifier through that the contact is accessed. This is necessary for checking the permissions.
• 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.

To remove some contact image send the image attribute set to null.

To change or add some contact image the PUT command must be replaced with a POST command and all data must be provided within a multipart/form-data body. The normal request body must be placed into a form field named json while the image file must be placed in a file field named file. The response is then an HTML page as described in section File uploads.

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: A json objekt with attribute id of the newly created contact.

To add some contact image the PUT command must be replaced with a POST command and all data must be provided within a multipart/form-data body. The normal request body must be placed into a form field named json while the image file must be placed in a file field named file. The response is then an HTML page as described in section File uploads.

Delete contacts

PUT /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”.

Search contacts

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=search

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• columns – The requested fields
• 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. In case of use of column 609 (use count depending order for collected contacts with global address book) the parameter "order" ist NOT necessary and will be ignored.
• 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.

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. If this field is present, the pattern is matched against the contact field which is specified by the property contact_first_letter_field on the server (default: last name). Otherwise, the pattern is matched against the display name.
folder	Array of Number	If a list of folder identifiers or at least a single folder identifier is given, only in that folders will be searched for contacts. This paramenter is optional but searching in all contact folders that are viewable and where objects can be read in is more expensive on that database than searching in a dedicated number of them. The possibility to provide here an array of folder identifier has been added with 6.10.

Alternative request body: An Object as described in Search contacts alternative.

Search contacts alternative

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.
email1	String	Searches contacts where the email1 address match with the given search pattern. (requires version >= 6.12)
email2	String	Searches contacts where the email2 address match with the given search pattern. (requires version >= 6.12)
email3	String	Searches contacts where the email3 address match with the given search pattern. (requires version >= 6.12)
company	String	Searches contacts where the company match with the given search pattern. (requires version >= 6.12)
categories	String	Searches contacts where the categories match with the given search pattern.
orSearch	Boolean	If set to true, the fields are connected through an OR search habit.
emailAutoComplete	Boolean	If set to true, results are guaranteed to contain at least one email adress and the search is performed by connecting the relevant fields through an OR search habit.

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.

Associate two contacts (Since 6.18.1, Preliminary)

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=associate

Parameters:

• uuid1: The UUID of the first contact (not needed if you use folder and id instead)
• folder1: ID of the folder the first contact is in (not needed if you use UUID)
• id1: ID of the first contact (not needed if you use UUID)
• uuid2: The UUID of the second contact (not needed if you use folder and id instead)
• folder2: ID of the folder the second contact is in (not needed if you use UUID)
• id2: ID of the second contact (not needed if you use UUID)

Response: None.

Dissociate two contacts (Since 6.18.1, Preliminary)

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=dissociate

Parameters:

• uuid1: The UUID of the first contact (not needed if you use folder and id instead)
• folder1: ID of the folder the first contact is in (not needed if you use UUID)
• id1: ID of the first contact (not needed if you use UUID)
• uuid2: The UUID of the second contact (not needed if you use folder and id instead)
• folder2: ID of the folder the second contact is in (not needed if you use UUID)
• id2: ID of the second contact (not needed if you use UUID)

Response: None.

Get associated contacts of a contact (Since 6.18.1, Preliminary)

GET /ajax/contacts?action=getAssociated

Parameters:

• uuid: The UUID of this contact (not needed if you use folder and id instead)
• folder: ID of the folder the contact is in (not needed if you use UUID)
• id: ID of the contact (not needed if you use UUID)

Response: A JSON response with the data field containing an array with the UUID of every associated contact.

Get association status of two contacts (Since 6.18.1, Preliminary)

GET /ajax/contacts?action=getAssociation

• uuid1: The UUID of the first contact (not needed if you use folder and id instead)
• folder1: ID of the folder the first contact is in (not needed if you use UUID)
• id1: ID of the first contact (not needed if you use UUID)
• uuid2: The UUID of the second contact (not needed if you use folder and id instead)
• folder2: ID of the folder the second contact is in (not needed if you use UUID)
• id2: ID of the second contact (not needed if you use UUID)

Response: A JSON response with the data field containing the status as integer meaning the following:

• 1: not referring to the same person
• 2: the two contacts represent the same person
• 3: contacts have never been explicitly associated or dissociated

Get contact by uuid (Since 6.18.1, Preliminary)

GET /ajax/contacts?action=getByUuid

• uuid: The UUID of this contact (not needed if you use folder and id instead)
• folder: ID of the folder the contact is in (not needed if you use UUID)
• id: ID of the contact (not needed if you use UUID)

Response: A JSON response with the data field containing the full contact data of every single associated contact.

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 start on or after this date are returned.
• end – Upper exclusive limit of the queried range as a Date. Only appointments which end before this date are returned.
• recurrence_master – Extract the recurrence to several appointments. The default value is false so every appointment of the recurrence will be calculated.
• showPrivate (optional) – only works in shared folders: When enabled, shows private appointments of the folder owner. Such appointments are anonymized by stripping away all information except start date, end date and recurrence information (since 6.18)

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
206	recurrence_id	Number	Object ID of the entire appointment sequence. Present on series and change exception appointments. Equals to object identifier on series appointment and is different to object identifier on change exceptions.
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
408	timezone	String	Timezone
410	recurrence_start	Date	Start of a sequence without time
	ignore_conflicts	Boolean	Ignore soft conflicts for the new or modified appointment. This flag is valid for the current change only, i. e. it is not stored in the database and is never sent by the server to the client.

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. Each entry in the array corresponds with one day in the range that was queried, explaining whether there is an appointment on this day or not.

Get a list of appointments

PUT /ajax/calendar?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 appointments are defined in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed appointment data.
• recurrence_master – Extract the recurrence to several appointments. The default value is false so every appointment of the recurrence will be calculated.

Request body: An array with full object IDs (folder, id and optionally either recurrence_position or recurrence_date_position) of requested appointments.

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 (mandatory - should be set to "deleted") (deprecated) – Which kinds of updates should be ignored. Currently, the only valid value – "deleted" – causes deleted object IDs not to be returned.
• recurrence_master – Extract the recurrence to several appointments. The default value is false so every appointment of the recurrence will be calculated.
• showPrivate (optional) – only works in shared folders: When enabled, shows private appointments of the folder owner. Such appointments are anonymized by stripping away all information except start date, end date and recurrence information (since 6.18)

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.
• folder – Folder ID of the requested appointment.
• recurrence_position (optional) – Recurrence Position 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.
• folder - Object ID of the appointment's folder.
• 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: If the appointment was created successfully, an object with the attribute id of the newly created appointment. If the appointment could not be created due to conflicts, the response body is an object with the field conflicts, which is an array of appointment objects which caused the conflict. Each appointment object which represents a resource conflict contains an additional field hard_conflict with the Boolean value true. If the user does not have read access to a conflicting appointment, only the fields id, start_date, end_date, shown_as and participants are present and the field participants contains only the participants which caused the conflict.

Delete appointments

PUT /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.

Confirm appointment

PUT /ajax/calendar?action=confirm

Parameters:

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

Request body: An object with the fields "confirmation", "confirmmessage" and "id" (optional) 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.

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 (1 for users, 3 for resources)
• 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
folder_id	String	Folder ID. Only set, if the user has the right to see the object. (added 2009-08-18/6.12)
full_time	Boolean	True if the appointment is a whole day appointment, not present otherwise.

Search appointments

PUT /ajax/appointments?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 appointments.

Search appointments

Name	Type	Value
pattern	String	Search pattern to find appointments. 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 appointments with the given starting letter.

Request body: An Object as described in Search appointments.

Response: An array with appointment 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 new appointments

GET /ajax/appointments?action=newappointments

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• columns – The requested fields
• 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.
• sort (optional) – The identifier of a column which determines the sort order of the response. 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.
• limit – limits the number of returned object to the given value.

Response: 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.

Resolve UID

GET /ajax/calendar?action=resolveuid

Parameters

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• uid – The UID to be resolved.

Response: An object object with the field "id" containing the ox-object id, if existing, an error message 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.

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
102	color_label	Number	Color number used by Outlook to label the object. The assignment of colors to numbers is arbitrary and specified by the client. The numbers are integer numbers between 1 and 10 (inclusive).
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 256 forwarded 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
615	msg_ref	String	Message reference on reply/forward.
651	flag_seen	String	Special field to sort mails by seen status
652	account_name	String	Message's account name.
	user	Array	An array with user-defined flags as strings.
	headers	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.

Search mails

PUT /ajax/mail?action=search

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.

Request Body: A JSON array of JSON objects each containing the search field and its search pattern: e.g.: [{"col": 612, "pattern": "Joe"}, {"col": 614, "pattern": "Tuesday"}] Supported values for col are 603 to 607 (from, to, cc, bcc and subject) and -1 for full text 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.

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.
• headers - (preliminary) A comma-separated list of header names. Each name requests denoted header from each mail

Request body: An array with one object for each requested mail. Each object contains the fields folder and id.

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 followed by requested headers.

Copy mails

PUT /ajax/mail?action=copy

Parameters:

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

Request Body: A JSON object containing the id of the destination folder inside the "folder_id" field: e.g.: {"folder_id": 1376}

Response: A JSON array containing the ID of the copied mail

Move mails

PUT /ajax/mail?action=update

Parameters:

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

Request Body: A JSON object containing the id of the destination folder inside the "folder_id" field: e.g.: {"folder_id": 1376}

Response: A JSON array containing the ID of the moved mail

Update mails

PUT /ajax/mail?action=update

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – Object ID of the requested mail.
• message_id – (Preliminary) The value of "Message-Id" header of the requested mail. This parameter is a substitute for "id" parameter.
• folder – Object ID of the folder.

Note: If neither parameter "id" nor parameter "message_id" is specified, all folder's messages are updated accordingly. Available with v6.20.

Request Body: A JSON object which carries the new values that ought to be applied to mail as described in Update mail or Update mail extended (available with SP6 v6.10).

Response: A JSON object containing the Object ID of the updated mail and its folder.

Update mail

Name	Type	Value
color_label	Number	The color number between 1 and 10.
flags	Number	A set of flags to add or remove. Note: Flags for "recent" (8) and "user" (64) are ignored.
value	Boolean	true to add the flags specified by flags (logical OR), false to remove them (logical AND with the inverted value).

Update mail extended (available with SP6 v6.10)

Name	Type	Value
set_flags	Number	A set of flags to add. Note: Flags for "recent" (8) and "user" (64) are ignored.
clear_flags	Number	A set of flags to remove. Note: Flags for "recent" (8) and "user" (64) are ignored.

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.
• message_id – (Preliminary) The value of "Message-Id" header of the requested mail. This parameter is a substitute for "id" parameter.
• folder – Object ID of the mail's folder.
• 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.
• view (optional - available with SP4) - "raw" returns the content as it is, meaning no preparation are performed and thus no guarantee for safe contents is given (available with SP6 v6.10). "text" forces the server to deliver a text-only version of the requested mail's body, even if content is HTML. "html" to allow a possible HTML mail body being transferred as it is (but white-list filter applied). "noimg" to allow a possible HTML content being transferred but without original image src attributes which references external images: Can be used to prevent loading external linked images (spam privacy protection). NOTE: if set, the corresponding gui config setting will be ignored.
• unseen (optional) – "1" or "true" to leave an unseen mail as unseen although its content is requested

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.
• folder – The folder identifier.
• id – Object ID of the mail which contains the attachment.
• attachment – ID of the requested attachment OR
• cid – Value of header 'Content-ID' of the requested attachment
• save – 1 overwrites the defined mimetype for this attachment to force the download dialog, otherwise 0.
• filter (optional) – 1 to apply HTML white-list filter rules if and only if requested attachment is of MIME type text/htm* AND parameter save is set to 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.

Get multiple mail attachments as a ZIP file (preliminary)

GET /ajax/mail?action=zip_attachments

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• folder – The folder identifier.
• id – Object ID of the mail which contains the attachments.
• attachment – A comma-separated list of IDs of the requested attachments

Response body: The raw byte data of the ZIP file.

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 a mail requires 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

Attach data sources

Moreover the JSON representation may contain data sources which should be appended as file attachments to the mail. Then the mail contains the "datasources" key which is expected to be a JSON array of data source descriptions.

A data source description follows the conversion specification.

For example to attach a file through an URL the field looks like this (available with v6.18.2):

{
 "from": "someone@somewhere.com,
 ...
 "datasources"
 [
  {
   "identifier": "com.openexchange.url.mail.attachment",
   "args":
    {
     "url": <url-string>,
     "timeout": <optional-timeout-millis-int, default is 2500msec>,
     "contentType": <optional-content-type-string>,
     "charset": <optional-charset-string>,
     "size": <optional-size-int>,
     "disposition": <optional-disposition-string>,
     "fileName": <optional-file-name-string>,
    }
  }
 ]
}

Response: Object ID of the newly created mail.

Send/Save mail as MIME data block (RFC822) (added in SP5)

PUT /ajax/mail?action=new

Parameters:

• session - A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• folder (optional) - In case the mail should not be sent out, but saved in a specific folder, the "folder" parameter can be used. If the mail should be sent out to the recipient, the "folder" parameter must not be included and the mail is stored in the folder "Sent Items". Example "folder=default.INBOX/Testfolder"
• flags (optional) - In case the mail should be stored with status "read" (e.g. mail has been read already in the client inbox), the parameter "flags" has to be included. If no "folder" parameter is specified, this parameter must not be included. For infos about mail flags see Detailed mail data spec.

Request Body: The MIME Data Block

Response: Object ID of the newly created/moved mail.

Import of mails as MIME data block (RFC822) (added with 6.18)

This request can be used to store a single or a lot of mails in the OX mail storage backend. This action should be used instead of action=new because it is faster and tolerant to 8bit encoded emails.

POST /ajax/mail?action=import

Parameters:

• session - A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• folder - For the import this parameter is required to specify the folder into that the emails should be imported. Example "folder=default.INBOX/Testfolder"
• flags (optional) - In case the mail should be stored with status "read" (e.g. mail has been read already in the client inbox), the parameter "flags" has to be included. For infos about mail flags see Detailed mail data spec.

Request Body: A multipart/form-data with a single or multiple file parts each having a different name and containing the RFC822 encoded email as binary data like in a file upload.

Response: A JSON object containing the folder identifier and the object identifier of the imported mail or a JSON array of those JSON objects if multiple mails are imported.

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.
• view (optional - available with SP6) - "text" forces the server to deliver a text-only version of the requested mail's body, even if content is HTML. "html" to allow a possible HTML mail body being transferred as it is (but white-list filter applied).NOTE: if set, the corresponding gui config setting will be ignored.

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.

Clear mail folder(s)

PUT /ajax/mail?action=clear

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 IDs of the mail folders to clear

Response: An array with IDs of mail folder that could not be cleared; meaning the response body is an empty JSON array if everything went well.

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: A group object as described in Group data.

List groups

PUT /ajax/group?action=list

Parameters:

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

Request body: An array with group identifiers.

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

Search for groups

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 Group search.

Group 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 with timestamp: An array of group objects as described in Group data.

Group data

Name	Type	Value
id	Number	ID
display_name	String	Display name
name	String	Name with character restrictions
members	Array	The array contains identifier of users that are member of the group.

Create a group

introduced 2008-06-12

PUT /ajax/group?action=new

Parameters:

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

Request body: Group object as described in Group data. The field id is not present.

Response: A json objekt with attribute id of the newly created group.

Delete a group

introduced 2008-06-12

PUT /ajax/group?action=delete

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the group to delete.

Request body: An object with the field “id” containing the unique identifier of the group.

Response: An empty json array if the group was deleted successfully.

Change a group

introduced 2008-06-12

PUT /ajax/group?action=update

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – Object ID of the group to update.
• timestamp – Time stamp of the group to update. If the group was modified after the specified time stamp, then the update must fail.

Request body: Group object as described in Group data. Only modified fields are present and the field id is omitted.

Get updates (since v6.18.1)

introduced 2010-09-13

GET /ajax/group?action=updates

Parameters:

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

Response with timestamp: An array with new, modified and deleted groups. New, modified and deleted groups are represented by JSON objects as described in Group data.

Module "resource"

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

Get all resources

GET /ajax/resource?action=all

Parameters:

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

Response: An array of resource identifier.

List resources

PUT /ajax/resource?action=list

Parameters:

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

Request body: An array with resources ids.

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

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

Create a resource

PUT /ajax/resource?action=new

Parameters:

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

Request body: Resource object as described in Resource response. The field id is not present.

Response: An object with attribute id of the newly created resource.

Delete a resource

PUT /ajax/resource?action=delete

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• timestamp – Timestamp of the last update of the resource to delete.

Request body: An object with the field “id” containing the unique identifier of the resource.

Response: An empty json array if the resource was deleted successfully.

Change a resource

PUT /ajax/resource?action=update

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – Object ID of the resource to update.
• timestamp – Time stamp of the resource to update. If the resource was modified after the specified time stamp, then the update must fail.

Request body: Resource object as described in Resource response. Only modified fields are present and the field id is omitted.

Get updates (since v6.18.1)

introduced 2010-09-13

GET /ajax/resource?action=updates

Parameters:

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

Response with timestamp: An array with new, modified and deleted resources. New, modified and deleted resources are represented by JSON objects as described in Resource response.

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. Not yet implemented, so this is currently always empty.
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. . Note: This is not writeable
711	number_of_versions	Number	The number of all versions of the infoitem. Note: This is not writeable.

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.
• folder – Object ID of the infoitem's folder.
• 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: The 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

PUT /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 [[]].

Response: An array with objects to delete. The fields for the object are described in Full identifier for an infostore document.

Full identifier for an infostore document

Name	Type	Value
id	Number	Object ID
folder	Number	Folder ID

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" (deprecated)

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
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
servertime	Time	The time on the server
user_id	Number	The ID of the user.
last_modified	Time	The last modification timestamp of the reminder
recurrence_position	Number	The recurrence position for series appointments or 0 if no series
folder	Number	The ID of the folder through that the object can be read

Delete Reminder

PUT /ajax/reminder?action=delete

Parameters:

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

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

Response body: An JSON array with the id that was not deleted.

Remind again (since v6.18.1)

PUT /ajax/reminder?action=remindAgain

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – The ID of the reminder whose date shall be changed.

Request body: The JSON representation of the reminder; mainly containing the field “alarm” which provides the new reminder date.
E.g. { "alarm": 1283418027381 }

Response body: The JSON representation of the updated reminder.

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: A "multipart/form-data" encoded .CSV file. The field name for the file is "file". The column titles of the table are those used within the OX, see column Displayed Name in #DetailedContactData.

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 with Windows' default encoding Windows-1252. The column titles of the table may be those used by the English, French or German 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.
• suppressNotification – This optional parameter can be used to disable the notifications for new appointments that are imported through the given iCal file. This help keeping the Inbox clean if a lot of appointments need to be imported. The value of this parameter does not matter because only for the existence of the parameter is checked.

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, and warnings (under the key "warnings") containing an Array of objects with the warning data, containing all customary error fields.

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 Calendar 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.

Module "mailfilter"

The module mailfilter descriptes how to add, update or delete mail filter rules or to check which actions are supported by the underlying system.

A detailed description can be found here Mail Filter HTTP API

Module "ajax file upload"

This module offers to store files in server's dedicated download directory for a configureable amount of time. The files are then accessible for further operations like inline images in (html) mails

Uploading a file

POST /ajax/file?action=new

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• module – The module for which the file is uploaded to determine proper upload quota constraints (e.g. "mail", "infostore", etc.).
• type – The file type filter to define which file types are allowed during upload. Currently supported filters are: file=all, text=text/*, media=image OR audio OR video, image=image/*, audio=audio/*, video=video/*, application=application/*

Request body: A common POST request body of MIME type "multipart/*" which holds the file(s) to upload

Response: A JSON array containing the IDs of the uploaded files. The files are accessible through the returned IDs for future use.

Updating a file's last access timestamp (keep alive)

By updating the last access timestamp it's prevented from being deleted from both session and disk storage.

GET /ajax/file?action=keepalive

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – The ID of the uploaded file whose timestamp should be updated

Response: The string "null" in response's data element

Requesting a formerly uploaded file

GET /ajax/file?action=get

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – The ID of the uploaded file

Response: The content of the requested file is directly written into output stream

Module "image"

This module allows to download images from Open-Xchange server without providing a session ID in request's URL parameters.

Requesting an image

GET /ajax/image

Parameters:

• uid – The unique ID referring to the desired image

Response: The content of the requested image is directly written into output stream

Module "conversion" (preliminary)

A generic module to request data from a data source and to process obtained/submitted data with a data handler. Thus data is converted from a data source by a data handler.

Converting data

PUT /ajax/conversion?action=convert
or
POST /ajax/conversion?action=convert

Parameters: <no parameters required>

Request body: A conversion request JSON object containing nested JSON objects for data source and data handler

Conversion request object

Field	Type	Description
datasource	JSON object	The data source object.
datahandler	JSON object	The data handler object.

Data source object

Field	Type	Description
identifier	String	The identifier of the data source.
args	JSON array or JSON object	The optional name-value-pairs as a single JSON object or a JSON object for each kept inside a JSON array for data source

Data handler object

Field	Type	Description
identifier	String	The identifier of the data handler.
args	JSON array or JSON object	The optional name-value-pairs as a single JSON object or a JSON object for each kept inside a JSON array for data handler

Response: The result of converted data ready as an appropriate JSON response

Saving an ICal email attachment

If an ICal file is attached to an email, its content can be saved as appointments and tasks into given calendar and task folder. If the fields "com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.confirmstatus" and "com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.confirmmessage" are set, the data handler inserts the appointment with the given status for the user, if the appointment does not exist. If it is already existing, the handler just updates the participant status.

Data source's JSON object
{
 "identifier":"com.openexchange.mail.ical"
 "args":
  [
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.fullname":"<folder-fullname>"},
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.mailid":"<mail-id>"},
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.sequenceid":"<attachment-sequence-id>"}
  ]
}


Data handler's JSON object
{
 "identifier":"com.openexchange.ical"
 "args":
  [
   {"com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.folder":"<calendar-folder-id>"},
   {"com.openexchange.groupware.task.folder":"<task-folder-id>"},
   {"com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.confirmstatus":"<status>"},
   {"com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.confirmmessage":"<message>"}
  ]
}


Response: A JSON array of JSON objects each providing folder and object ID of added appointment/task; e.g. [{"folder_id":2567, "id":7689}, ...]

Converting an ICal email attachment into JSON objects

If an ICal file is attached to an email, its content can converted to JSON appointments and tasks.

Data source's JSON object
{
 "identifier":"com.openexchange.mail.ical"
 "args":
  [
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.fullname":"<folder-fullname>"}
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.mailid":"<mail-id>"}
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.sequenceid":"<attachment-sequence-id>"}
  ]
}


Data handler's JSON object.
Note that all arguments are optional: Default is user time zone and zero recurrence position
"com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.searchobject" triggers a search for the uid, and replaces the object_id and folder_id with the data of the corresponding ox-object id, if existing. The returned objects are still the ical objects and NOT the ox-objects.
{
 "identifier":"com.openexchange.ical.json"
 "args":
  [
   {"com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.timezone":"<timezone-id>"}
   {"com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.recurrencePosition":"<recurrence-position>"}
   {"com.openexchange.groupware.calendar.searchobject":"<true|false>"}
  ]
}


Response: A JSON array of JSON objects for each appointment/task as described in Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data and Detailed task data/ Detailed appointment data

Saving a VCard email attachment

If a VCard file is attached to an email, its content can be saved as contacts into given contact folder.

Data source's JSON object
{
 "identifier":"com.openexchange.mail.vcard"
 "args":
  [
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.fullname":"<folder-fullname>"}
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.mailid":"<mail-id>"}
   {"com.openexchange.mail.conversion.sequenceid":"<attachment-sequence-id>"}
  ]
}


Data handler's JSON object
{
 "identifier":"com.openexchange.contact"
 "args":
  [
   {"com.openexchange.groupware.contact.folder":"<contact-folder-id>"}
  ]
}


Response: A JSON array of JSON objects each providing folder and object ID of added contact; e.g. [{"folder_id":2567, "id":7689}, ...]

Contact(s) attached to a new email as a VCard file

Obtain VCard data from specified contact object(s).

Data source's JSON object
{
 "identifier":"com.openexchange.contact"
 "args":
  [
   {"folder":"<folder-id1>","id":"<id1>"}
   ...
   {"folder":"<folder-idn>","id":"<idn>"}
  ]
}


Get a new email's JSON object with specified VCard data source attached.

Data handler's JSON object
{
 "identifier":"com.openexchange.mail.vcard"
 "args":[]
}


Response: A mail JSON object.

Module "search" (preliminary)

The search module is an enhancement to each search request as an optional JSON object via PUT method to filter elements; e.g.

PUT /ajax/contacts?action=all&...

{"filter":{search-term-object}}

This section describes the syntax of the optional JSON object representing the search term.
In general the structure of a search term is in prefix notation; meaning the operator is written before its operands:

{"operation":"equals","operands":[...]}

Moreover there are two different types of a search terms:

• A single search term
• A composite search term

A single search term reflects an operation which cannot hold nested search terms as operands; e.g. "equals". In opposite to this a composite search term holds one or more nested search terms as operands; e.g. "not" or the logical junctors "and"/"or".

By now the following operations are supported:

• composite operations
  • "and" - The AND junctor
  • "or" - The OR junctor
  • "not" - Negation
• single operations
  • "equals" - Equals comparison
  • "lt" - Less-than comparison
  • "gt" - Greater-than comparison

Furthermore following operand types are supported for single search terms:

• Column - Providing a name referring to a field/column
• Constant - A constant

Example of an EQUALS search term:
{"operation":"equals","operands":[{"type":"column","value":"first_name"},"Jane"]}

Example of an OR search term:
{"operation":"or","operands":
 [
  {"operation":"equals","operands":[{"type":"column","value":"first_name"},"Jane"]},
  {"operation":"gt","operands":[{"type":"column","value":"birthday"},"1975-05-01"]}
 ]
}


Refer to object data tables introduced by different modules to know which field names are supported; e.g. for tasks it is Common object data, Detailed task and appointment data, and Detailed task data.

Module "mail account" (available with v6.12)

The mail account module is used to manage multiple mail accounts held by a user.

Get All mail accounts

GET /ajax/account?action=all

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 mail account's are defined in mail account data.

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

Get a mail account

GET /ajax/account?action=get

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – The ID of the account to return.

Response: A JSON object representing the desired mail account. See mail account data.

Mail account data

ID	Name	Type	Value
1001	id	Number	Account ID
1002	login	String	The login.
1003	password	String	The (optional) password.
1004	mail_url	String	The mail server URL; e.g. "imap://imap.somewhere.com:143". URL is preferred over single fields (like mail_server, mail_port, etc.)
1005	transport_url	String	The transport server URL; e.g. "smtp://smtp.somewhere.com:25". URL is preferred over single fields (like transport_server, transport_port, etc.)
1006	name	String	Account's display name.
1007	primary_address	String	User's primary address in account; e.g. "someone@somewhere.com"
1008	spam_handler	String	The name of the spam handler used by account.
1009	trash	String	The name of the default trash folder.
1010	sent	String	The name of the default sent folder.
1011	drafts	String	The name of the default drafts folder.
1012	spam	String	The name of the default spam folder.
1013	confirmed_spam	String	The name of the default confirmed-spam folder.
1014	confirmed_ham	String	The name of the default confirmed-ham folder.
1015	mail_server	String	The mail server's hostname or IP address.
1016	mail_port	Number	The mail server's port.
1017	mail_protocol	String	The mail server's protocol. Always use basic protocol name. E.g. use "imap" instead of "imaps"
1018	mail_secure	Boolean	Whether to establish a secure connection to mail server (SSL, TLS).
1019	transport_server	String	The transport server's hostname or IP address.
1020	transport_port	Number	The transport server's port.
1021	transport_protocol	String	The transport server's protocol. Always use basic protocol name. E.g. use "smtp" instead of "smtps"
1022	transport_secure	Boolean	Whether to establish a secure connection to transport server (SSL, TLS).
1023	transport_login	String	The transport login. If empty "login" is taken as transport login as well.
1024	transport_password	String	The transport password. If empty "password" is taken as transport password as well.
1025	unified_inbox_enabled	Boolean	If enabled for Unified INBOX
1026	trash_fullname	String	Path to default trash folder. Preferred over "trash"
1027	sent_fullname	String	Path to default sent folder. Preferred over "sent"
1028	drafts_fullname	String	Path to default drafts folder. Preferred over "drafts"
1029	spam_fullname	String	Path to default spam folder. Preferred over "spam"
1030	confirmed_spam_fullname	String	Path to default confirmed-spam folder. Preferred over "confirmed_spam"
1031	confirmed_ham_fullname	String	Path to default confirmed-ham folder. Preferred over "confirmed_ham"
1032	pop3_refresh_rate	Number	The interval in minutes the POP3 account is refreshed
1033	pop3_expunge_on_quit	Boolean	Whether POP3 messages shall be deleted on actual POP3 account after retrieval or not
1034	pop3_delete_write_through	Boolean	If option "pop3_expunge_on_quit" is disabled, this property defines whether a delete in local INBOX also deletes affected message in actual POP3 account
1035	pop3_storage	String	The name of POP3 storage provider, default is "mailaccount"
1036	pop3_path	String	Path to POP3's virtual root folder in storage, default is name of the POP3 account beside default folders
1037	personal	String	The customizable personal part of email address

Create a new mail account

PUT /ajax/account?action=new

Parameters:

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

Request: A JSON object describing the new account to create. See mail account data.

Response: A JSON object representing the inserted mail account. See mail account data.

Update a mail account

PUT /ajax/account?action=update

Parameters:

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

Request: A JSON object identifiying (field ID is present) and describing the account to update. See mail account data.

Response: A JSON object representing the updated mail account. See mail account data.

Delete a mail account

PUT /ajax/account?action=delete

Parameters:

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

Request body: An array with the ID of the mail account to delete.

Validate a mail account (which shall be created)

PUT /ajax/account?action=validate

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• tree - An optional boolean parameter which indicates whether on successful validation the folder tree shall be returned (NULL on failure) or if set to "false" or missing only a boolean is returned which indicates validation result

Request: A JSON object describing the new account to validate. See mail account data.

Response: Dependent on optional "tree" parameter a JSON folder object or a boolean value indicating the validation result

The JSON folder object corresponding to Common folder data and Detailed folder data. Additionally a field "subfolder_array" is added which contains possible subfolders. This field is missing if a folder contains no subfolders.

Module "user" (available with v6.14)

The user module is used to access user information.

Get all users

GET /ajax/user?action=all

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 users are defined in Common object data, Detailed contact data and Detailed user 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 user data. Each array element describes one user and is itself an array. The elements of each array contain the information specified by the corresponding identifiers in the columns parameter.

Detailed user data

ID	Displayed name	Name	Type	Value
610	Aliases	aliases	Array	The user's aliases
611	Time zone	timezone	String	The time zone ID.
612	Locale	locale	String	The name of user's entire locale, with the language, country and variant separated by underbars. E.g. "en", "de_DE"
613	Groups	groups	Array	The IDs of user's groups
614	Contact ID	contact_id	Number	The contact ID of the user
615	Login info	login_info	String	The user's login information

Get a list of users

PUT /ajax/user?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 users are defined in Common object data, Detailed contact data and Detailed user data.

Request body: An array of numbers. Each number is the ID of requested user. Since v6.18.1, a null value in the array is interpreted as the currently logged in user.

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

Get a user

GET /ajax/user?action=get

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – Object ID of the requested user. Since v6.18.1, this parameter is optional: the default is the currently logged in user.

Response with timestamp: An object containing all data of the requested user. The fields of the object are listed in Common object data, Detailed contact data and Detailed user data.

Update a user

PUT /ajax/user?action=update

Parameters:

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

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

Note: "timezone" and "locale" are the only fields from Detailed user data which are allowed to be updated.

Response with timestamp: An empty object.

Search users

PUT /ajax/user?action=search

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• columns – The requested fields
• 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. In case of use of column 609 (use count depending order for collected users with global address book) the parameter "order" ist NOT necessary and will be ignored.
• 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.

Request body: An Object as described in Search users.

Search users

Name	Type	Value
pattern	String	Search pattern to find users. 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 users with the given startletter. If this field is present, the pattern is matched against the user field which is specified by the property contact_first_letter_field on the server (default: last name). Otherwise, the pattern is matched against the display name.

Alternative request body: An Object as described in Search users alternative.

Search users alternative

Name	Type	Value
last_name	String	Searches users where the last name match with the given last name.
first_name	String	Searches users where the first name match with the given first name.
display_name	String	Searches users where the display name match with the given display name.
orSearch	Boolean	If set to true, the fields are connected through an OR search habit.
emailAutoComplete	Boolean	If set to true, results are guaranteed to contain at least one email adress and the search is performed by connecting the relevant fields through an OR search habit.

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

Get user attribute (available with v6.20)

GET /ajax/user?action=getAttribute

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – ID of the user.
• name – The attribute name.

Response without timestamp: A JSON object providing name and value of the requested attribute

 { "name":"somename", "value":"somevalue"}

Set user attribute (available with v6.20)

PUT /ajax/user?action=setAttribute

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – ID of the user.
• setIfAbsent - Set to "true" to put the value only if the specified name is not already associated with a value, otherwise "false" to put value in any case

Request body: A JSON object providing name and value of the attribute. If the "value" field id missing or NULL, the attribute is removed.

 { "name":"somename", "value":"somevalue"}

Response: The boolean value "true" if PUT was successful; otherwise "false"

Module "OAuth" (available with v6.20)

The OAuth module is used to manage multiple OAuth accounts for certian online services for a user. The OAuth mechanism allows the Open-Xchange application to act as behalf of this user using previously obtained access tokens granted by user.

The OAuth interface is divided into two parts: Account access and service's meta data access.

OAuth account access

The OAuth service account access description.

Get all OAuth accounts

GET /ajax/oauth/account?action=all

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• serviceId – The optional service meta data identifier. If missing all accounts of all services are returned; otherwise all accounts of specified service are returned

Response: An array with account data. Each array element is a JSON object describing an OAuth account as specified in OAuth account data.

Get an OAuth account

GET /ajax/oauth/account?action=get

Parameters:

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

Response: A JSON object describing an OAuth account as specified in OAuth account data.

OAuth account

Field	Type	Description
id	Number	The numeric identifier of the OAuth account.
displayName	String	The account display name
serviceId	String	The identifier of the associated service meta data; e.g. "com.openexchange.oauth.twitter"
token	String	The token
secret	String	The token secret

Delete an OAuth account

PUT /ajax/oauth/account?action=delete

Parameters:

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

Response: The boolean value "true" if successful

Update an OAuth account

PUT /ajax/oauth/account?action=update

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – The account identifier. May also be provided in request body's JSON OAuth account representation by "id" field.

Request body: A JSON object providing the OAuth account fields to update. See OAuth account data. Currently the only values which make sende being updated are "displayName" and the "token"-"secret"-pair.

Response: The boolean value "true" if successful

Initialize creation of an OAuth account

GET /ajax/oauth/account?action=init

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• serviceId – The service meta data identifier; e.g. "com.openexchange.oauth.twitter"

Response: An JSON representation of the resulting interaction providing needed information to complete account creation. See OAuth interaction data.

OAuth interaction

Field	Type	Description
authUrl	String	The numeric identifier of the OAuth account.
type	String	The interaction type name; "outOfBand" or "callback"
token	String	The token
uuid	String	The UUID for this OAuth interaction

Create an OAuth account

Note: This action is typically called by provided call-back URL and is ony intended for manual invocation if "outOfBand" interaction is returned by preceeding /ajax/oauth/account?action=init step.

PUT /ajax/oauth/account?action=create

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module
• oauth_token – The request token from preceeding OAuth interaction
• uuid – The UUID of the preceeding OAuth interaction
• oauth_verfifier – The verifier string which confirms that user granted access
• displayName – The display name for the new account

Response: A JSON object describing the newly created OAuth account as specified in OAuth account data.

OAuth service meta data access

The OAuth service meta data access description.

Get all OAuth services' meta data

GET /ajax/oauth/account?action=all

Parameters:

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

Response: An array with service data. Each array element is a JSON object describing an OAuth service's meta data as specified in OAuth service meta data.

Get an OAuth service's meta data

GET /ajax/oauth/account?action=get

Parameters:

• session – A session ID previously obtained from the login module.
• id – The service's identifier.

Response: A JSON object describing an OAuth service's meta data as specified in OAuth service meta data.

OAuth service meta data

Field	Type	Description
id	Number	The numeric identifier of the OAuth account.
displayName	String	The account display name