[dev] Interacting with the horde RPC/SOAP interface

[Markus Meyer]

Hi everyone,

I asked the question below 5 days ago and got no answer. Please tell me
what I'm doing wrong. Is this the wrong list to ask? Should I provide
more/other information?

Hoping for some information...


Markus


Markus Meyer schrieb:
> Hi everyone,
>
> first thanks for Horde which works very well for me.
>
> I'm asking because I'm trying to communicate with Horde through the RPC
> interface. As a first exercise I wanted to write a small script which
> downloads all Horde calendars to my local hard disk. This way, I can
> look at my calendars in, say, Mozilla Sunbird even if I lose Internet
> connectivity.
>
> I'm using the version of Horde which comes with the last version 8.1.0
> of the "Plesk" server administration tool. This means I'm using Imp H3
> (4.1.3) and Kronolith H3 (2.1.3), if this makes sense.
>
> The idea was to call the "calendar.listCalendars" method which would
> return a list of calendars I have access to, then export those calendars
> using "calendar.exportCalendar". However, when I call
> "calendar.listCalendars", an empty array is returned. I'm using the
> SOAPpy module for python on the client and the XML SOAP exchange looks
> as follows:
>
> *** Outgoing SOAP ******************************************************
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
> xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">
> <SOAP-ENV:Body>
> <ns1:calendar.listCalendars xmlns:ns1="urn:horde" SOAP-ENC:root="1">
> <owneronly xsi:type="xsd:boolean">False</owneronly>
> <permission xsi:type="xsd:int">2</permission>
> </ns1:calendar.listCalendars>
> </SOAP-ENV:Body>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> ************************************************************************
> *** Incoming SOAP ******************************************************
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope 
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
>  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>  xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>  xmlns:ns4="urn:horde"
>  SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
> <SOAP-ENV:Body>
>
> <ns4:calendar.listCalendarsResponse>
> <output xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array" SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:string[1]"
> xsi:nil="true"/></ns4:calendar.listCalendarsResponse>
> </SOAP-ENV:Body>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> ************************************************************************
>
> I tried to debug this on the server side by listing the content of the
> $calendars variable to the system log in function
> Kronolith::listCalendars(). Interestingly enough, the variable
> $calendars contains all my calendars on return of the function
> Kronolith::listCalendars(). Still the information does not seem to make
> it through into the XML.
>
> I'm pretty sure I have the right permissions because I can actually
> download the calendars (see below).
>
> To check if I can download a calendar, I found out the id of my calendar
> and called "calendar.exportCalendar(id, 'text/calendar')". This indeed
> returns my whole calendar as a vcalendar file inside some XML. But when
> SOAPpy tries to parse this, it says that it isn't well-formed XML. This
> is apparently because the XML contains special chars (like umlauts)
> which are not in UTF-8 (though the <?xml> comment says so). Apparently
> Horde store my umlauts in another encoding but fails to convert those to
> UTF-8 when embedding them in the XML.
>
> Thanks for any help/pointers.
>
>
> Markus
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