msnp-wiki/docs/services/sharingservice/deletemember.md

Introduction

DeleteMember is one of the SOAP actions the Contact Sharing Service provides.

Deletes a user from the Allow List (AL), Block List (BL), or the Pending List (PL).

Client/Request

The template used in this action is described on the Address Book Service main page.

DeleteMember

This element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: Is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

serviceHandle

This element contains three children:

• <Id>: This is always set to 0.
• <Type>: The type of this member:
  • Messenger: This is a Messenger contact.
  • Profile: This is your profile.
• <ForeignId>: If <Type> is Profile, this should be MyProfile, otherwise leave empty but do not convert to an empty element.

memberships

This element only contains <Membership> elements.

Membership

This element contains two children:

• <MemberRole>: The type of list:
  • Allow: The Allow List (AL).
  • Block: The Block List (BL).
  • Pending: The Pending List (RL).
  • ProfileExpression: Your profile.
• <Members>: Explained below.

Members

This element only contains <Member> elements.

Member

This element has two attributes:

• xsi:type: The type of this <Member>:
  • PassportMember
  • EmailMember
  • PhoneMember
  • RoleMember: Only valid for ProfileExpression.
• xmlns:xsi: This is always set to http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance.

This element contains three children:

• <Type>: The type of this <Member>:
  • Passport
  • Email
  • Phone
• <MembershipId>: The ID of the membership you would like to delete.
• <State>: This is usually only set to Accepted, but Pending is a valid value.
• <Deleted>: Should this member be deleted? (Only set to true in UpdateMember?)

This element may instead contain one of the following mutually exclusive children instead of <MembershipId>:

1. <PassportName>: The user handle associated with this membership.
2. <Email>: The e-mail address associated with this membership.
3. <PhoneNumber>: The phone number associated with this membership.

This element also contains the following children IF the role is set to ProfileExpression:

• <Id>: Always Allow.
• <DefiningService>: Contains the following:
  • <Id>: Always 0.
  • <Type>: Always Messenger.
  • <ForeignId>: Always empty content, but not an empty element.
• <MaxRoleRecursionDepth>: Always 0.
• <MaxDegreesSeparationDepth>: Always 0.

Server/Response

The template used in this action is described on the Address Book Service main page.

DeleteMemberResponse

This empty element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: Is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

Examples

Client/Request

POST /abservice/SharingService.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/DeleteMember
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1435

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
		xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
		xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>
		<soap:Header>
				<ABApplicationHeader
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<ApplicationID>996CDE1E-AA53-4477-B943-2BE802EA6166</ApplicationID>
						<IsMigration>false</IsMigration>
						<PartnerScenario>Timer</PartnerScenario>
				</ABApplicationHeader>
				<ABAuthHeader
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<ManagedGroupRequest>false</ManagedGroupRequest>
						<TicketToken>t=ticket&amp;p=profile</TicketToken>
				</ABAuthHeader>
		</soap:Header>
		<soap:Body>
				<DeleteMember
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<serviceHandle>
								<Id>0</Id>
								<Id>Messenger</Id>
								<ForeignId></ForeignId>
						</serviceHandle>
						<memberships>
							<Membership>
								<MemberRole>Allow</MemberRole>
								<Members>
									<Member
										xsi:type="PassportMember"
									>
											<Type>Passport</Type>
											<State>Accepted</State>
											<PassportName>anotheruser@hotmail.com</PassportName>
									</Member>
								</Members>
							</Membership>
						</memberships>
				</AddMember>
		</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 771

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
		xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>
		<soap:Header>
				<ServiceHeader
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<Version>12.01.1111.0000</Version>
						<CacheKey>12r1;MjAyNC0xMS0xOVQxNzo0ODowOS44MDNa</CacheKey>
						<CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
						<PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
						<SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
				</ServiceHeader>
		</soap:Header>
		<soap:Body>
				<DeleteMemberResponse
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				/>
		</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>