msnp-wiki/docs/services/abservice/abgroupadd.md

Introduction

ABGroupAdd is one of the SOAP actions the Address Book Service provides.

Creates a contact group.

Client/Request

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

ABGroupAdd

This element has only one attribute:

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

abId

This element contains your Address Book Service GUID.

groupAddOptions

This element has only one child:

• <fRenameOnMsgrConflict>: Should this group be renamed if it conflicts with a group that already exists in the Messenger Service (true or false)?

groupInfo

This element only contains the <GroupInfo> element.

GroupInfo

This element contains four children:

• <name>: The name of the group.
• <groupType>: The GUID type of group:
  • C8529CE2-6EAD-434d-881F-341E17DB3FF8: A contact group.
• <fMessenger>: Unknown purpose (true or false).

annotations

This element only contains one or multiple <Annotation> element(s).

Annotation

This element only has two children:

• <Name>: The key of this annotation.
• <Value>: The value of this annotation.

Usually only used to set MSN.IM.Display to 1.

Server/Response

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

ABGroupAddResponse

This element has only one attribute:

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

ABGroupAddResult

This element only contains the <guid> element.

guid

This element only contains the GUID of the newly created group.

Examples

Client/Request

POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABGroupAdd
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1486

<?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>GroupSave</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>
				<ABGroupAdd
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
						<groupAddOptions>
								<fRenameOnMsgrConflict>false</fRenameOnMsgrConflict>
						</groupAddOptions>
						<groupInfo>
								<GroupInfo>
									<name>Friends</name>
									<groupType>C8529CE2-6EAD-434d-881F-341E17DB3FF8</groupType>
									<fMessenger>false</fMessenger>
									<annotations>
										<Annotation>
											<Name>MSN.IM.Display</Name>
											<Value>1</Value>
										</Annotation>
									</annotations>
								</GroupInfo>
						</groupInfo>
				</ABGroupAdd>
		</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 903

<?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;MjAyNC0xMS0xOVQxNzo1NTo1Ni45NDla</CacheKey>
						<CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
						<PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
						<SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
				</ServiceHeader>
		</soap:Header>
		<soap:Body>
				<ABGroupAddResponse
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<ABGroupAddResult>
								<guid>f60efbe7-94af-4b16-b926-e4e10878d329</guid>
						</ABGroupAddResult>
				</ABGroupAddResponse>
		</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>