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

Introduction

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

Changes information about a contact group.

Client/Request

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

ABGroupUpdate

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.

groups

This element only contains <Group> elements

Group

This element contains three children:

• <groupId>: The GUID of the group to modify.
• <groupInfo>: Explained below.
• <propertiesChanged>: A space delimited list of changes made in <groupInfo>:
  • GroupName

groupInfo

This element contains only one child:

• <name>: The new name of the group.

Server/Response

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

ABGroupUpdateResponse

This empty element has only one attribute:

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

Examples

Client/Request

POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABGroupUpdate
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1276

<?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>
				<ABGroupUpdate
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
						<groups>
								<Group>
										<groupId>f60efbe7-94af-4b16-b926-e4e10878d329</groupId>
										<groupInfo>
											<name>Other People</name>
										</groupInfo>
										<propertiesChanged>GroupName </propertiesChanged>
								</Group>
						</groups>
				</ABGroupUpdate>
		</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 772; charset=utf-8

<?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>
				<ABGroupUpdateResponse
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				/>
		</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>