EWS Java API 1.1

That would be great! got a date?

Right, what is the time frame? Can't wait.
Also, what are the external dependencies?

The EWS Java API 1.1 is now ready for download

I'm trying to use the API and got stuck on Item.setExtendedProperty when the property type (1st argument) is LongArray.
The value (2nd argument) is Object, but no value I set passes internal validaton. arrays, collections, arraylists etc.

What is the expected value type?

Hi,

Can you please help us on using EWS Java API for Exchange 2007 SP1 related queries :

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/c6684b26-92f3-4381-9862-6187859b8d1b
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/9e20cc54-ca13-4bed-ac92-0a17d6ae3377

Urgent Help would be appreciated.

Mandar

what happened to this? why is there no release?

I also would love to try this out. When does the download come back?

I'm looking into this.

I'm also very interested into using the EWS Java API please publish it again.

Does anybody have another link to this, or any idea why it was taken down or when it will be back?

Hello EWS Java experts. We recently had to remove the EWS Java API from Code Gallery (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ewsjavaapi) in order to do some additional testing. We will be reposting an updated package as soon as we can. For those who have already downloaded it, please refrain from using in a production environment until additional testing is complete. Once we’ve reposted the package you can use it in your production environment. Until then, continue to use it in your development environments and provide feedback with any issues you encounter. We’ve seen a good response so far, and we’ll work as quickly as we can to get an updated package posted.

Thank you for your response paul. I am wondering if you could give me a link to the API regardless of us not being able to use it in any production environment. I have been putting off starting development on a project for a long time that I hope to use this in. I realize there are bugs of some sort but I am only in the beginning stages of development and don't need it to be perfect, I just would like the code in place so that it will compile and I can move past this part of my project.

Can we have a little more detail, please? I've got a copy of 1.1 here, but right now I don't know if I'm likely to hit the problem you've found in development, how long a fix is likely to take (weeks? Months?), whether it applies to Exchange 2007 or not, whether the fix might invalidate the work I've already done, or whether I should just go back to slogging away with Exchange's WSDL. A little more guidance would be most appreciated.

Cant imagine, its been a week and the guys at Microsoft have not been able to provide a new update.Shame!!

I have found pure Java API for different versions of Exchange servers.

Check out http://www.independentsoft.de/jwebservices/index.html

Hi everyone, I apoplogize for the delay in responding. Unfortunately, I am unable to provide more details at this time. Please know that there is a group of folks working very hard to address this and we'll repost as soon as we can. We take issues we do find seriously and ensure that there isn't a broad impact. I'll provide another update next week on progress, and possibly an eta.

hi paul, any news yet of this library? Please keep us updated.

Hi Vijayshankar, we are still working on this and will post an updated library as soon as we have it. We know this is important to resolve and are giving it our highest priority. But the issue is a tricky one and taking some time to workaround. Sorry again for the delay.

Hi, I just wanted to as if the testing is still in progress and if you can tell an approximate release date?

Also curious, will this be available again any time soon?

Hi, Is any body able to share a previous downloaded version? I am on a project wich needs it, and i have to achieve the goal in a few hours... Bests regard's

Hi, I also have a project to use this API. Can you make available the previous version in order to advance?

Hi. I'm on the same boat as you guys. If anyone is willing to share the previous version... that would be awesome.

yes, me too. A previous version would be fine!

Hi, has anyone managed to get hold of the previous API version. Looks like I'm in the same boat as a few of you. Any possibility of sharing would be REALLY helpful. Thanks in advance...

A nice person sent me the API in version 1.1, I share:
http://uploading.com/files/17bca29b/EWSJavaAPI1.1.zip/

Awesome. Thanks a bunch :)

Thx :)

TY!

Two months and still no update, you haven't even told us what this "issue" and its impact is. (It mostly seems to work fine for us, though.)

Very, very disappointing that this is so badly supported.

paulwim, "tak[ing] issues [...] seriously" is different, and leaving your users in the dark for such a long time is downright unprofessional. "unable to provide more details"? seriously??
VenkatAy: what happened to "highest priority"?

I also have a project requiring the use of EWS for Java. Is there any update?

Sorry again for the delay. I understand your frustration and regret the inconvenience this has caused you. The good news is that we have made significant progress and plan to make an updated API package available by March 1st. Thanks for your patience.

If I understand correctly, an updated version of EWS Java api v1.1 would available next week? Great news!

Hello EWS Java experts. We have posted an updated EWS Java API package. Please note that this package has new list of pre-requisities: Apache Commons HttpClient 3.1, Apache Commons Codec 1.4, Apache Commons Logging 1.1.1 and JCIFS 1.3.15. We made these changes to address issues with incorrect credential caching for some types of multi-threaded client implementations caused by a bug (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6626700) with java.net.HttpURLConnection (http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html). Thanks for your patience and please let us know if you run into any problems.

Where do I file bugs or enhancement requests for this API?
I am wondering if the message:flagStatus property could be exposed to us?
And would it be possible to do search based on this property?
I tried to add it as an ExtendedProperty but ran into an NPE when using it:

ExtendedPropertyDefinition ccc = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(UUID.fromString("00062008-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"), 0x10900003, MapiPropertyType.Short);

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ExtendedPropertyDefinition.isEqualTo(Unknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ExtendedPropertyDefinition.equals(Unknown Source)
at java.util.ArrayList.indexOf(ArrayList.java:216)
at java.util.ArrayList.contains(ArrayList.java:199)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.PropertySet.add(Unknown Source)

Error: microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ServiceRequestException: The request failed. An element node 'soap:Envelope' of the type START_ELEMENT was expected, but node 'head' of type START_ELEMENT was found.

User authentication seems to be ok... web service methods calls throw the exception above... whats wrong? any suggestions? thx

Hi,

Here are some suggestions:

1. Opening an official project with bug tracking etc. This is the second file that I see with the same version number. Version tracking is important.
2. Fixing the ant script so it actually works. People can then generate a jar file and then later include it in their projects no matter if they use Eclipse, Netbeans etc.
3. Mavenizing the project should be the best to do in my opinion. That will keep installation instructions straightforward and seamless integration in existing projects === more agile.

For those looking for a free open source alternative (and already tested Java API) you can checkout the code based on JAX-WS from http://nestorurquiza.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ews/ A discussion about the EWS SOAP API including the history about why I picked JAX-WS can be reached at http://thinkinginsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/02/exchange-web-services-ews-from-java.html

Thanks for the work on this managed API
-Nestor

Hi yoxel, btonmicha, and Nestor - Thanks for reporting the issues you are seeing, feature requests, and suggestions for improving this. We will review the issues you are seeing and get back to you. We have added your feature requests and suggestions to the list we evaluate for subsequent releases.

Hello, I am trying to use ews java api to get my exchange emails... I have installed exchange server 2010 installed and when I am running the following code I get this error:
Mar 16, 2011 12:27:10 PM org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: NTLM authentication scheme selected
Mar 16, 2011 12:27:10 PM org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: NTLM authentication scheme selected
microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.AutodiscoverLocalException: The Autodiscover service couldn't be located.

Code:

ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService();

ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials("cata@domain.com",
"pass.");
service.setCredentials(credentials);


try {
service.autodiscoverUrl("cata@domain.com");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
What is wrong?
Thank you!

How can we create a TimeZoneDefinition needed to create appointments?
It is a major issue for me :-(

Eduard

Hi,

First off, thanks for making this library available.

There appears to be a bug when updating contacts. The xml that is generated is as follows:

<t:IndexedFieldURI FieldURI="contacts:EmailAddress" FieldIndex="EmailAddress1"></t:IndexedFieldURI>
<t:Contact>
<t:FieldURI>
<t:Entry Key="EmailAddress1">changedemail@example.com</t:Entry>
</t:FieldURI>
</t:Contact>

When I think it should be:

<t:IndexedFieldURI FieldURI="contacts:EmailAddress" FieldIndex="EmailAddress1"/>
<t:Contact>
<t:EmailAddresses>
<t:Entry Key="EmailAddress1">changedemail@example.com</t:Entry>
</t:EmailAddresses>
</t:Contact>

FieldURI is being written instead of EmailAddresses and causes an error.
Can this be fixed? Is there any work around?

Thanks,

Richie

@Catalin on your IIS server try disabling all authentication types except basic authentication. That worked for me.

@eduardroccatello I am now facing the same problem. Did you manage to find how to do this?

I am unable to create any appointments with exchange 2007, this is a major blow to my development.

Getting effectiveRights from the folder causes ClassCastException.

ExchangeService service = TestUtils.getExchangeService();
Folder folder = Folder.bind( service, WellKnownFolderName.Inbox );
System.out.println( folder.getDisplayName() );
System.out.println( folder.getEffectiveRights() );

It is causing the following ClassCastException.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.RegularEnumSet cannot be cast to microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.EffectiveRights
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.Folder.getEffectiveRights(Folder.java:802)
at test.FolderTest.main(FolderTest.java:14)

I have posted some issues in the forum.

If anyone could, please help me.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/484bb22d-1c40-4a5d-ad8e-564fdf8f568e
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/bc99587b-08ea-435c-91de-7e02da2c11a3
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/55507eb2-7f5b-4f13-b5bd-9a4d057b20b1
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/c7f04dc1-3c46-4617-8db7-8f023f60dcc1
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/431d6ca0-0701-4474-a354-4257070a6801
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/0f577585-a4d0-4539-9fde-f2fa5c5f20e5
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/352c2699-9915-4726-bed8-0449c0cff5d2
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/6a3b187a-e16c-44c0-8349-7136e9607298
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/fa8cb203-e06e-4dc5-9d5b-f069ef9d6555
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/6022b432-e943-40d9-95cc-21d6c95f8e3d
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/68d30268-79f4-45dd-8d4f-ebc9aaba30f7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/88fb1fc4-dc1c-407a-a0dd-7afcc675171a
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/d6ff7e02-3205-4cae-b3ca-64a08246faf0

Thanks in advance,
Paul

@eduardroccatello I am also facing some some problem with time zones when creating the appointments.

When I create appointment, I set the start and end dates. But when I check in the out look to verify whether the appointment is created, it is actually created 5 and half hours after the time specified in the start and end dates. i.e, if i specify 12:00 PM as my start time, the appointment is created at 5:30 PM.

For fixing this issue, I think I need to specify the startTimeZone. Did you find a way to create the TimeZoneDefinition?

If found the classes GetServerTimeZonesRequset and Response. But it is not used anywhere and I cannot use them directly in my code.

Did you manage to find a solution?

Thanks,
Paul

The "setResources()" method from the Appointment class appears to be missing from the api. For instance, I can "getResources()" for an appointment object, but there is no method to set them. How can you set resources for an appointment?

@frankberlanga

AttendeeCollection resources = appointment.getResources();
resources.add("resource1");
resources.add("resource2");
...

@eduardroccatello
@richieb
@frankberlanga

If you are working on appointments, could you take a look into the forum post
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/d6ff7e02-3205-4cae-b3ca-64a08246faf0

Did you have faced this issue and managed to find a solution?

Still nothing :-(
I'm trying to manage some hacks but still no results...

An update from Microsoft would be appreciated...

@eduardroccatello
@richieb

I am seeing the same issue you are with creating an appointment in Exchange 2007 SP1. The strange thing is that looking at the schema for 2007 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa580675%28v=EXCHG.80%29.aspx, make sure it says 2007), there is no element called startTimeZone. This only exists in 2010.

What I did to get this working is to comment out the lines that's doing the validation and setting in the API. They are line 249, 250, and 256 in Appointment.java. It worked for me once I did that.

Can we use this API in our application product which is commercial and we are selling it as our base product.

@paulnibin
@eduardroccatello
@richieb
@frankberlanga

I think I found problem to the date/time formatting issue (for appointments). The convertDateTimeToUniversalDateTimeString function in ExchangeServiceBase.java file is coded incorrectly. It does not convert to UTC as required. It just uses your local time and formats the *string* to look like it is UTC so you are off by a number of hours (depending on your location).

The solutions to modify the code to look like this:

protected String convertDateTimeToUniversalDateTimeString(Date dt) {

DateFormat utcFormatter = null;
String utcPattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'";
utcFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(utcPattern);
--- INSERT ----> utcFormatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
return utcFormatter.format(dt);
}

You will need to import "import java.util.TimeZone;" as well to make it work.

Tell me how it goes...

A fix for this (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/c53f76f3-4241-42ad-89e2-29f9450f0ca5) in the future will also be appreciated.

We are currently using the exchange webservices directly through JAX-WS and wish to evaluate using this API. Instead of autodiscovery I am trying to connect to the URL "https://ourServerHost/EWS/Services.wsdl".
When I try to acces the inbox I get:

14-apr-2011 16:51:53 org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: NTLM authentication scheme selected
Exception in thread "main" microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ServiceRequestException: The request failed. The remote server returned an error: (405)Method Not Allowed

With JAX-WS we solved this by setting System.setProperty("http.auth.preference", "basic") which is picked up by the java.net libraries. But this API uses apache commons HttpClient. I can find how to set this preference on HttpClient, but unfortunately this is used internally by microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ExchangeService. Is there a way to set this preference without having to hack ExchangeService code..?

Solved my problem by using the URL "https://ourServerHost/EWS/Exchange.asmx", still uses NTLM authentication but seems to connect fine!

slowStrider - what do you set for credentials? I cannot connect with NTLM, getting unauthorized.

Other operations such as creating folders, retrieving information about the existing items, folders seem working but sending message to an email address is not working. Can you figure out why? I appreciate your reply.

ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService();
ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials("validuser","validpass");
service.setCredentials(credentials);

service.setUrl(new URI("https://valid_server/ews/Exchange.asmx"));

EmailMessage msg= new EmailMessage(service);
msg.setSubject("Hello world!");
msg.setBody(MessageBody.getMessageBodyFromText("Sent using the EWS Managed API."));
msg.getToRecipients().add("validname@hotmail.com");

msg.sendAndSaveCopy();
System.out.println("done");

Hi everybody,

Could you give me some help about EWS Exchange Managed API 1.1, in fact I have two questions

1 I would like to know how to create a Exchange 2010 mailbox using java ? could I have a sample code

2 On the msdn's web site, i find that we can use Exchange 2010 EWS to create user configuration (this is the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/gg274402%28v=EXCHG.80%29.aspx ), for the example, what do xmldata and binarydata mean ? could i have a sample code



thanks in advance

Hi nondescriptive, thanks for reporting this issue. We tried this and we were unable to repro the issue . To continue the investigation, we will contact you in private to get more details.

Hi paulnibin , this is regarding the issue "Parse error comes when getting the tasks". thanks for reporting this issue. We tried this and we were unable to repro the issue . To continue the investigation, we will contact you in private to get more details."

Hi paulnibin , this is regarding the issue "Randomly getting CloneNotSupportedException while getting the DisplayPermissionLevel from the Folder object". Thanks for reporting this issue. We tried this and we were unable to repro the issue . To continue the investigation, we will contact you in private to get more details."

As per my private conversation with nondescriptive , The issue "Other operations such as creating folders, retrieving information about the existing items, folders seem working but sending message to an email address is not working ....".
is not ews java api issue and was a exchange configuration issue that prevented sending emails. This issue is resolved.

Hello, I know this issue has been discussed here, but I am still unable to set time time zone on a newly created appointment. I can create the appointment by commenting out the validate code in the appointment class, but what happens is that the start time is wrong when looking at the calendar. I set the time to 115, but in the month view it says 915. Funny thing is is that when I open the actual entry that was created, I see the correct time, but the wrong time zone. I am in EST, but it displays Monrovia, Reykjavik...I am guessing that is the default UTC timezone.

Also I am using exchange 2007 sp1.

Any help would be appreciated as this api is great, and will allow me to do what I have to do for one of my clients. All I need is this time zone issue to be resolved.

Let me know. Thanks.

@y0da22

This was harder to do, and you should really test this more thoroughly than I in what impact this has on other parts of the system. But so far, it has worked fine for me to get the correct time zone to appear.

First thing I did is to create a new method called setMeetingTimeZone somewhere in the EWS package (Appointment.java is a good place for this). This method must reside within the package because the class and methods you are invoking are protected.

public void setMeetingTimeZone( String timeZoneId, String timeZoneName) throws Exception {
TimeZoneDefinition tzd = new TimeZoneDefinition();
tzd.setId(timeZoneId);
MeetingTimeZone mt = new MeetingTimeZone(tzd);
mt.setName(timeZoneName);

this.getPropertyBag().setObjectFromPropertyDefinition(
AppointmentSchema.MeetingTimeZone, mt);
}

In AppointmentSchema.java, I changed

this.registerInternalProperty(MeetingTimeZone);

to

this.registerProperty(MeetingTimeZone);

That should be it. When you create the calendar item, pass in a time zone ID and time zone name with the new method. For example, if you are in PST, you can try "America/Los_Angeles" as the ID, and "Pacific Standard Time" as the name.

Once you have gone that far, you can even define your zone with the TimeZoneDefinition class and TimeChange class. If you do go that route, note that there's a bug in the MeetingTimeZone.java, and also the format generated by the method toXSTime in Time.java doesn't seem to work for 2007. It's fairly easy to fix if you look at example XML files and what files the format should be sent in.

Hope that helps.

Hi All, I wanted to let you know that we have an updated version (1.1.2) available. This version contains several bug fixes based on your feedback and are detailed in the release notes. Thank you for using EWS Java API and for your feedback!

@prentice

Thank you very much. I will give that a shot and report back in the next couple of days.

@prentice

Ok I tried that and it is working well. It is not setting the time zone correctly.

The only thing is now, is that when I set the appt for 1:15pm, it shows up as 9:15 in the calendar.

Any ideas how to handle that? I know I can add 4 hours to the time, but maybe you know something else?

Thanks again

@prentice

Sorry, correction. It is setting the time zone correctly. The time is now the problem. I just tried again, so for example I set time 17:15 and it is creating as 13:15.

Any ideas?

@y0da22

Sounds like a timezone offset issue. You need to have your code use UTC as the timezone. I set it as default at the start of my code:

TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

@prentice

That worked perfectly!

Thank you so much.

Hi, is there a version of EWS Java API that will work with java 1.5 ?

Thank you !

Hi, everyone. I'm using this API on Exchange Server 2007 SP3.
I have difficult to create Appointment.
There are error message "StartTimeZone must be required".
How can define StartTimeZone? It is need to TimeZoneDefinition but I don't know How can define TimeZoneDefinition.
Please help me~

Hello!
I'm having problems reaching other mailboxes that i've got access to. I have no problem accessing my own Inbox folder, but I don't know, how to obtain mails from Inbox on the other two mailboxes. Can anyboy help me please. I've been trying for some time now, but with no success.
Thank you!

Hi All, I wanted to let you know that we have an updated version (1.1.3) available. This version contains several bug fixes based on your feedback and are detailed in the release notes. Thank you for using EWS Java API and for your feedback!

Hi Sawzeb,thanks for using ewsjava api. EWS SOAP API does not support creating a new mailbox. You need to use PowerShell to do that. Regarding user configuration , Please find the sample code to create user configuration.

ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010_SP1);
service.setTraceEnabled(true);
service.setUrl(<URL>);
ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials(USERNAME,PASSWORD, DOMAIN);
service.setCredentials(credentials);
String name = "test configuration";
UserConfiguration config1 = new UserConfiguration(service);
byte[] data_value = new byte[4];
data_value[0] = 'd';
data_value[1] = 'a';
data_value[2] = 't';
data_value[3] = 'a';
//set binary data
config1.setBinaryData(data_value);
//set xml data
config1.setXmlData(data_value);
config1.save(name, WellKnownFolderName.Calendar);
UserConfiguration config = UserConfiguration.bind(service, name,
WellKnownFolderName.Calendar, UserConfigurationProperties.All);
//read binary data from user configuration
byte[] bData=config.getBinaryData();
System.out.print("config.getBinaryData() value :");
for(int i=0;i<bData.length;i++)
{
System.out.print((char)bData[i]);
}
System.out.println();
//read xml data from user configuration
byte[] xData=config.getXmlData();
System.out.print("config.getXmlData() value :");
for(int i=0;i<xData.length;i++)
{
System.out.print((char)xData[i]);
}

Hi Googy,Thanks for using EWS Java Api.To obtain the mails from other’s inbox, the permissions are to be checked first. Once the User gets the permissions to access other user’s mail box ,the mails from other user’s mail box can be retrieved using the folder id of the other user’s Inbox folder. Please find the sample code below and let us know if you are not successful.


ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010_SP1);
service.setTraceEnabled(true);
service.setUrl(<URL>);
ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials(USERNAME,PASSWORD, DOMAIN);
service.setCredentials(credentials);
//folder id is the id of the other user’s inbox
FindItemsResults < Item > results = service.findItems( new FolderId("AAMkADRjZmViNzc5LWM2NTE
7TRPEQJzcSt6i9q+UAAAAu0+lAAA="), new ItemView( 100 ) );
Iterator itr = results.iterator();
while(itr.hasNext()){
EmailMessage em = (EmailMessage)itr.next();
System.out.println("Message Subject From other's Inbox"+em.getSubject());
}

I've wrapped this code up in a Maven project and stuck it up on github at:

https://github.com/buckett/ews-java

Hi All:
Is there a way to create a meeting with no "delete" options. I want the participants not able to delete from their calendar. Is this possible?
Thanks

Hi,
Is there a way to download attachments of an email using this API. I have tried below code without any success.

FolderId folderId = new FolderId(WellKnownFolderName.INBOX, "mailbox@example.com");
findResults = this.svc.findItems(folderId, view);

for(Item item : findResults.getItems()) {
if (item.getHasAttachments()) {
AttachmentCollection attachmentsCol = item.getAttachments();
System.out.println(attachmentsCol.getCount()); // This is printing zero all the time. My message has one attachment.
for (int i = 0; i < attachmentsCol.getCount(); i++) {
FileAttachment attachment = (FileAttachment)attachmentsCol.getPropertyAtIndex(i);
String name = attachment.getFileName();
int size = attachment.getContent().length;
}
}
}

The getCompleteName method on the Contact object always throws a ClassCastException - it is trying to cast a CompleteName object to a String. It can easily be fixed to return the complete name string by first casting the property to a CompleteName object and then getting the name as follows:

public String getCompleteName() throws ServiceLocalException {
CompleteName cn = (CompleteName) this.getPropertyBag().getObjectFromPropertyDefinition(
ContactSchema.CompleteName);
return (cn == null) ? null : cn.getFullName();
}

I have two questions:
1) Does the license agreement allow one to make changes to the source code, compile it and use it in an application?
2) Are any updates to the library planned that would fix this bug?

This library really made my task easier but to finish it properly I need to be able to access the Complete Name property.

Thanks.

Hi ewsuser , Thanks for using EWS Java API. For your query on "Is there a way to create a meeting with no "delete" options." , Unfortunately, this functionality is not supported using EWS SOAP API or EWS Java API. This is by design as a user has the freedom to make updates to their calendar as they desire – including deleting calendar items such as meetings.

Does the 1.1.3 version of this API work with Exchange Server 2007? The release notes state that the 'EWS Java API can be used to access information on computers that are running Exchange Server 2010'.

Can you confirm this?

Hi All, I wanted to let you know that we have an updated version (1.1.4) available. This version contains several bug fixes based on your feedback and are detailed in the release notes. Thank you for using EWS Java API and for your feedback!

Hi all - I need to get a Calender from the public folder - Is there a code sample available ? thanks

Hi FredW,Thanks for using EwsJavaAPI and reporting the issue. This issue is resolved in the release EwsJavaAPI 1.1.4. Please let us know if you are not successful.

Hi all,
I am wondering how to get properties such as the AssociatedAppointmentId and ResponseType from a MeetingResponse.I see the values listed in the xml in the trace but I can't determine how to get them from the object.

ItemView view = new ItemView (10);
FindItemsResults<Item> findResults = this.exchangeService.findItems(WellKnownFolderName.Inbox,view);
for(Item item : findResults.getItems()) {
if (item instanceof MeetingResponse) {
PropertySet propSet = new PropertySet(
BasePropertySet.FirstClassProperties,
MeetingMessageSchema.Sender,
MeetingMessageSchema.AssociatedAppointmentId, MeetingMessageSchema.ResponseType);
MeetingResponse resp = MeetingResponse.bind(this.exchangeService, item.getId(), propSet);
String sender = resp.getSender().getAddress();
System.out.println("sender: " + sender);
System.out.println("subject: " + resp.getSubject());
System.out.println("body:" + resp.getBody());
OutParam<Object> appointmentId = new OutParam<Object>();
resp.tryGetProperty(MeetingMessageSchema.AssociatedAppointmentId, appointmentId);
System.out.println("appointmentId: " + appointmentId.getParam());
}
}

Hi all,
I am trying to use ews java api to get my exchange emails... but when I am running the following code I get this error:

microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.AutodiscoverLocalException: The Autodiscover service couldn't be located.
microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ServiceRequestException: The request failed. sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Code:
ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService();

ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials("prova@domain.com",
"password");
service.setCredentials(credentials);


try {
service.autodiscoverUrl("prova@domain.com");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
try{
service.setUrl(new URI("https://server_url/"));
}catch (Exception e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}

}

Thanks!

Hi all,
I am creating a Java Server-to-Server application, which sets holiday as Appointments on the exchange server. I want to set a holiday as an All-Day event:

appointment.setIsAllDayEvent(true);

but when i look at a test Outlook Account the Appointment is set from 2:00 till 2:00 next Day. This 2 hours are my Timezone Offset.

I think the ExchangeServer save the AlldayEvent from 00:00:00 UTC to 00:00:00 UTC next day.

Has someone ideas to set it right?

Hi..This works great however I have one problem how can I save email message (.msg) to the hard drive. Dont see any such method available on an item or a message objects. There used to be SaveAs method but the current API seems to have have no such method available.

Figured out the way to save the email to the harddrive it has to be saved in .eml format

String sFileName = "c:\\aa.eml";
oMessage.load(new PropertySet(ItemSchema.MimeContent));
MimeContent oMimeContent = oMessage.getMimeContent();
File oFile = new File(sFileName);
FileOutputStream oFOS = new FileOutputStream(oFile);
oFOS.write(oMimeContent.getContent(), 0, oMimeContent.getContent().length);

Hi egeschwinde,Thanks for using ewsjavaapi and reporting the issue. We are working on this issue and we’ll get back to you soon.

Hi eschreiber, Thanks for using ewsjavaapi reporting the issue. We are working on this issue and we’ll get back to you soon.

Is it possible to send signed mails (provided with certificate) via EWS?

NTLM V2 is not longer working since you implemented commons-httpclient!

@TimeZoneDefintion problems; When I created a new appointment, I ran into similar problems, but discovered that the enumeration of TimeZoneDefinitions returned from the ExchangeService is a simple local Java TimeZone enumeration. This format is not compatible with the TimeZone format used by Exchange. Mark Matthews made a timezone conversion util to use http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Development-Class/Timezoneconversionroutines.htm, so passing in something like
appointment.setStartTimeZone(new TimeZoneDefinition(){{
setId("W. Europe Standard Time");
}}); works perfectly.

How to assign task to other user using EWSJavaAPI_1.1.4?

Let me know if there is any alternative method.

Thanks, Kailas

Guys , we are using EWSJavaAPI_1.1.4, when trying to retrieve appointment with " " white spaces values it is crashed in EwsXmlReader.java with ServiceXmlDeserializationException , i believe there is a bug in read() and readValue() function when you checking characters.isIgnorableWhiteSpace() and characters.isWhiteSpace() - i guess logic should be if ignoreWhiteSpace= true && isWhiteSpace = true - continue . Can you please fix it for the next release? Currenly we will use local fix to overcome this issue. Please advise, thanks

Hi egeschwinde,Thank you for using ewsjavaapi.please find the steps for accessing calendar from public folder below:
1. Create exchange service object.
2. Create calendar item in public Folder - Using
"CalendarFolder folder = new CalendarFolder(service);
folder.setDisplayName ( "Test");
folder.save(WellKnownFolderName.PublicFoldersRoot);"
3.Get the folder id of the public calendar and bind the FolderId to CalendarFolder using
"CalendarFolder calendar = CalendarFolder.bind(service, <Folderid>);"
4.Create an Appointment in the public calendar and save the appointment using
"appointment.save(calendar.getId(), SendInvitationsMode.SendToNone);"
5.Check the appointment details created in the step 4, by passing folder id identified in step 3.

Hi Mweiss,Thanks for reporting the issue. We will review the issue you are seeing and get back to you. We have added your feature requests and suggestions to the list we evaluate for subsequent releases.

Hi Dennie,
Thanks for using EwsJavaAPI. We will review the issue and get back to you with updates.

Hi Kailas, Thanks for using EWS Java Api.To obtain the tasks from other user/assign task to other user , the permissions to the task folder are to be checked first. Once the User gets the permissions to access other user’s task folder ,the tasks from other user’s mail box can be retrieved using the folder id of the other user’s task folder.

Hi Natkot,
Thanks for using EwsJava API and reporting the issue.we are working this issue and we’ll fix this issue in subsequent release.

Hi,
How do i move an item to another Folder? i found the MoveItemRequest class, but the constructor needs an ErrorhandlingMode, which isn't public. Is there another way to do this? (EWSJavaAPI_1.1.4)

Hi,

I am still facing TimeZoneDefintion problem, while creating new appointment

Error: The time zone definition is invalid or unsupported.

Code:

appointment.setStartTimeZone(new TimeZoneDefinition(){
{setId("Asia/Calcutta");}});

I have also tried setId("GMT+5.30"), setId("IST"), setId("UTC")

--Kailas

Hi,
I am able to create new appointment by commenting-out lines 249, 250 and 256 in class Appointment.java. But time zone is UTC.
Thanks prentice.
--Kailas

Hi AnandMSFT,
Please send me some sample code, how to assign task to other user using EWSJavaAPI_1.1.4.
--Kailas

Hi EwsJavaTeam,

I need to integrate the functionality of create calendar meeting and view meeting onto a portal.
For this requirement I have downloaded EWSJavaApi1.1.4 jar file. But I need help regarding the initial setup for starting this POC.
I have normal user credentials which I login through outlook. But here do we need any particular certificates or any other settings to be enabled for the users to get connected to MSExchange to create meetings through EWSJavaAPI?
Is this the URL (https://myexchangeserver/EWS/exchange.asmx) I need to pass to get the ExchangeService?
Using my email id I could not get the url through autodiscoverUrl method which is provided in the API.
Please I request you to provide initial setup to start a POC.
Thanks and Regards,
Nalinkumar

HI
Thanks for the help before.
I have another problem.
I want to read the entries from the calender.
My problem is that when I have a series entry eg for each day from 2011-09-05 until 2011-09-16 from 3:00 to 4:00. I get one entry.
But I want to have the calendar entries split up exactly which one can see in the outlook calendara.
Is there a setting for this recurring appoinjtments to fetch it splitted up?
Regards Ewald Geschwinde

“Hi Natkot, thanks for reporting this issue. We tried this and we were unable to repro the issue . To continue the investigation, we will contact you in private to get more details.”

Hi happypeppi,
Thanks for using EwsJavaAPi.To move an item to another folder “move() “ API of Item class is used. Please find the sample code which moves an email message from “WellKnownFolderName.Drafts” to “WellKnownFolderName.Notes”.

Item item =new EmailMessage(service);
item.setSubject("testing move item to another folder");
item.setBody(MessageBody.getMessageBodyFromText("Item moved"));
item.setSensitivity(Sensitivity.Confidential);
item.save(new FolderId(WellKnownFolderName.Drafts));
Item item1 = Item.bind(service, item.getId());
item1.move(new FolderId(WellKnownFolderName.Notes));

Hi Kailas,
Thanks for using EwsJavaApi,we are working on this issue and we’ll get back to you soon with sample code.

Hi NalinKumar,
Thanks for downloading EwsJavaApi.Please refer to the documents “Compiling the EWS Java API” and “Getting started with EWS Java API” for more details on setup and sample code.Please let us know if you are not successful.

Hi Ewald,
Thanks for using EwsJavaApi. we are working on this issue and we’ll get back to you soon.

Hi Anand,
Thanks for your response. I was testing with the EWS url by giving the user credentials.
But it was giving NTLM authentication error. so can you help here to resolve the issue.

Thanks and Regards,
Nalin.

Is there a restriction to use the EWS Java API on a client application when trying to connect Exchange server 2010 that is installed on Windows 2008 R2?
I dont want to change the securiy configuration on the server manually.
Thanks.

I believe I have found a bug in the ExtendedPropertyDefinition isEqualTo static method. It appears vulnerable to quite a few NullPointerExceptions, as it assumes certain fields are populated. I discovered this bug while attempting to fetch the "Referred By" field on a contact vial the extended properties. ie:

PropertySet properties = new PropertySet(BasePropertySet.FirstClassProperties);
ExtendedPropertyDefinition referredByName = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(0x3A47, MapiPropertyType.String);
properties.add(referredByName);

I have a fix working locally, as I now have the method checking for nulls before calling methods on any particular property of the two extended property definitions. It treats a null on both sides as equal. Not sure this is the completely correct way to do it, but it works for now, and I can get my field. I've included the new code below, if you want to incorporate it into the next build. Is there a bug tracker or some such thing I can post this to? We really would like to use this library at my company, but we are somewhat concerned over how "in the shadows" this seems to be.

protected static boolean isEqualTo(ExtendedPropertyDefinition extPropDef1,
ExtendedPropertyDefinition extPropDef2) {
return
(extPropDef1 == extPropDef2)
||
(
(Object)extPropDef1 != null
&&
(Object)extPropDef2 != null
&&
(
(extPropDef1.getId() == extPropDef2.getId())
||
(extPropDef1.getId() != null && extPropDef1.getId().equals(extPropDef2.getId()))
)
&&
extPropDef1.getMapiType() == extPropDef2.getMapiType()
&&
(
(extPropDef1.getTag() == extPropDef2.getTag())
||
(extPropDef1.getTag() != null && extPropDef1.getTag().equals(extPropDef2.getTag()))
)
&&
(
(extPropDef1.getName() == extPropDef2.getName())
||
(extPropDef1.getName() != null && extPropDef1.getName().equals(extPropDef2.getName()))
)
&&
extPropDef1.getPropertySet() == extPropDef2.getPropertySet()
&&
(
(extPropDef1.propertySetId == extPropDef2.propertySetId)
||
(extPropDef1.propertySetId != null && extPropDef1.propertySetId.equals(extPropDef2.propertySetId))
)
);
}

I am not able to connect to my exchange server with the latest EWS API. Tried connecting via wsdl, asmx and auto discover.
WSDL way gives below error
org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor selectAuthScheme
INFO: NTLM authentication scheme selected

autoDiscover gives below error
INFO: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refused: connect

This is my code:
ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService();
ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials("myemail","mypassword");
service.setCredentials(credentials);
//URI uri = new URI("https://mycomp/ews/Services.wsdl");
//URI uri = new URI("https://mycomp/ews/exchange.asmx");
//service.setUrl(uri);
service.autodiscoverUrl("myemail");
EmailMessage msg= new EmailMessage(service);
msg.setSubject("Hello world!");
msg.setBody(MessageBody.getMessageBodyFromText("Sent using the EWS Managed API."));
msg.getToRecipients().add("myemail@mycomp.com");
msg.sendAndSaveCopy();

Are there any settings on the Exchange Server that need to be done?

Hi aadvani

I had the same problem you have to enter a version here
ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2007_SP1);
....

Thanks egeschwinde, but this did not work either. I still get the same message.Is there some setting on the server or client that one needs to take care of, inaddition to parameterizing the ExchangeVersion?

Is there a specific "authentication type" that one needs to have on their Exchange Server? For eg, will this work with only Basic Authentication on the Exchange Server.The api docs also suggest to Run Secpol.msc and choose 'Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated' option as LAN Manager Authentication Level.Any tips welcome. Microsoft, can I get some help please?

Got it!! I was supplying email address instead of userId to WebCredentials.ALso,it only worked with asmx.

Hi, I have been able to access emails from the Inbox folder using EWSJavaAPI in my dev environment however when I set it up on the server I get NullPointerException when it tries to bind to a folder. oExchangeService object is fine and not null.
Folder oInbox = Folder.bind(oExchangeService, WellKnownFolderName.Inbox);

All the required jars are available on the server
commons-codec-1.4.jar
commons-httpclient-3.1.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
jcifs-1.3.16.jar
stax-1.2.0.jar
EwsJavaApi.jar

Can someone tell if anything else needs to be setup on the server?

thanks.
HG

Hi,
I have written the basics of handling ews java api in java and sample programs in my blog.
Here is the link http://abuinjavafamily.blogspot.com/2011/10/java-exchange-connector-exchange-web.html

Hello,
We are using EWSJavaAPI with Exchange Server 2010.
We face an issue to set up All Day Event. It seems that event is created at Exchange server at 00:00 AM - 00:00 AM (next day) based on UTC timezone, but when we review this item on Outlook, the event is span over two days with shift of 4 hours 08:00PM (previous day)-08:00pm(today)
We are located at America/Eastern timezone.
Tried to set startTimeZone - does not help.
Please advise. Thanks

Sorry for my english, not my first language...

----

I got similar problem than greg2406. All returned start date of an Appointment are wrong.

We are also located in America/Eastern timezone.

Considering this trace fragment (setTraceEnabled(true)) :
<Trace Tag="EwsRequestHttpHeaders" Tid="1" Time="2011-10-13 19:00:14Z">&#13;
POST /ews/exchange.asmx HTTP/1.1
Connection : Keep-Alive
User-Agent : ExchangeServicesClient/0.0.0.0
Accept-Encoding : gzip,deflate
Keep-Alive : 300
Content-type : text/xml; charset=utf-8
Accept : text/xml

Take a look at the time (2011-10-13 19:00:14Z)... But when i ran the test, it was 15:00 on my local machine.
So i guessed it was a TimeZone issue. Then i tried different TimeZone initializations of ExchangeService like :
ExchangeService lServiceExchange = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2007_SP1, TimeZone.getDefault());
ExchangeService lServiceExchange = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2007_SP1, TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-5"));
ExchangeService lServiceExchange = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2007_SP1, TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-5:00"));

Whatever the Timezone i set, the result is the same : 4 hours are added to my local time. Looks like the API always use the defaut GMT time...

Hope someone has the answer !

Thanks.

I looked in source code and i found that the time in trace is because the API is using getTimeZone("UTC"). It's not coming from Exchange Server...

But i'm still facing the problem with the appointment dates... My doubts are that the TimeZone parameter of ExchangeService is not working at all.

Does anybody, especially the API developpers, have a clue ? I'm sure someone faced the same problem and found a solution...

Thanks in advance !

I use resolveName method to find the nickname of a user in ActiveDirectory. All i need is to get the contact nickname. The problem is that the nickname property of the contact is always null and i dont know why... In outlook, i can see the the nickname...

The code :
NameResolutionCollection lNameResolutionCollection = exchangeService.resolveName(
"name of contact", ResolveNameSearchLocation.DirectoryOnly, true);

Returns 1 contact.

lNameResolutionCollection.iterator().next().getContact().getNickName() is null
lNameResolutionCollection.iterator().next().getContact().getSurname() is not null

I need to know if i'm wrong with it or if it is a bug.

Thanks !

Hi,

I keep getting java.lang.NullPointerException when trying to use SearchFilter in FindItemResults. After putting some debug I found out that propertyDefination in SearchFilter:ContainsSubstring method is being set as null. I am doing exactly as mentioned in the EWS Java API document. Any ideas?

It works fine when I debug the code on my machine the probelm is when I place the API jar on the server. Another difference is I had to build EWSJavaAPI using Java 1.5 complier instead of 1.6

ItemView oView = new ItemView(20); //new ItemView(iCount);
oView.getOrderBy().add(ItemSchema.DateTimeReceived, SortDirection.Ascending);
oView.setPropertySet(new PropertySet(BasePropertySet.IdOnly, ItemSchema.Subject,
ItemSchema.DateTimeReceived));

SearchFilter oSearchFilter = new SearchFilter.ContainsSubstring(ItemSchema.Subject, "JJJ");
FindItemsResults<Item> oFindResults = oExchangeService.findItems(WellKnownFolderName.Inbox,
oSearchFilter, oView);

Please check the forum post.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/303916f3-fb57-425a-9eba-55417c43c84a

This is about the ParseException when getting all the tasks from the server. Has any one come across this issue?

I have added the code to reproduce the issue also.

Thanks,
Paul

Is there a better place to post questions about this API ? Nobody is answering and a new version has come few weeks ago.

Anyway.

I found something interesting about my problem with dates (see post Oct. 14).

An mentionned in a doc file coming with the API :

Date & TimeZone
java.util.Date class where ever is being used as an input for any of the methods in this API must be considered as UTC time.

Time or the date details which are set to java.util.Date class is considered to be given as UTC. So when ever data is set to Date class make sure that it is in a UTC time.
For example: Lets us consider creating an Appointment from 10:00 am to 11:00 am on 20-09-2010 as per IST Indian Standard Time(which is +5:30 hours from UTC). So as per the format mentioned Time should be given in UTC as shown below.


Appointment appointment = new Appointment(service);
appointment.setSubject("Appointment TEST for TimeZone Check");
appointment.setBody(MessageBody.getMessageBodyFromText("Test Body Msg"));
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date startDate = formatter.parse("2012-09-20 04:30:00");
Date endDate = formatter.parse("2012-09-20 05:30:00");
appointment.setStart(startDate);
appointment.setEnd(endDate);
appointment.save();

------
The above is when we create an item. But if i want to read it, i guess i have to do the same kind of conversion. In my case (i live in Québec, Canada), i have to substract 5 hours to the date returned by the API. I dont like it but this is the way the API works.

This said, i suggest to remove (or make it work) the TimeZone parameter of the ExchangeService constructor.

Thanks !

Hi Ybuche,
Your approach is good for "regular" appointments, but still any time manipulation does not help in case of All Day Event item.
It seems that API ignores time sent and always creates ADE item with 00:00-00:00 time in UTC timezone, therefore when you look at this ADE through outlook in your timezone, it is shifted and usually appears in more than one day banner.
We could not find any workaround and I don't see that we get any response from MS team, which is very frustrating

Thanks

Hi greg,

I'm happy to see that at least someone answer the bell here !

Yup this is frustrating. But i didn't expect much from Microsoft. Free stuff, open source. Not the kind of Microsoft. Probably not a priority for them to support this API.

I can see that your problem is more complicated than mine.

Have you tried to do like the example above ? I mean that if you want to set the event from Today 10 AM to tomorrow 4 PM you should substract 4 hours to Start and End date.
See the code i would like to try if i were you :

today is 2011-10-21 :
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date startDate = formatter.parse("2011-10-21 05:00:00");
Date endDate = formatter.parse("2011-10-21 11:00:00");

But i think the base of the problem here is because the TimeZone parameter of ExchangeService is not working at all. Not as mentionned in the documentation... Maybe it will be fixed in the next version of the API ?

Hope this will help you ;)

Hi all,

Is there any way to mock ews request for unit test ?

Thanks

An other question : is it plan to change to commons-httpclient 4 ?

I had to change the source code in order to make it work:

File: EwsXmlReader.java
line 111:

if ((!this.getLocalName().equals(localName)) ||
(this.getNamespaceUri() != EwsUtilities
.getNamespaceUri(xmlNamespace))) {

replace with:


if ((!this.getLocalName().equals(localName)) ||
!this.getNamespaceUri().equals(EwsUtilities
.getNamespaceUri(xmlNamespace))) {

line: 718:


&& ((this.getNamespacePrefix() == EwsUtilities
.getNamespacePrefix(xmlNamespace)) || (this
.getNamespaceUri() == EwsUtilities
.getNamespaceUri(xmlNamespace)));

replace with:


&& (this.getNamespacePrefix().equals(EwsUtilities
.getNamespacePrefix(xmlNamespace)) || this
.getNamespaceUri().equals(EwsUtilities
.getNamespaceUri(xmlNamespace)));

Release problems when setting timezone for appointment. My solution is modified source code of ESWJava and built it again
In TimeZoneDefinition.java file, i added
private Item parent;


protected Item getParent(){
return this.parent;
}

protected void setParent(Item _item){
this.parent = _item;
}
Add
if(getParent() instanceof Appointment)return;
in the first line of validate() method
Build EWSJava againt. Each one get a new TimeZoneDefinition

TimeZoneDefinition rtn = null;
rtn = new TimeZoneDefinition() {
{
setId("GMT");
setName("UTC Standard Time");
setParent(app);
}
};
:D. It's ok

Could the EWS jar be added to the central Maven repository? Having this library available there would greatly improve our ability to use the library in our projects. While we could of course manually add this jar to a custom repository, our projects are currently heavily discouraged from doing so.

hi
there is appear a problem i using outlook sent an email .the body content following
??
????????????......
????
2011?12?5?
then i using the "HttpMethodBase.getResponseBodyAsStream" method reecived this email. the email body'content is following:
??
????????????......
????
2011?12?5?
2011?12?5? style="" /span>
why i get the emails'conten is wrong.?

hi
there is appear a problem i using outlook sent an email .the body content following
hi
this is email's body
2011.12.5(sign date)
then i using the "HttpMethodBase.getResponseBodyAsStream" method reecived this email. but the email body'content is following:
hi
this is email's body.
2011.12.5.(sign date)
2011.12.5. style="" /span> (sign date repeate)
why i get the emails'conten is wrong.?

the email's body appered two sign date

who can help me ?

final Appointment appointment = new Appointment(service);
appointment.setSubject("Terminnnn!!!!!");
appointment.setBody(MessageBody.getMessageBodyFromText("Superrrrrr!!!!!! "));

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

Date startDate = formatter.parse("2011-12-23 10:30:00");
Date endDate = formatter.parse("2011-12-23 12:30:00");

appointment.setStartTimeZone( new TimeZoneDefinition() {
{
setId("GMT");
setName("UTC Standard Time");
setParent(appointment);


}});

appointment.setStart(startDate);
appointment.setEnd(endDate);

appointment.save();

but he give me an error ( The time zone definition is invalid or unsupported.)
can someone help me please !

Hi Hstive!
Are you sure to modify TimeZoneDefinition.java file with add
private Item parent;


protected Item getParent(){
return this.parent;
}

protected void setParent(Item _item){
this.parent = _item;
}

I'm having an issue getting recurrence appointment data and I've found a technet forum post with no solution (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/nl-NL/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/c6f60e25-a604-48b4-a0a7-65c691b8f40b). It looks like the "StartDate" value for the Recurrence>NoEndRecurrence xml node is being returned as an invalid date (2012-01-10-05:00). I am getting the following error: The request failed. Unparseable date: "2012-01-10-05:00".

It is returning just the date value but appends the TZ offset (-05:00) value to the end with no time value. I would think either removing the -5:00 time zone information completely or adding 0 based time "2012-01-10T00:00:00-05:00" would correct this but this has to do with how Exchange is returning the data, not how the EWS API is parsing the date I believe but not sure how to get past this.

From my EWS trace:

<t:Recurrence>
<t:WeeklyRecurrence>
<t:Interval>1</t:Interval>
<t:DaysOfWeek>Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday</t:DaysOfWeek>
<t:FirstDayOfWeek>Sunday</t:FirstDayOfWeek>
</t:WeeklyRecurrence>
<t:NoEndRecurrence>
<t:StartDate>2012-01-10-05:00</t:StartDate>
</t:NoEndRecurrence>
</t:Recurrence>

The weird behavior about time zones is due to a problem in EwsUtilities.java, 'Z' that means UTC is appended to the date ignoring which is the real TimeZone. Here the patch to EwsUtilities.java:

35a36,49
> private static DateFormat utcDateTimeFormatter;
> static {
> utcDateTimeFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
> utcDateTimeFormatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
> }
>
>
>
> private static DateFormat utcDateFormatter;
> static {
> utcDateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'Z'");
> utcDateFormatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
> }
>
448,451c462,464
< Date d = new Date();
< DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'Z'");
< df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
< String formattedString = df.format(d);
---
> Date d = new Date();
> String formattedString = utcDateTimeFormatter.format(d);
>
706,707c719
< DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
< return (T) df.parse(value);
---
> return (T) utcDateTimeFormatter.parse(value);
801,803c813
< String format = "yyyy-MM-dd'Z'";
< DateFormat utcFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
< return utcFormatter.format(date);
---
> return utcDateFormatter.format(date);
814,816c824
< String format = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'";
< DateFormat utcFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
< return utcFormatter.format(date);
---
> return utcDateTimeFormatter.format(date);

I am still having issues with the appointment.setIsAllDayEvent(true); It sets the Time to 4PM which is Midnight - TimeZone offset. It ignores the time all together when you use setIsAllDayEvent method. When you open up Outlook the All Day Event Flag is not set. Any ideas on how to fix this? I have read through all the previous posts and none of them fixed this issue.

Is there a way to create categories using EWS

hey guys!

first of all: THANK YOU!

really, i appreciate your effort and the API has been really helpful for me, so far.

what bothers me is the fact, that somehow i'm not able to set exceptions to recurrences.
is that a bug or a feature?! :D

thanks in an advance for the answer!

I am having issues integrating the EWS Java API into an Android application. I suspect that this is because the dependency of HttpClient 3.1 conflicts with Android's usage of HttpClient 4.0. An update to the library to be Android compliant would be great. I've outlined my problem in more detail here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9203073/problems-using-the-ews-java-api-on-android

With EWS Java API 1.1.5 I can delete phone numbers but can not delete email addresses from a contact by using the following code:
ItemId id = ItemId.getItemIdFromString(itemId);
Iterator<GetItemResponse> i = service.bindToItems(Collections.singletonList(id), PropertySet.FirstClassProperties).iterator();
if (i.hasNext()) {
Contact contact = (Contact) i.next().getItem();
contact.getEmailAddresses().setEmailAddress(EmailAddressKey.EmailAddress1, null);
contact.update(ConflictResolutionMode.AlwaysOverwrite);
}
Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

Hi

I tried using the API to connect to a trial exchange account provided by microsoft. I was able to read the mail and delete it using my java code. For the same code i tried the URL and credentials for the exchange server setup on client machine. But getting null pointer exception when the code tries to read the inbox. We checked the logs and found that the code is not even hitting the target server. Wehn we used http instead of https, the code hit the server but threw the "Not authorized" exception.Even tried the autodiscover code and that too returns the same

Paralallely, we generated jax-ws classes from the wsdl and used that to connect to the client machine. It succesfully connected and read the mail subjects..

Can someone please suggest what is the issue with the API jar? Below is the code i used




public static void main(String args[])
{
try
{
setSSLConfig();
Authenticator.setDefault(new RetrieveWSDLAuthenticator("domain\\uid", "pwd"));

new InboxSummaryExample().testGetMail();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e);
}
}

public void testGetMail() throws Exception
{

ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010_SP1);
URI url = new URI("https://10.12.12.37/ews/Exchange.asmx");
service.setUrl(url);
service.setCredentials(new WebCredentials("uid@domainmail.com", "pwd", "domain"));
System.out.println("Created ExchangeService");
Folder inbox = Folder.bind(service, WellKnownFolderName.Inbox);
ItemView view = new ItemView(50);
FindItemsResults<Item> findResults;
int i = 0;
do
{
findResults = service.findItems(WellKnownFolderName.Inbox, view);
int cntr = 1;
for (Item item : findResults.getItems())
{
System.out.println("Subject of emails in inbox (" + cntr + " ) " + item.getSubject());
item.move(WellKnownFolderName.DeletedItems);
System.out.println("Email moved to deleted items folder");
System.out.println("------------------------");
cntr++;
i++;
}
view.setOffset(view.getOffset() + 50);
}
while (findResults.isMoreAvailable());
if (i == 0)
{
System.out.println("no emails in inbox");
}
}

static class RetrieveWSDLAuthenticator extends Authenticator
{
private String username, password;

public RetrieveWSDLAuthenticator(String user, String pass)
{
username = user;
password = pass;
}

@Override
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication()
{
return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password.toCharArray());
}
}

// The trust all certs.
private static TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager()
{

public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers()
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}

} };

// Java Secure Socket Connection
private static HostnameVerifier hv = new HostnameVerifier()
{

public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return false;
}
};

// Sets the ssl config.
private static void setSSLConfig() throws Exception
{
SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
context.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(context.getSocketFactory());
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hv);
}

Hello,

I am having issue with EWSAPI latest version (1.1.5). Since I have read all the comments in the thread -
my problem is similar if not same to the problems outlined above. Since I am proposing a fix for
my situation, I am adding my comment.

There is an issue with parsing dates of Recurrence Master Events when one adds AppointmentSchema.Recurrence
to the property set in the call: Appointment.bindToRecurringMaster(eService, itemId, ps);
This stems from a bug in the following method:

protected Date convertStartDateToUnspecifiedDateTime(String value)
throws ParseException {
if (value == null || value.isEmpty()) {
return null;
} else {
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'Z'");
- return df.parse(value);
}
}

The method is in the class microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ExchangeServiceBase
That method is inherited by microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ExchangeService which gets used

The main problem is that the Exchange servers returns Strings in the format:
"2012-02-15+06:00"; The part after the '+' is dependent on the time zone of the Exchange server we query.

The parse string: "yyyy-MM-dd'Z'" does not correspond to what we get from server
1st: The quoted 'Z' means it is a literal and not a timezone place holder
2nd: Even if we unquote it - timezone representations in Java have no ":" in them.


A simple patch for the problem is using the follwoing code:

protected Date convertStartDateToUnspecifiedDateTime(String value)
throws ParseException {
if (value == null || value.isEmpty()) {
return null;
} else {
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
return df.parse(value.substring(0, 10));
}
}

Please note that Microsoft's licence does not allow changing their libray and
thus you should check whether patching like this is allowed.

Still I am providing the patch freely (Public Domain) to be used by everybody
(and anyway - it is way too trivial to be really copyrightable).

As final words:

May I point that the single String argument constructor of SimpleDateFormat uses
the system time zone which is definately not optimal. Please use
public SimpleDateFormat(String pattern, Locale locale)

And really - I kindly urge that Microsoft publish the library under a more permissive
and dare I say even Open Source license (Apache/MIT will be fantastic, but even
Microsoft's own Public License and Reciprocal License will be equally great).
This will definately foster cooperation and wider reach of Exchange server.
Kind regards:
al_shopov

Hello,

Is there any way to share a calendar using this API? I've been looking for such option for 3 days by now,
and inspected all calendar related classes ;( can anyone help out?

Also, can anyone provide me with some working example on how to override the urlvalidate method of autodiscover? I've tried every approach i could have think of, even the one suggested in "Getting started..." doc didn't work out.

static boolean ValidateRedirectionUrlCallback(String redirectionUrl)
{
// The default for the validation callback is to reject the URL.
boolean result = false;

try{
URI redirectionUri = new URI(redirectionUrl);
if (redirectionUri.getScheme() == "https")
{
result = true;
}
}catch(URISyntaxException e){e.printStackTrace(); }
// Validate the contents of the redirection URL. In this simple validation
// callback, the redirection URL is considered valid if it is using HTTPS
// to encrypt the authentication credentials.
return result;
}

eservice = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010_SP1);
eservice.setCredentials(credentials);
try
{
// URI url = new URI( adres );
eservice.autodiscoverUrl(login, ValidateRedirectionUrlCallback);
// eservice.setUrl( url );

}catch(Exception e){System.out.println("Something didnt work out..");
e.printStackTrace();
};

I too am getting "The request failed. An element node 'soap:Envelope' of the type START_ELEMENT was expected, but node 'head' of type START_ELEMENT was found."

Just trying what is in the Getting Started doc.


ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService();
service.setUrl(new URI(url));
ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials(username, password);
service.setCredentials(credentials);
EmailMessage msg = new EmailMessage(service);
msg.setSubject("Hello world!");
msg.setBody(MessageBody.getMessageBodyFromText("Sent using the EWS Managed API."));
msg.getToRecipients().add("bobmanc@example.com");
msg.send();

Okay,

Here is a tip for anyone that may have problem with defining autodiscover:

public class AutoRule implements IAutodiscoverRedirectionUrl {

@Override
public boolean autodiscoverRedirectionUrlValidationCallback(String string) throws AutodiscoverLocalException{
boolean result = false;

try{
URI redirectionUri = new URI(string);
if (redirectionUri.getScheme().contains("https"))
{
result = true;

}
}catch(URISyntaxException e){e.printStackTrace(); }
System.out.println(result);
System.out.println(string);
// Validate the contents of the redirection URL. In this simple validation
// callback, the redirection URL is considered valid if it is using HTTPS
// to encrypt the authentication credentials.
return result;
};

And then in your main code it would look something like this:
eservice = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010_SP1);
eservice.setCredentials(credentials);
try
{
// URI url = new URI( adres );
AutoRule valid = new AutoRule();
eservice.autodiscoverUrl(login , valid);
// eservice.setUrl( url );
}catch(Exception e){System.out.println("Something didnt work out..");
e.printStackTrace();
};

Hope that would help in future ;)

When I call ExchangeService.getDelegates() methods it returns 'None' for all permissions, but there are permissions for that user.
The methods addDelegates(), updateDelegates(), removeDelegates() work fine. Is it a bug? Im using Exchange Server 2007 and Ews Java Api 1.1.5.
Thanks in advance

I just want to call out that if you run into the "The specified server version is invalid" error, the fix is to specify the right version of Exchange to connect too.
val service = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2007_SP1)
And it appears that this sets your compatibility level so you can call against other versions (Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 SP1) but new features are not available.

Now, I have a problem when i try to getFirstOccurrence() of a RecurringAppointment.

Source:

FindItemsResults<Appointment> findResults = cf.findAppointments(new CalendarView(startDate, endDate));
PropertySet ps = new PropertySet();
ps.add(AppointmentSchema.FirstOccurrence);
service.loadPropertiesForItems(findResults, ps.FirstClassProperties);
for (Appointment appt : findResults.getItems())
{
if (appt.getIsRecurring()){
System.out.println("getFirstOccurrence:" + appt.getFirstOccurrence().getItemId());
}

Error: java.lang.NullPointerException
at ExchangeServerTest.getOriginalAppointment(ExchangeServerTest.java:439)
at ExchangeServerTest.main(ExchangeServerTest.java:470)


#### Please help me !!!!

I created an recurring appointment using outlook(2007 SP1).

Then I try to get the FirstOccurrence but not work. alway return null.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Source:

CalendarFolder cf = CalendarFolder.bind(service, WellKnownFolderName.Calendar);
FindItemsResults<Appointment> findResults = cf.findAppointments(new CalendarView(startDate, endDate));
PropertySet ps = new PropertySet();
ps.add(AppointmentSchema.FirstOccurrence);
service.loadPropertiesForItems(findResults, ps);
for (Appointment appt : findResults.getItems())
{
if (appt.getIsRecurring()){
System.out.println("getFirstOccurrence:" + appt.getFirstOccurrence());
}
}

And this is the result:

getFirstOccurrence:null

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

How to get ID of the FirstOccurrence of a recurring appointment ????

Hi Guys,

I'm using the java EWS API, get mimecontent from Office 365, I'm getting these error for some messages, any suggestions will be highly appreciated:

The request failed. Illegal character entity: expansion character (code 0xb) not
a valid XML character
at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [179,364]
microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ServiceRequestException: The request failed.
Illegal character entity: expansion character (code 0xb) not a valid XML charac
ter
at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [179,364]
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.SimpleServiceRequestBase.internal
Execute(Unknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.MultiResponseServiceRequest.execu
te(Unknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ExchangeService.internalBindToIte
ms(Unknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ExchangeService.bindToItem(Unknow
n Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ExchangeService.bindToItem(Unknow
n Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.EmailMessage.bind(Unknown Source)

at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.EmailMessage.bind(Unknown Source)

at test.EWSTest.getMessagesFromInbox(EWSTest.java:1636)
at test.EWSTest.main(EWSTest.java:1718)
Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Illegal character entity: expa
nsion character (code 0xb) not a valid XML character
at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [179,364]
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.constructWfcException(StreamScanner.jav
a:605)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:461)

at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.reportIllegalChar(StreamScanner.java:23
75)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.checkAndExpandChar(StreamScanner.java:2
321)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.resolveSimpleEntity(StreamScanner.java:
1180)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.readTextSecondary(BasicStreamReader
.java:4675)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.readCoalescedText(BasicStreamReader
.java:4124)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.finishToken(BasicStreamReader.java:
3699)
at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1023)
at com.ctc.wstx.evt.WstxEventReader.peek(WstxEventReader.java:306)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.EwsXmlReader.isEmptyElement(Unkno
wn Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ComplexPropertyDefinitionBase.loa
dPropertyValueFromXml(Unknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.PropertyBag.loadFromXml(Unknown S
ource)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ServiceObject.loadFromXml(Unknown
Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.EwsServiceXmlReader.readServiceOb
jectsCollectionFromXml(Unknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.GetItemResponse.readElementsFromX
ml(Unknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ServiceResponse.loadFromXml(Unkno
wn Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.MultiResponseServiceRequest.parse
Response(Unknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.ServiceRequestBase.readResponse(U
nknown Source)
at microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.SimpleServiceRequestBase.readResp
onse(Unknown Source)
... 9 more

James

Hi.
I'm using EWSJavaAPI_1.1.5 and get always 401 Unauthorized.
We have Exchange 2010 SP1 with loadbalancer and four server CAS-role.
The username and password are correct.
We can request the wsdl definition with "https://SERVER/ews/exchange.asmx" where SERVER is the loadbalancer or one of the server with CAS-Role.
We are using ony Windows Authentication - Basic Authentication is diabled.
My test program looks like:
ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService();
ExchangeCredentials credentials = new WebCredentials(
user,
pwd,
domain);

service.setCredentials(credentials);
service.setUrl(new URI(url));

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date startDate = formatter.parse("2012-05-01 12:00:00");
Date endDate = formatter.parse("2012-05-30 13:00:00");
CalendarFolder cf=CalendarFolder.bind(service, WellKnownFolderName.Calendar);
FindItemsResults<Appointment> findResults = cf.findAppointments(new CalendarView(startDate, endDate));
for (Appointment appt : findResults.getItems()) {
System.out.println("ID====="+appt.getId().getUniqueId());
System.out.println("SUBJECT====="+appt.getSubject());
System.out.println("START====="+appt.getStart().toString());
System.out.println("END====="+appt.getEnd().toString());
System.out.println();
}

Has anybody an idea?
I would be very grateful for any help