Request: Manage resource settings via API

[soerenbe]

Hi all,
currently working on our automation. Since we are using a django-like framework for our first-level support, a method to get/set the resource related settings from python would be nice. I mean:

zarafa-admin | grep 'mr-'
    --mr-accept             (resource) auto-accept meeting requests. yes/no 
    --mr-decline-conflict           (resource) decline meeting requests for conflicting times. yes/no   
    --mr-decline-recurring          (resource) decline meeting requests for all recurring items. yes/no

I a not in the code. But something like a class ResourceConfig would be cool:

class ResourceConfig:
  @property
  def mr_accept():

  @property
  def mr_decline_conflicts():

  @property
  def mr_decline_recurring():

Depending on the effort, a read-only field alone would be very helpful.
Just a proposal, if you searching for new stuff to implement. :)

Best Regards
Sören

[jelly]

After some digging I've figured out that the information is actually stored in the users store (in a special MAPI message ofcourse)

So it would be logical to add this information to the User class, read only is probably do-able

[soerenbe]

That would be great. And read-only would solve my issue >60% and I work around something like 'os.system("ssh mynode zarafa-admin -details %s" % user)' :D

If you need some support give me a hint.

[jelly]

The following proptags are needed and not yet provided by python-mapi yety, but you can define them in your program as following:

PR_PROCESS_MEETING_REQUESTS = PROP_TAG(PT_BOOLEAN, 0x686D)
PR_DECLINE_CONFLICTING_MEETING_REQUESTS = PROP_TAG(PT_BOOLEAN, 0x686F)
PR_DECLINE_RECURRING_MEETING_REQUESTS = PROP_TAG(PT_BOOLEAN, 0x686E)

The mr_accept data is stored in a LocalFreeBusy message in the associated folder of the calendar and the directory 'Freebusy Data' under the root (user.store.folder('Freebusy Data'). This is because different versions of outlook look in different directories :)
The to read the data is als simple as the example below:

for item in bob.store.calendar.associated.items():
if item.message_class == 'IPM.Microsoft.SheduleData.FreeBusy':
break

mr_accept = item.prop(PR_PROCESS_MEETING_REQUESTS).value
mr_decline_confict = item.prop(PR_DECLINE_CONFLICTING_MEETING_REQUESTS).value
mr_decline_recurring = item.prop(PR_DECLINE_RECURRING_MEETING_REQUESTS).value

We aren't sure yet how to incorperate this functionality in python-zarafa, but this code should be enough to read the data.