Zimlet cookbook based on JavaScript API

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Mail

How to get access to an email("ZmMailMsg" object) when its drag-dropped onto Zimlet's panel Item

First off we need to allow message(ZmMailMsg) or conversation(ZmConv) to be dragged onto Zimlet Panel Item.

  <zimletPanelItem label="Zimlet Name" icon="Zimlet-panelIcon">
		<dragSource type="ZmConv" />
		<dragSource type="ZmMailMsg" />
  </zimletPanelItem>

Then, within the Zimlet's Javascript file, we need to override 'doDrop' function.

com_zimbra_coloredemails.prototype.doDrop =
function(zmObject) {

};

The email dropped(zmObject) can be either a conversation or a single email. This zmObject internally has an object called 'srcObj' (source-object) and contains the real or actual Zimbra Object that was dropped. Once we get access to this, we can access all the properties and even functions.

com_zimbra_coloredemails.prototype.doDrop =
function(zmObject) {
     var msgObj = zmObject.srcObj;//get access to source-object

    //if its a conversation i.e. "ZmConv" object, get the first loaded message "ZmMailMsg" object within that.
    if (zmObject.type == "CONV") {
      msgObj  = zmObject.getFirstHotMsg();
    }

};


At this point we have a single message "ZmMailMsg" object and we can access all its properties.

Get mail subject

  var subject = msgObj.subject; //where msgObj is of type "ZmMailMsg"

Get all email address

var emailsArray =  msgObj.getEmails(); //where msgObj is of type "ZmMailMsg"

Get email addresses only in CC

var ccemails = [];//stores all email address in the email
var participants = msgObj.participants.getArray(); //where msgObj is of type "ZmMailMsg"
for(var i =0; i < participants.length; i++) {
     if(participants[i].type == AjxEmailAddress.CC) {
      ccemails.push(participants[i].address);
    }
}

 PS: Similarly you can get emails of the following types:
 AjxEmailAddress.FROM = "FROM";
 AjxEmailAddress.TO = "TO";
 AjxEmailAddress.CC = "CC";
 AjxEmailAddress.BCC = "BCC";
 AjxEmailAddress.REPLY_TO = "REPLY_TO";
 AjxEmailAddress.SENDER = "SENDER";

Get email body

var body = msgObj.getBodyContent();

Get list of attachments

var attArray =  msgObj.attachments;

//get attachments embedded in the mail body
var inlineAttachmentsArry =  msgObj.getInlineAttachments() ;
 

Get list of Tags

var tagsArray =  msgObj.tags;//returns array containing all the tags tagged to this message
 

Tag an email or entire conversation


Assume that we have a tag by name "testTag" and want to tag any email or conversation when they are dropped onto the Zimlet.
 
com_zimbra_test.prototype.doDrop =
function (msgOrConvObj) {
   this.tagAction(true, msgOrConvObj, "testTag");
}

com_zimbra_test.prototype.tagAction =
function (doTag, msgOrConvObj, tagName) {
        var tagObj = appCtxt.getActiveAccount().trees.TAG.getByName(tagName);
        if(!tagObj)
            return;
        var tagId = tagObj.id;
	var axnType = "";
	if (doTag)
		axnType = "tag"; //tag
	else
		axnType = "!tag"; //untag

	var soapCmd = ZmItem.SOAP_CMD[msgOrConvObj.type] + "Request";
	var itemActionRequest = {};
	itemActionRequest[soapCmd] = {_jsns:"urn:zimbraMail"};
	var request = itemActionRequest[soapCmd];
	var action = request.action = {};
	action.id = msgOrConvObj.id;
	action.op = axnType;
	action.tag = tagId;
	var params = {asyncMode: true, callback: null, jsonObj:itemActionRequest};
	appCtxt.getAppController().sendRequest(params);
};
 

Download Entire Email

You can download the whole email(including all its attachments). This example is from com_zimbra_emaildownloader Zimlet.

The logic is to simply get the message's id and then do a simple http GET to http://<server>/home/message.txt?fmt=tgz&id=<messageId>
com_zimbra_emaildownloader.prototype.doDrop =
function(msgObj) {
	this.srcMsgObj = msgObj.srcObj;
	if(this.srcMsgObj.type == "CONV"){
		this.srcMsgObj = this.srcMsgObj.getFirstHotMsg();
	}
	var url = [];
	var i = 0;
	var proto = location.protocol;
	var port = Number(location.port);
	url[i++] = proto;
	url[i++] = "//";
	url[i++] = location.hostname;
	if (port && ((proto == ZmSetting.PROTO_HTTP && port != ZmSetting.HTTP_DEFAULT_PORT) 
		|| (proto == ZmSetting.PROTO_HTTPS && port != ZmSetting.HTTPS_DEFAULT_PORT))) {
		url[i++] = ":";
		url[i++] = port;
	}
	url[i++] = "/home/";
	url[i++]= AjxStringUtil.urlComponentEncode(appCtxt.getActiveAccount().name);
	url[i++] = "/message.txt?fmt=tgz&id=";
	url[i++] = this.srcMsgObj.id;

	var getUrl = url.join(""); 
	window.open(getUrl, "_blank");//do http get
};

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