# Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Client/Request
  • ABAdd
    • abInfo
• Server/Response
  • ABAddResponse
    • ABAddResult
• Examples
  • Client/Request
  • Server/Response

# Introduction

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

Create an Address Book.
Seen when responding to a ABFindAll request with a ABDoesNotExist error.

# Client/Request

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

# ABAdd

This element has only one attribute:

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

# abInfo

This element contains three children, and two optional children:

• <name>: This element is always empty.
• <ownerPuid>: Optional. This is always set to 0.
• <ownerEmail>: Your user handle.
• <fDefault>: Will this be the default Address Book? (true or false).
• <isMessengerMigrated>: Optional. Unknown, probably set when performing ABCH migration. This may be 0 or 1.

# Server/Response

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

# ABAddResponse

This element has only one attribute:

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

# ABAddResult

This element contains the new Address Book's GUID.

# Examples

# Client/Request

POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABAdd
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1007

<?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>AAD9B99B-58E6-4F23-B975-D9EC1F9EC24A</ApplicationId>
			<IsMigration>false</IsMigration>
			<PartnerScenario>Initial</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>
		<ABAdd xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
			<abInfo>
				<name/>
				<ownerPuid>0</ownerPuid>
				<ownerEmail>example@hotmail.com</ownerEmail>
				<fDefault>true</fDefault>
			</abInfo>
		</ABAdd>
	</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

# Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 799

<?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;MjAyNi0wMi0wOFQxODoxMzozNS41MTFa</CacheKey>
			<CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
			<PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
			<SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
		</ServiceHeader>
	</soap:Header>
	<soap:Body>
		<ABAddResponse xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
			<ABAddResult>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</ABAddResult>
		</ABAddResponse>
	</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>