# Table of contents:

Introduction
Client/Request
- ABFindAll
  - abId
  - abView
  - deltasOnly
  - lastChange
Server/Response
- ABFindAllResponse
  - ABFindAllResult
    - groups
      - Group
        
        groupInfo
    - contacts
      - Contact
    - ab
      - abInfo
Examples
- Client/Request
- Server/Response

# Introduction

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

Returns the full list of contacts in the Forward List (FL). For retrieving information about other lists, read the FindMembership article.

# Client/Request

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

# ABFindAll

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.

# abView

Always set to Full.

# deltasOnly

If set to true, the <lastChange> value is compared against the server to only provide the updates since the timestamp provided.

# lastChange

This is a ISO 8601 timestamp which denotes the last time you retrieved the Forward List (FL), comes from the response's <createDate> element inside the <ab> element.

# Server/Response

# ABFindAllResponse

This element has only one attribute:

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

This element only contains the <ABFindAllResult> element.

# ABFindAllResult

# groups

This element contains any amount of <Group> elements.

# Group

This element contains five children:

<groupId>: The group's GUID.
<groupInfo>: Described below.
<propertiesChanged>: Contains a space delimited list of changed elements in <groupInfo>:
- GroupName
<fDeleted>: Is this group deleted? (true or false).
<lastChange>: The ISO 8601 timestamp of the time this group was last modified.

# groupInfo

This element contains six children:

<annotations>: This element contains multiple <Annotation> elements.
<groupType>: Only known to be set to c8529ce2-6ead-434d-881f-341e17db3ff8.
<name>: The group's name
<IsNotMobileVisible>: If this is set to true, this group is not shown to mobile clients. Otherwise, it is set to false.
<IsPrivate>: If this is set to true, this group is private. Otherwise, it is set to false.
<IsFavorite>: If this is set to true, this group is the Favorites group. Otherwise, it is set to false.

<Annotation> elements contain two children:

<Name>: The key of this annotation:
- MSN.IM.Display: Is this group shown to the Official Client? (1 or 0)
<Value>: The value of this annotation.

# contacts

This element contains any amount of <Contact> elements.

# Contact

This element contains five children:

<contactId>: The GUID of this contact.
<contactInfo: Described on it's own page.
<propertiesChanged>: Contains a space delimited list of changed elements in <contactInfo>:
- DisplayName
- IsMessengerUser
- ContactFirstName
- ContactLastName
- Comment
- MiddleName
- ContactPrimaryEmailType
- ContactEmail
- ContactLocation
- ContactPhone
- ContactWebSite
- Annotation
<fDeleted>: Is this contact deleted? (true or false)
<lastChange>: The ISO 8601 timestamp of the time this contact was last modified.

# ab

This element contains seven children:

<abId>: Your Address Book Service GUID.
<abInfo>: Described below.
<lastChange>: The ISO 8601 timestamp of the time a change was last made to the Address Book.
<DynamicItemLastChanged>: The ISO 8601 timestamp of the time any dynamic item was last modified.
<RecentActivityItemLastChanged>: The ISO 8601 timestamp of the time a "recent activity item" was last modified.
<createDate>: The ISO 8601 timestamp of the time this Address Book was created.
<propertiesChanged>: Contains a space delimited list of changed elements in an unknown location.

# abInfo

This element contains ten children:

<ownerPuid>: This is always 0.
<OwnerCID>: Your Common ID, an signed 64-bit integer.
<ownerEmail>: Your user handle.
<fDefault>: unknown (true or false)
<joinedNamespace>: unknown (true or false)
<IsBot>: Is this account provisioned? (true or false)
<IsParentManaged>: Is this a children's account? (true or false)
<SubscribeExternalPartner>: unknown (true or false)
<NotifyExternalPartner>: unknown (true or false)
<AddressBookType>: Is always set to Individual.

# Examples

# Client/Request

POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABFindAll
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1128

<?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>ContactSave</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>
                <ABFindAll
                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                >
                        <abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
                        <abView>Full</abView>
                        <deltasOnly>false</deltasOnly>
                        <lastChange>0001-01-01T00:00:00.0000000-08:00</lastChange>
                </ABFindAll>
        </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

# Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 6684

<?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;MjAyNC0xMS0yMFQxMToyMDoyNy43MTVa</CacheKey>
                        <CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
                        <PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
                        <SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
                </ServiceHeader>
        </soap:Header>
        <soap:Body>
            <ABFindAllResponse
                xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
            >
                <ABFindAllResult>
                    <groups>
                        <Group>
                            <groupId>f60efbe7-94af-4b16-b926-e4e10878d329</groupId>
                            <groupInfo>
                                <annotations>
                                    <Annotation>
                                        <Name>MSN.IM.Display</Name>
                                    </Annotation>
                                </annotations>
                                <groupType>c8529ce2-6ead-434d-881f-341e17db3ff8</groupType>
                                <name>Friends</name>
                                <IsNotMobileVisible>false</IsNotMobileVisible>
                                <IsPrivate>false</IsPrivate>
                                <IsFavorite>false</IsFavorite>
                            </groupInfo>
                        </Group>
                    </groups>
                    <contacts>
                        <Contact>
                            <contactId>c1f9a363-4ee9-4a33-a434-b056a4c55b98</contactId>
                            <contactInfo>
                                <contactType>Regular</contactType>
                                <quickName>anotheruser</quickName>
                                <passportName>anotheruser@hotmail.com</passportName>
                                <IsPassportNameHidden>false</IsPassportNameHidden>
                                <displayName>another user</displayName>
                                <puid>0</puid>
                                <groupIds>
                                    <guid>f60efbe7-94af-4b16-b926-e4e10878d329</guid>
                                </groupIds>
                                <CID>4388220788362762</CID>
                                <IsNotMobileVisible>false</IsNotMobileVisible>
                                <isMobileIMEnabled>false</isMobileIMEmabled>
                                <isMessengerUser>true</isMessengerUser>
                                <isFavorite>false</isFavorite>
                                <isSmtp>false</isSmtp>
                                <hasSpace>false</hasSpace>
                                <spotWatchState>NoDevice</spotWatchState>
                                <birthdate>0001-01-01T00:00:00</birthdate>
                                <primaryEmailType>ContactEmailPersonal</primaryEmailType>
                                <PrimaryLocation>ContactLocationPersonal</PrimaryLocation>
                                <PrimaryPhone>ContactPhonePersonal</PrimaryPhone>
                                <IsPrivate>false</IsPrivate>
                                <Gender>Unspecified</Gender>
                                <TimeZone>None</TimeZone>
                            </contactInfo>
                            <propertiesChanged />
                            <fDeleted>false</fDeleted>
                            <lastChange>2024-11-20T11:43:00.1230000-08:00</lastChange>
                        </Contact>
                        <Contact>
                            <contactId>a47e39cf-312c-4100-94a6-f2b33adf5b68</contactId>
                            <contactInfo>
                                <phones>
                                    <ContactPhone>
                                        <contactPhoneType>ContactPhoneMobile</contactPhoneType>
                                        <number>15551111222</number>
                                        <isMessengerEnabled>true</isMessengerEnabled>
                                        <propertiesChanged />
                                    </ContactPhone>
                                </phones>
                                <contactType>Regular</contactType>
                                <quickName>john</quickName>
                                <IsPassportNameHidden>false</IsPassportNameHidden>
                                <displayName>john</displayName>
                                <puid>0</puid>
                                <CID>0</CID>
                                <IsNotMobileVisible>false</IsNotMobileVisible>
                                <isMobileIMEnabled>true</isMobileIMEnabled>
                                <isMessengerUser>false</isMessengerUser>
                                <isFavorite>false</isFavorite>
                                <isSmtp>false</isSmtp>
                                <hasSpace>false</hasSpace>
                                <spotWatchState>NoDevice</spotWatchState>
                                <birthdate>0001-01-01T00:00:00</birthdate>
                                <primaryEmailType>ContactEmailPersonal</primaryEmailType>
                                <PrimaryLocation>ContactLocationPersonal</PrimaryLocation>
                                <PrimaryPhone>ContactPhoneMobile</PrimaryPhone>
                                <IsPrivate>false</IsPrivate>
                                <Gender>Unspecified</Gender>
                                <TimeZone>None</TimeZone>
                            </contactInfo>
                            <propertiesChanged />
                            <fDeleted>false</fDeleted>
                            <lastChange>2024-11-20T11:44:40.4560000-08:00</lastChange>
                        </Contact>
                        <Contact>
                            <contactId>c867a811-089f-4c4c-a601-e983881f003a</contactId>
                            <contactInfo>
                                <annotations>
                                    <Annotation>
                                        <Name>MSN.IM.MBEA</Name>
                                        <Value>0</Value>
                                    </Annotation>
                                    <Annotation>
                                        <Name>MSN.IM.GTC</Name>
                                        <Value>1</Value>
                                    </Annotation>
                                    <Annotation>
                                        <Name>MSN.IM.BLP</Name>
                                        <Value>1</Value>
                                    </Annotation>
                                </annotations>
                                <phones>
                                    <ContactPhone>
                                        <contactPhoneType>ContactPhonePersonal</contactPhoneType>
                                        <number>123 (4567)</number>
                                    </ContactPhone>
                                </phones>
                                <contactType>Me</contactType>
                                <quickName>Q</quickName>
                                <passportName>example@hotmail.com</passportName>
                                <IsPassportNameHidden>false</IsPassportNameHidden>
                                <displayName>example user</displayName>
                                <puid>0</puid>
                                <CID>4294967298</CID>
                                <IsNotMobileVisible>false</IsNotMobileVisible>
                                <isMobileIMEnabled>false</isMobileIMEnabled>
                                <isMessengerUser>false</isMessengerUser>
                                <isFavorite>false</isFavorite>
                                <isSmtp>false</isSmtp>
                                <hasSpace>false</hasSpace>
                                <spotWatchState>NoDevice</spotWatchState>
                                <birthdate>0001-01-01T00:00:00</birthdate>
                                <primaryEmailType>ContactEmailPersonal</primaryEmailType
                                <PrimaryLocation>ContactLocationPersonal</PrimaryLocation>
                                <PrimaryPhone>ContactPhonePersonal</PrimaryPhone>
                                <IsPrivate>false</IsPrivate>
                                <Gender>Unspecified</Gender>
                                <TimeZone>None</TimeZone>
                            </contactInfo>
                            <propertiesChanged />
                            <fDeleted>false</fDeleted>
                            <lastChange>2024-11-20T11:26:00.4180000-08:00</lastChange>
                        </Contact>
                    </contacts>
                </ABFindAllResult>
                <ab>
                    <abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
                    <abInfo>
                        <ownerPuid>0</ownerPuid>
                        <OwnerCID>4294967298</OwnerCID>
                        <ownerEmail>example@hotmail.com</ownerEmail>
                        <fDefault>true</fDefault>
                        <joinedNamespace>false</joinedNamespace>
                        <IsBot>false</IsBot>
                        <IsParentManaged>false</IsParentManaged>
                        <SubscribeExternalPartner>false</SubscribeExternalPartner>
                        <NotifyExternalPartner>false</NotifyExternalPartner>
                        <AddressBookType>Individual</AddressBookType>
                    </abInfo>
                    <lastChange>2024-11-20T11:26:00.4180000-08:00</lastChange>
                    <DynamicItemLastChanged>0001-01-01T00:00:00</DynamicItemLastChanged>
                    <createDate>2024-10-10T20:38:51.0000000-08:00</createDate>
                </ab>
            </ABFindAllResponse>
        </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>