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I want to write a little LDAP 2 CardDav Gateway, which gets a request (from a Desktop Phone/PBX) on it's LDAP side and converts it to a CardDAV request.

So for I used raw HTTP/XML requests and was able to:

• Query the base directory /kdav/addressbooks/ with PROPFIND and depth: 1
• for results with <d:resourcetype><d:collection> repeat the query recursivly
• for results with <d:resourcetype><card:addressbook> add them to the addressbook list
• after the recursion is done a REPORT query with <card:addressbook-query><card:address-data><card:prop name="TEL"><card:prop name="N"></card:address-data> over the addreesbook list

Now this gives me currently the possibility to get all contacts and create a phonebook.xml, which can be fetched by my phones.

Unfortunatly I was unable to restrict the PROPFIND to only return results of <d:resourcetype><d:collection> or <d:resourcetype><card:addressbook>. This is problematic, as I can have nested addressbooks, which return all children on PROPFIND, in the worst case this means I query an addressbook, which has no nested address books, but 500 contacts, so I get 500 results back which I completely filter out on client side.

Any ideas on how to solve that more efficient?

Also here is an example of a response I currently get, which makes me assume that the addressbooks are nested. The server is Kopano and either I'm misinterpreting nested address books or it breaks the specification.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<d:multistatus
    xmlns:d="DAV:"
    xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns"
    xmlns:card="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:carddav"
    xmlns:cal="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav"
    xmlns:cs="http://calendarserver.org/ns/">
    <d:response>
        <d:href>/kdav/addressbooks/public/</d:href>
        <d:propstat>
            <d:prop>
                <d:resourcetype>
                    <d:collection/>
                </d:resourcetype>
            </d:prop>
            <d:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</d:status>
        </d:propstat>
    </d:response>
    <d:response>
        <d:href>/kdav/addressbooks/public/sdfsf/</d:href>
        <d:propstat>
            <d:prop>
                <d:resourcetype>
                    <d:collection/>
                    <card:addressbook/>
                </d:resourcetype>
            </d:prop>
            <d:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</d:status>
        </d:propstat>
    </d:response>
    <d:response>
        <d:href>/kdav/addressbooks/public/Test/</d:href>
        <d:propstat>
            <d:prop>
                <d:resourcetype>
                    <d:collection/>
                    <card:addressbook/>
                </d:resourcetype>
            </d:prop>
            <d:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</d:status>
        </d:propstat>
    </d:response>
</d:multistatus>