Get an Attachment's Bytes into a BinData

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachmentBd method, which copies an attachment's binary data into a BinData object. The first attachment is at index 0. This example adds an attachment and copies its bytes into a BinData, printing the byte count.

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the GetAttachmentBd method, which copies an attachment's binary data into a
    //  BinData object.  The first attachment is at index 0.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    email.put_Subject("GetAttachmentBd example");

    email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes stored in the attachment.");

    //  Copy the first attachment's binary data into a BinData object.
    CkBinData bd = new CkBinData();
    success = email.GetAttachmentBd(0,bd);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return true;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Attachment size (bytes) = " + String.valueOf(bd.get_NumBytes()));

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}