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Send GMail using REST API

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Demonstrates how to send an email using the GMail REST API. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

;  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
;  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

;  Use the Chilkat Email API to create or load an email.
$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")

;  The From name/address don't need to be specified. 
;  GMail will automatically use your Gmail address if the following 2 lines are omitted.
$oEmail.FromName = "My Name"
$oEmail.FromAddress = "my_account_name@gmail.com"

$oEmail.AddTo("John Smith","somebody@somewhere.com")
;  To add more recipients, make additional calls to AddTo or AddCC, one per recipient...

$oEmail.Subject = "This is a test GMail email created using Chilkat."
$oEmail.Charset = "utf-8"
$oEmail.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("This is a test")

;  Create an HTML email body with an embedded image.
Local $sCid = $oEmail.AddRelatedFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
$oSbHtml = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oSbHtml.Append("<html><body>This is a <b>test</b><br><img src=""cid:STARFISH_CID""/></body></html>")
Local $iNumReplacements = $oSbHtml.Replace("STARFISH_CID",$sCid)

$oEmail.AddHtmlAlternativeBody($oSbHtml.GetAsString())

;  OK.. we now have an HTML email with an embedded JPG image
;  We'll need to get the full MIME of the email encoded to a base64url string.
$oSbMime = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oEmail.GetMimeSb($oSbMime)
$oSbMime.Encode("base64url","utf-8")

;  The body of the HTTP request will be JSON..
$oJson = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJson.UpdateSb("raw",$oSbMime)

;  Send the email...
$oHttp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Http")
$oHttp.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN"

Local $sUrl = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send"
$oResp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
$bSuccess = $oHttp.HttpJson("POST",$sUrl,$oJson,"application/json",$oResp)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oHttp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  A status code of 200 indicates success.
ConsoleWrite("Response status code: " & $oResp.StatusCode & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Response body:" & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite($oResp.BodyStr & @CRLF)

;  The response body contains JSON.
;  Use the online tool at Generate JSON Parsing Code
;  to generate JSON parsing code.

;  A sample successful JSON response:

;  {
;   "id": "166f0d4ac39e50bf",
;   "threadId": "166f0d4ac39e50bf",
;   "labelIds": [
;    "SENT"
;   ]
;  }