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Send GMail using REST API
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Demonstrates how to send an email using the GMail REST API.Chilkat B4X Downloads
Dim success As Boolean = 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.
Dim email As ChilkatEmail
email.Initialize
' The From name/address don't need to be specified.
' GMail will automatically use your Gmail address if the following 2 lines are omitted.
email.FromName = "My Name"
email.FromAddress = "my_account_name@gmail.com"
email.AddTo("John Smith", "somebody@somewhere.com")
' To add more recipients, make additional calls to AddTo or AddCC, one per recipient...
email.Subject = "This is a test GMail email created using Chilkat."
email.Charset = "utf-8"
email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("This is a test")
' Create an HTML email body with an embedded image.
Dim cid As String = email.AddRelatedFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
Dim sbHtml As ChilkatStringBuilder
sbHtml.Initialize
sbHtml.Append("<html><body>This is a <b>test</b><br><img src=" & Chr(34) & "cid:STARFISH_CID" & Chr(34) & "/></body></html>")
Dim numReplacements As Int = sbHtml.Replace("STARFISH_CID", cid)
email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody(sbHtml.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.
Dim sbMime As ChilkatStringBuilder
sbMime.Initialize
email.GetMimeSb(sbMime)
sbMime.Encode("base64url", "utf-8")
' The body of the HTTP request will be JSON..
Dim json As ChilkatJsonObject
json.Initialize
json.UpdateSb("raw", sbMime)
' Send the email...
Dim http As ChilkatHttp
http.Initialize("http")
http.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN"
Dim url As String = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send"
Dim resp As ChilkatHttpResponse
resp.Initialize
success = http.HttpJson("POST", url, json, "application/json", resp)
If success = False Then
Log(http.LastErrorText)
Return
End If
' A status code of 200 indicates success.
Log("Response status code: " & resp.StatusCode)
Log("Response body:")
Log(resp.BodyStr)
' 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"
' ]
' }