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Add an Attachment from a BinData Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddAttachmentBd method, which adds an attachment using the contents of a BinData object. The first argument is the attachment filename, the second is the BinData, and the third is the content type — if empty, it is inferred from the filename extension. This example loads a PDF into a BinData and attaches it.

Background: BinData is Chilkat's container for raw binary data. Attaching from a BinData is the right approach when the file's bytes are already in memory — generated on the fly, downloaded, or read from a database — rather than sitting on disk (which would use AddFileAttachment). Chilkat Base64-encodes the bytes into the message automatically.

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#include <CkEmail.h>
#include <CkBinData.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the AddAttachmentBd method, which adds an attachment using the contents of a
    //  BinData object.  The first argument is the attachment filename, the second is the BinData
    //  object, and the third is the content type (inferred from the filename extension if empty).

    CkEmail email;
    email.put_Subject("Attach from BinData");
    email.put_Body("Please see the attached file.");

    //  Load a file into a BinData object, then attach it.
    CkBinData bd;
    success = bd.LoadFile("qa_data/attachments/report.pdf");
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << bd.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return true;
    }

    success = email.AddAttachmentBd("report.pdf",bd,"application/pdf");
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << email.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return true;
    }

    std::cout << "NumAttachments = " << email.get_NumAttachments() << "\r\n";

    //  Note: The path "qa_data/attachments/report.pdf" is a relative local filesystem path,
    //  relative to the current working directory of the running application.
    }