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Send GMail with Attachments
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Demonstrates how to send an email containing attachments using the GMail REST API.Chilkat Dart Downloads
import 'package:chilkat/chilkat.dart';
void main() {
// 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.
final email = CkEmail();
// 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.
final cid = email.addRelatedFile('qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg');
final sbHtml = CkStringBuilder();
sbHtml.append('<html><body>This is a <b>test</b><br><img src="cid:STARFISH_CID"/></body></html>');
final numReplacements = sbHtml.replace('STARFISH_CID', cid);
email.addHtmlAlternativeBody(sbHtml.getAsString());
// Add some attachments..
String mimeType;
try {
mimeType = email.addFileAttachment('qa_data/helloWorld.pdf');
} on ChilkatException {
print('Failed to add PDF attachment.');
return;
}
try {
mimeType = email.addFileAttachment('qa_data/msword/sample2.docx');
} on ChilkatException {
print('Failed to add MS-Word attachment.');
return;
}
// OK.. we now have an HTML email with 2 attachments..
final sbMime = CkStringBuilder();
email.getMimeSb(sbMime);
// Send the email. (GMail has a 5MB limit on the total email size.)
final http = CkHttp();
http.authToken = 'GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN';
// Send using the simple upload request for the Gmail API
final url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/upload/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send?uploadType=media';
final resp = CkHttpResponse();
try {
http.httpSb('POST', url, sbMime, 'utf-8', 'message/rfc822', resp);
} on ChilkatException catch (e) {
print(e.lastErrorText);
return;
}
// A status code of 200 indicates success.
print('Response status code: ${resp.statusCode}');
print('Response body:');
print(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"
// ]
// }
}