Visual FoxPro

Get a Summary of the MIME Structure

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetStructure method, which returns a concise summary of the MIME tree. The only argument selects the format: xml for XML, or text (the default for any other value) for a plain-text outline.

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Background: A real message can nest multipart containers several levels deep — a multipart/mixed holding a multipart/alternative of text and HTML plus attachments — and GetStructure renders that hierarchy at a glance without the full content. It is the fast way to understand or debug an unfamiliar message's layout, in either a readable text outline or machine-parseable XML.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMime
LOCAL lcStructure

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the Mime.GetStructure method, which returns a concise summary of the MIME tree.
*  The only argument selects the output format: "xml" for XML, or "text" (the default) for a
*  plain-text outline.

loMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.Mime')

lnSuccess = loMime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/multipart_message.eml")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Get a human-readable text outline of the MIME structure.
lcStructure = loMime.GetStructure("text")
IF (loMime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcStructure

RELEASE loMime