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Set a MIME Body from Transfer-Encoded Text

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.SetBodyFromEncoded method, which sets the body from already transfer-encoded text. The first argument is the encoding (base64 or quoted-printable) and the second is the encoded text.

Background: Sometimes you already hold content in its encoded form — a Base64 string from a database or another API — and re-decoding just to have Chilkat re-encode it is wasteful. This method stores the encoded text as-is and records the matching transfer encoding, so the body is correct without a needless round trip. Only the standard reversible encodings, Base64 and quoted-printable, are accepted.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMime
LOCAL lcBase64Body
LOCAL lcDecoded

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the Mime.SetBodyFromEncoded method, which sets the body from already transfer-
*  encoded text.  The 1st argument is the encoding ("base64" or "quoted-printable") and the 2nd is
*  the encoded text.

loMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.Mime')

loMime.ContentType = "text/plain"

*  The body is provided already Base64-encoded; Chilkat stores it without re-encoding.
lcBase64Body = "SGVsbG8sIHRoaXMgaXMgdGhlIGJvZHku"
lnSuccess = loMime.SetBodyFromEncoded("base64",lcBase64Body)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  The decoded body is the original text.
lcDecoded = loMime.GetBodyDecoded()
IF (loMime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcDecoded

RELEASE loMime