Java

Add a Related String Resource to an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddRelatedString method, which adds a text-based related MIME resource, such as a style sheet, from an in-memory string and returns the generated Content-ID. The first argument is the MIME resource name, the second is the text content, and the third is the charset used to encode it. Because the Content-ID is generated by the call, this example adds the style sheet first, then builds an HTML body in a StringBuilder that references the style sheet by that cid:, and passes the result to SetHtmlBody.

Background: Related items are not always images loaded from disk — sometimes the resource is text you already have in memory, like a generated CSS style sheet or an SVG. AddRelatedString lets you embed such content directly without writing a temporary file first. As with other related items, it lives in the multipart/related enclosure and is referenced from the HTML by the Content-ID the method returns.

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    //  Demonstrates the AddRelatedString method, which adds a text-based related MIME resource
    //  (such as a style sheet) from an in-memory string and returns the generated Content-ID.
    //  The first argument is the resource name, the second is the text content, the third is the charset.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    email.put_Subject("Email with a related style sheet");

    //  Add the text-based related resource first; capture the generated Content-ID.
    String cid = email.addRelatedString("styles.css","body { color: navy; }","utf-8");
    if (email.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        System.out.println(email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Build the HTML body, referencing the related style sheet by its Content-ID.  A
    //  placeholder is used and then replaced with the actual Content-ID.
    CkStringBuilder sbHtml = new CkStringBuilder();
    sbHtml.Append("<html><head><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"cid:PLACEHOLDER_CID\"/></head><body>Styled content.</body></html>");
    int numReplaced = sbHtml.Replace("PLACEHOLDER_CID",cid);
    email.SetHtmlBody(sbHtml.getAsString());

    System.out.println("Related Content-ID = " + cid);
    System.out.println("NumRelatedItems = " + email.get_NumRelatedItems());
  }
}