Java

Get an Alternative Body into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAlternativeBodyBd method, which copies the contents of the Nth alternative body into a BinData object. The first alternative body is at index 0, and it should only be called when NumAlternatives is greater than 0. This example builds a message with plain-text and HTML alternatives and copies the first into a BinData.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to GetAlternativeBody (which returns text). Reading an alternative into a BinData preserves the exact bytes — important when a body part uses a binary or unusual transfer encoding, or when you intend to hash it or write it out verbatim rather than decode it to a string.

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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[])
  {
    boolean success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the GetAlternativeBodyBd method, which copies the contents of the Nth
    //  alternative body into a BinData object.  The first alternative body is at index 0; call
    //  only when NumAlternatives is greater than 0.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    email.put_Subject("GetAlternativeBodyBd example");

    email.SetTextBody("This is the plain-text alternative.","text/plain");
    email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML alternative.</body></html>");

    //  Copy the first alternative body (index 0) into a BinData object.
    CkBinData bd = new CkBinData();

    success = email.GetAlternativeBodyBd(0,bd);
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    System.out.println("Alternative 0 size (bytes) = " + bd.get_NumBytes());
  }
}