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Check if a MIME Part is Text

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.IsText method, which returns whether the Content-Type begins with text/. It takes no arguments and applies to the current part.

Note: The file path is relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the path to your own file.

Background: IsText is the broad check for any textual part — text/plain, text/html, text/xml, and so on — which is what decides whether it is safe to decode the body to a string. For binary parts, decode to bytes instead. Use the narrower predicates when you need the exact text subtype.

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Java
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 Mime.IsText method, which returns whether the Content-Type begins with text/.  It takes no arguments and applies to the current
    //  part.  This example iterates the parts of a multipart message and reports which ones match.

    CkMime mime = new CkMime();
    success = mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/multipart_message.eml");
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(mime.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    int n = mime.get_NumParts();
    CkMime part = new CkMime();
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++) {
        success = mime.PartAt(i,part);
        if (success == false) {
            System.out.println(mime.lastErrorText());
            return;
            }

        if (part.IsText()) {
            System.out.println("Part " + i + " (" + part.contentType() + ") is text.");
            }

        }
  }
}