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Add a Related Item from a BinData Object

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddRelatedBd method, which adds a related item (such as an inline image) using the contents of a BinData object, and returns the generated Content-ID. This example loads an image into a BinData, adds it, captures the Content-ID, and references it from the HTML body.

Background: This is the binary, Content-ID-based way to embed an inline resource — the right choice for images, whose bytes belong in a BinData rather than a string. Because Chilkat generates the Content-ID, the usual pattern is: add the item first, capture the returned ID, then build the matching <img src="cid:..."> reference from it (done here with a StringBuilder).

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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the AddRelatedBd method, which adds a related item (such as an inline image)
    //  using the contents of a BinData object, and returns the generated Content-ID.

    var email = new chilkat.Email();
    email.Subject = "Related image from BinData";

    //  Load the image data from a file into a BinData object.
    var bdImage = new chilkat.BinData();
    success = bdImage.LoadFile("qa_data/images/logo.png");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(bdImage.LastErrorText);
        return true;
    }

    //  Add the image as a related item; capture its generated Content-ID.
    var cid = email.AddRelatedBd("logo.png",bdImage);
    if (email.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
        console.log(email.LastErrorText);
        return true;
    }

    //  Reference the related item in the HTML body by its Content-ID.
    var sbHtml = new chilkat.StringBuilder();
    sbHtml.Append("<html><body><img src=\"cid:PLACEHOLDER_CID\"/></body></html>");
    var numReplaced = sbHtml.Replace("PLACEHOLDER_CID",cid);
    email.SetHtmlBody(sbHtml.GetAsString());

    console.log("NumRelatedItems = " + email.NumRelatedItems);

    //  Note: The path "qa_data/images/logo.png" is a relative local filesystem path,
    //  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

}

chilkatExample();