Ruby

Load an Email from a Chilkat XML String

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadXmlString method, which loads an email from a Chilkat XML representation held in a string, typically obtained from GetXml. On success, the loaded message replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email to XML, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the in-memory (string) counterpart to LoadXml, which reads from a file. Pairing GetXml with LoadXmlString lets you store an email's full state as text in a database column, cache, or message queue, then rebuild the Email object later — without touching the filesystem.

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require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  Demonstrates the LoadXmlString method, which loads an email from a Chilkat XML string
#  (typically obtained from GetXml).  On success, the loaded message replaces the entire
#  current email.

#  Create an email and serialize it to Chilkat XML (as GetXml would produce).
source = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
source.put_Subject("Saved email")
source.put_From("alice@example.com")
source.put_Body("Hello!")
xmlStr = source.getXml()

#  Load a new email object from the XML string.
email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
success = email.LoadXmlString(xmlStr)
if (success == false)
    print email.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Loaded subject: " + email.subject() + "\n";