Ruby

Save a Related Item to Disk

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveRelatedItem method, which saves the related item at a given zero-based index to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them. This example adds a related style sheet and saves it.

Background: Related items are the inline resources (images, style sheets) an HTML email carries in its multipart/related enclosure. SaveRelatedItem writes one of them out as a file — a building block for tasks like extracting a specific embedded image, or manually unpacking a message when you want finer control than the all-in-one UnpackHtml / AspUnpack methods provide.

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require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  Demonstrates the SaveRelatedItem method, which saves the related item at a given
#  zero-based index to a directory.  If the directory (or any of its components) does not
#  exist, Chilkat creates it.

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email.put_Subject("Save a related item")

#  Set an HTML body that references a related style sheet by name.
email.SetHtmlBody("<html><head><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"styles.css\"/></head><body>Styled.</body></html>")
email.AddRelatedString2("styles.css","body { color: navy; }","utf-8")

#  Save the related item at index 0 into the specified directory.
success = email.SaveRelatedItem(0,"qa_output/related")
if (success == false)
    print email.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Saved related item 0." + "\n";

#  Note: The path "qa_output/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
#  relative to the current working directory of the running application.