Ruby

Set the Email Body from a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetBodyBd method, which sets the main email body from the binary data in a BinData object. The second argument is the MIME Content-Type, the third is the disposition (may be empty, inline, or attachment), and the fourth is the filename. This example loads HTML content into a BinData and sets it as the body.

Background: SetBodyBd gives low-level control over the body when you already have its bytes and want to specify the exact Content-Type and MIME disposition yourself. It suits content that is generated or stored as binary — for example an EDI payload, a pre-rendered HTML fragment, or any custom content type — where the convenience of SetHtmlBody / SetTextBody does not apply.

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require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  Demonstrates the SetBodyBd method, which sets the main email body from the binary data in
#  a BinData object.  The second argument is the MIME Content-Type, the third is the
#  disposition (may be empty, "inline", or "attachment"), and the fourth is the filename.

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email.put_Subject("Body from BinData")

#  Load the body content from a file into a BinData object.
bd = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()
success = bd.LoadFile("qa_data/html/body.html")
if (success == false)
    print bd.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Set the main body from the binary data as text/html.
success = email.SetBodyBd(bd,"text/html","","")
if (success == false)
    print email.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "HasHtmlBody: " + email.HasHtmlBody().to_s() + "\n";

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