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Check if a MIME Part is an Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.IsAttachment method, which returns whether the current part's Content-Disposition is attachment (matched case-insensitively). It takes no arguments.

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: Whether a part is an attachment is about disposition, not content type — an image can be inline (Content-Disposition: inline) or an attachment. This predicate keys off that header, which is the right basis for deciding what to list as a downloadable attachment versus what to render within the message body.

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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oMime
LOCAL n
LOCAL oPart
LOCAL i

nSuccess := 0

//  Demonstrates the Mime.IsAttachment method, which returns whether the part's Content-Disposition is attachment.  It takes no arguments and applies to the current
//  part.  This example iterates the parts of a multipart message and reports which ones match.

oMime := CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")
nSuccess := oMime:LoadMimeFile("qa_data/multipart_message.eml")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oMime:LastErrorText
    oMime:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

n := oMime:NumParts
oPart := CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")

FOR i := 0 TO n - 1
    nSuccess := oMime:PartAt(i, oPart)
    IF (nSuccess == 0)
        ? oMime:LastErrorText
        oMime:destroy()
        oPart:destroy()
        RETURN
    ENDIF

    IF (oPart:IsAttachment())
        ? "Part " + Str(i) + " (" + oPart:ContentType + ") is an attachment."
    ENDIF

NEXT

oMime:destroy()
oPart:destroy()