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Build an EDIFACT Email Body

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetEdifactBody method, a convenience that constructs the customary MIME headers and body for sending an EDIFACT message. It sets the body to the EDIFACT content, sets Content-Transfer-Encoding to Base64, sets Content-Type to application/EDIFACT (with a name attribute from the 2nd argument), and sets Content-Disposition to attachment (with a filename from the 3rd argument). The 4th argument is the charset the message is converted to before Base64 encoding. The subject, recipients, and FROM are left unchanged.

Background: EDIFACT is a long-standing international standard for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) — structured business documents such as purchase orders (ORDERS) and invoices (INVOIC) exchanged between trading partners. Sending EDIFACT over email requires wrapping the payload in a specific set of MIME headers; SetEdifactBody handles that boilerplate so the message is formatted the way EDI systems expect.

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const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    // Demonstrates the SetEdifactBody method, which builds a typical email for sending an
    // EDIFACT message.  It sets the body to the EDIFACT content, sets Content-Transfer-Encoding
    // to Base64, Content-Type to application/EDIFACT (with a name attribute), and
    // Content-Disposition to attachment (with a filename).  The fourth argument is the charset.

    const email = try chilkat.Email.init();
    defer email.deinit();
    email.setSubject("EDIFACT ORDERS message");
    email.setFrom("edi@example.com");
    email.addTo("Trading Partner", "partner@example.com") catch {};

    // The EDIFACT message content (an ORDERS interchange, abbreviated here).
    const edi = "UNA:+.? 'UNB+UNOB:1+SENDER+RECEIVER+260710:1200+1'UNH+1+ORDERS:D:96A:UN'BGM+220+ORD12345+9'UNT+3+1'UNZ+1+1'";

    // Build the EDIFACT email body.
    email.setEdifactBody(edi, "order.edi", "order.edi", "iso-8859-1");

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try email.getMime(alloc)});
}