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Get the text body content of a MIME part.

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Explains and demonstrates the GetBodyEncoded and GetBodyDecoded methods. This example uses the MIME test data located at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/sampleMime1.txt

The sampleMime1.txt contains:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="------------070404010201060604000708";

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--------------070404010201060604000708
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8";

Falsches =C3=9Cben von Xylophonmusik qu=C3=A4lt jeden gr=C3=B6=C3=9Feren Zwe=
rg.
--------------070404010201060604000708
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8";

RmFsc2NoZXMgw5xiZW4gdm9uIFh5bG9waG9ubXVzaWsgcXXDpGx0IGplZGVuIGdyw7bDn2VyZW4g
Wndlcmcu

--------------070404010201060604000708
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1";

Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg.
--------------070404010201060604000708--

Zig

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

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

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    const mime = try chilkat.Mime.init();
    defer mime.deinit();

    // Load the sampleMime1.txt file into the MIME object.
    // (This file is available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/sampleMime1.txt )

    mime.loadMimeFile("sampleMime1.txt") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try mime.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // The sampleMime1.txt is a MIME document with a top-level
    // multipart/mixed containing 3 sub-parts, each of which has the
    // same body text but with different content-transfer-encodings and
    // using different character encodings (utf-8 and iso-8859-1).

    // Calling mime.GetBodyEncoded or mime.GetBodyDecoded on the
    // top-level multipart/mixed MIME object will return an empty string.
    // It is because the "body" of a multipart MIME object is always empty.
    // A multipart MIME object contains sub-parts (each a MIME object),
    // and it is only the leaf-objects that can have non-empty bodies.

    // Get GetBodyDecoded method returns the body text decoded
    // from whatever the content-transfer-encoding may be, and
    // converted from whatever charset encoding might be used.
    // In this case, calling GetBodyDecoded on each of the three
    // sub-parts will return the same string.
    // To demonstrate:
    const part1 = try chilkat.Mime.init();
    defer part1.deinit();
    mime.partAt(0, part1) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try mime.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try part1.getBodyDecoded(alloc)});

    const part2 = try chilkat.Mime.init();
    defer part2.deinit();
    mime.partAt(1, part2) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try mime.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try part2.getBodyDecoded(alloc)});

    const part3 = try chilkat.Mime.init();
    defer part3.deinit();
    mime.partAt(2, part3) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try mime.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try part3.getBodyDecoded(alloc)});

    // The GetBodyEncoded method will NOT decode from
    // whatever content-transfer-encoding is used.  However, it will
    // convert from whatever internal character encoding
    // may be used to return a string appropriate for the calling
    // programming language (for example, in .NET or any language
    // using ActiveX, all strings are Unicode..)
    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try part1.getBodyEncoded(alloc)});
    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try part2.getBodyEncoded(alloc)});
    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try part3.getBodyEncoded(alloc)});
}