Java Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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--

Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Mime;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        Mime mime = new Mime();

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

        try {
            mime.loadMimeFile("sampleMime1.txt");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            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:
        Mime part1 = new Mime();
        try {
            mime.partAt(0, part1);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println(part1.getBodyDecoded());

        Mime part2 = new Mime();
        try {
            mime.partAt(1, part2);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println(part2.getBodyDecoded());

        Mime part3 = new Mime();
        try {
            mime.partAt(2, part3);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println(part3.getBodyDecoded());

        // 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..)
        System.out.println(part1.getBodyEncoded());
        System.out.println(part2.getBodyEncoded());
        System.out.println(part3.getBodyEncoded());
    }
}