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Save a MIME Body to a File

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Demonstrates how to save a MIME body to a file. The MIME data file used in this example is available at MIME Sample File.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoMime
    Variant vPTxt
    Handle hoPTxt
    Variant vMpRelated
    Handle hoMpRelated
    Variant vPHtml
    Handle hoPHtml
    Variant vPJpg
    Handle hoPJpg
    String sTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

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

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoMime
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoMime))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoMime
    End

    // The contents of this MIME file are shown below, 
    // and is also available at https://www.chilkatsoft.com/sampleMime.txt
    Get ComLoadMimeFile Of hoMime "qa_data/mime/sampleMime.txt" To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoMime To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // The MIME used in this example has the following nested structure
    // 
    // multipart/alternative
    //     text/plain
    //     multipart/related
    //         text/html
    //         image/jpeg
    // 

    // This example will save each of the non-multipart parts.
    // It will create three files -- a .txt, .html, and .jpg.

    // Save the body of the text/plain part.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoPTxt
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoPTxt))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoPTxt
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoPTxt to vPTxt
    Get ComPartAt Of hoMime 0 vPTxt To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoMime To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get ComSaveBody Of hoPTxt "qa_output/textPart.txt" To iSuccess

    // Save the HTML part.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoMpRelated
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoMpRelated))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoMpRelated
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoMpRelated to vMpRelated
    Get ComPartAt Of hoMime 1 vMpRelated To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoMime To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoPHtml
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoPHtml))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoPHtml
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoPHtml to vPHtml
    Get ComPartAt Of hoMpRelated 0 vPHtml To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoMpRelated To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get ComSaveBody Of hoPHtml "qa_output/htmlPart.html" To iSuccess

    // Save the JPG binary data.  (The data is automatically base64 decoded prior to saving.)

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoPJpg
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoPJpg))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoPJpg
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoPJpg to vPJpg
    Get ComPartAt Of hoMpRelated 1 vPJpg To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoMpRelated To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get ComSaveBody Of hoPJpg "qa_output/jpgPart.jpg" To iSuccess

    // --------------------------------------------------------------
    // --------------------------------------------------------------
    // The MIME sample file loaded at the beginning of this example
    // contains the following MIME:

    // Subject: Test email.
    // Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    // 	boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
    // MIME-Version: 1.0
    // 
    // --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0
    // Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed
    // Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    // 
    // This is a test.
    // 
    // --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0
    // Content-Type: multipart/related;
    // 	boundary="------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB"
    // 
    // --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
    // Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
    // Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
    // 
    // <html><head>
    // <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    //   </head>
    //   <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
    //     <p>This is a test.&nbsp; <img src="cid:part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com" height="20" width="20"></p>
    //   </body>
    // </html>
    // 
    // --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
    // Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="starfish20.jpg"
    // Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
    // Content-ID: <part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com>
    // Content-Disposition: inline; filename="starfish20.jpg"
    // 
    // /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD//gAmRmlsZSB3cml0dGVuIGJ5IEFkb2JlIFBob3Rvc2hvcD8g
    // NC4w/9sAQwAQCwwODAoQDg0OEhEQExgoGhgWFhgxIyUdKDozPTw5Mzg3QEhcTkBEV0U3OFBtUVdf
    // YmdoZz5NcXlwZHhcZWdj/9sAQwEREhIYFRgvGhovY0I4QmNjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj
    // Y2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj/8IAEQgAFAAUAwERAAIRAQMRAf/EABcAAAMBAAAA
    // AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDBAX/xAAYAQADAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEAP/aAAwDAQACEAMQAAAB2kZY
    // NNEijWKddfTmLgALWH//xAAbEAACAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMRAAQSE//aAAgBAQABBQL0XqN+
    // pM2aqJGMiqFFCyg7z//EABwRAAICAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAAIQIQMSUf/aAAgBAwEBPwHqU5aq
    // Axx+y1tMQl4elj//xAAcEQEAAQUBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABEQACEBIhA1H/2gAIAQIBAT8B3Bhqy7Zc
    // enyiwmGgDhiOzj//xAAdEAABAwUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAIREBIhIkFR/9oACAEBAAY/ArZyn+Cg
    // xtxWuJaoCnqDuin/xAAcEAABBAMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABABEhYRAxQVH/2gAIAQEAAT8hkEwPUUR9
    // DYfE4nxtRpIkBTsayuALIiuY/9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABDWPTsf/8QAGhEAAwADAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    // AAEREDFBIf/aAAgBAwEBPxC0DVPcWm+Ce4OesrkE6bjH/8QAGBEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREA
    // QRD/2gAIAQIBAT8QahMiOc8YgSrnTY3ELclHXn//xAAcEAEBAAIDAQEAAAAAAAAAAAABEQAhMUFx
    // EFH/2gAIAQEAAT8Qn3igmSZSj+c4N4zapMy9IjFV98wncN2iuLFsCEbDGxQkI6RO/n//2Q==
    // 
    // --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB--
    // 
    // --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0--
    // 


End_Procedure