Visual FoxPro

Create GMail Draft

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Demonstrates how to create a new GMail draft email. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL loSbMime
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL lcUrl
LOCAL loResp

lnSuccess = 0

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

*  Use the Chilkat Email API to create or load an email.
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "This is a test GMail email created using Chilkat."
loEmail.Charset = "utf-8"
loEmail.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("This is a test")
loEmail.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body><p>This is a <b>test</b></body></html>")

*  We'll need to get the full MIME of the email encoded to a base64url string.
loSbMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loEmail.GetMimeSb(loSbMime)
loSbMime.Encode("base64url","utf-8")

*  The body of the HTTP request will be JSON..
loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJson.UpdateSb("message.raw",loSbMime)

*  Upload the email to GMail as a draft.
loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')
loHttp.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN"

lcUrl = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/drafts"
loResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpResponse')
lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpJson("POST",lcUrl,loJson,"application/json",loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    RELEASE loSbMime
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  A status code of 200 indicates success.
? "Response status code: " + STR(loResp.StatusCode)
? "Response body:"
? loResp.BodyStr

*  The response body contains JSON.
*  Use the online tool at Generate JSON Parsing Code
*  to generate JSON parsing code.

*  A sample successful JSON response:

*  {
*   "id": "r-2607584557788895307",
*   "message": {
*    "id": "166f09932c662e93",
*    "threadId": "166f09932c662e93",
*    "labelIds": [
*     "DRAFT"
*    ]
*   }
*  }

RELEASE loEmail
RELEASE loSbMime
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loResp