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PureBasic Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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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IncludeFile "CkMime.pb"

Procedure ChilkatExample()

    success.i = 0

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

    mime.i = CkMime::ckCreate()
    If mime.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    ;  The contents of this MIME file are shown below, 
    ;  and is also available at https://www.chilkatsoft.com/sampleMime.txt
    success = CkMime::ckLoadMimeFile(mime,"qa_data/mime/sampleMime.txt")
    If success = 0
        Debug CkMime::ckLastErrorText(mime)
        CkMime::ckDispose(mime)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    ;  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.

    pTxt.i = CkMime::ckCreate()
    If pTxt.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    success = CkMime::ckPartAt(mime,0,pTxt)
    If success = 0
        Debug CkMime::ckLastErrorText(mime)
        CkMime::ckDispose(mime)
        CkMime::ckDispose(pTxt)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    CkMime::ckSaveBody(pTxt,"qa_output/textPart.txt")

    ;  Save the HTML part.

    mpRelated.i = CkMime::ckCreate()
    If mpRelated.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    success = CkMime::ckPartAt(mime,1,mpRelated)
    If success = 0
        Debug CkMime::ckLastErrorText(mime)
        CkMime::ckDispose(mime)
        CkMime::ckDispose(pTxt)
        CkMime::ckDispose(mpRelated)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    pHtml.i = CkMime::ckCreate()
    If pHtml.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    success = CkMime::ckPartAt(mpRelated,0,pHtml)
    If success = 0
        Debug CkMime::ckLastErrorText(mpRelated)
        CkMime::ckDispose(mime)
        CkMime::ckDispose(pTxt)
        CkMime::ckDispose(mpRelated)
        CkMime::ckDispose(pHtml)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    CkMime::ckSaveBody(pHtml,"qa_output/htmlPart.html")

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

    pJpg.i = CkMime::ckCreate()
    If pJpg.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    success = CkMime::ckPartAt(mpRelated,1,pJpg)
    If success = 0
        Debug CkMime::ckLastErrorText(mpRelated)
        CkMime::ckDispose(mime)
        CkMime::ckDispose(pTxt)
        CkMime::ckDispose(mpRelated)
        CkMime::ckDispose(pHtml)
        CkMime::ckDispose(pJpg)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    CkMime::ckSaveBody(pJpg,"qa_output/jpgPart.jpg")

    ;  --------------------------------------------------------------
    ;  --------------------------------------------------------------
    ;  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--
    ;  


    CkMime::ckDispose(mime)
    CkMime::ckDispose(pTxt)
    CkMime::ckDispose(mpRelated)
    CkMime::ckDispose(pHtml)
    CkMime::ckDispose(pJpg)


    ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure