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Add, Remove, Update MIME Header Fields

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Demonstrates how to add, remove, or update the content of MIME header fields.

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

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

    DECLARE @mime int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Mime', @mime OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- The contents of this MIME file are shown below, 
    -- and is also available at https://www.chilkatsoft.com/sampleMime.txt
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'LoadMimeFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/mime/sampleMime.txt'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @mime, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @mime
        RETURN
      END

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

    -- Adding a top-level MIME header is easy.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'AddHeaderField', @success OUT, 'hello-world', 'Hello World!'
    -- If a header field of the same name already exists, the AddHeaderField
    -- method adds a duplicate.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'AddHeaderField', @success OUT, 'Subject', 'This is the 2nd Subject header.'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'GetEntireHead', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    PRINT '-'

    -- The top-level header now looks like this:
    -- 
    -- 	Subject: Test email.
    -- 	Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
    -- 	MIME-Version: 1.0
    -- 	hello-world: Hello World!
    -- 	Subject: This is the 2nd Subject header.
    -- 

    -- The RemoveHeaderField method can remove the 1st occurrance, or all occurrences.
    DECLARE @bAllOccurrences int
    SELECT @bAllOccurrences = 1
    -- Remove all occurrences of the Subject header;
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'RemoveHeaderField', NULL, 'Subject', @bAllOccurrences
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'GetEntireHead', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    PRINT '-'

    -- After removing all Subject header fields, the top-level header now looks like this:
    -- 
    -- Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
    -- MIME-Version: 1.0
    -- hello-world: Hello World!
    -- 

    -- The content of a header field can be updated by calling SetHeaderField.
    -- If the header field does not already exist, it is added.  Otherwise it is updated.
    -- Note: The order of header fields SHOULD never matter.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'SetHeaderField', @success OUT, 'hello-world', 'Goodbye World.'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'GetEntireHead', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    PRINT '-'

    -- Now we have:
    -- 
    -- 	Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
    -- 	MIME-Version: 1.0
    -- 	hello-world: Goodbye World.
    -- 

    -- To add/update/delete header fields in sub-parts, navigate to
    -- the sub-part and do the same..

    DECLARE @mpRelated int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Mime', @mpRelated OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'PartAt', @success OUT, 1, @mpRelated

    DECLARE @pJpg int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Mime', @pJpg OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mpRelated, 'PartAt', @success OUT, 1, @pJpg

    -- Add a header to the image/jpeg sub-header.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @pJpg, 'SetHeaderField', @success OUT, 'CustomHeader', 'This is the custom header value.'

    -- View the entire MIME..
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'GetMime', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- --------------------------------------------------------------
    -- --------------------------------------------------------------
    -- 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--
    -- 

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @mime
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @mpRelated
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @pJpg


END
GO