I figured I would think aloud on the list since I have not found an answer
after extensively searching both the source code and the Internet:
The use case is that I want to clean up the HTML part of a message before
letting it go through to a blog (classic blog-post-by-email). I am able to
change the content of the MimePart, but after doing so the content type
changes to "text/plain" from its original and desired "text/html" This is
contrary to what I ask it to do in the call:
part.setContent(clean_html.getBytes("UTF-8"),
"text/html");
I have tried various variants including: part.setContent(clean_html,
"text/html"); and part.setContent(clean_html.getBytes("UTF-8"),
"text/html"); I also tried to create a brand new MimeBodyPart and try all
the variants above: part_new.setContent(clean_html, "text/html");
I even tried to get the OutputStream from the part so I could modify the
data in-place but this threw an exception saying writing was not allowed:
part.getDataHandler().getDataSource().getOutputStream();
The best I could come up in my search of the Internet was to so something
like: part.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(new
HTMLDataSource(clean_html)));where I would have to write a custom
class
HTMLDataSource (as per this link: http://www.vipan.com/htdocs/javamail.html).
The custom class is reasonably simple but I really want to avoid doing so
because it just seems like I would be duplicating standard functionality
available elsewhere.
I tried looking for the standard example mailets such as AddFooter but they
don't seem to be in the source any more.
Questions:
(a) is there something available in James that would do the same?
(b) is there something standard in Java or Java EE that would do the same?
I do have activation.jar and mail.jar on my classpath.
(c) how would you do this?
(d) any other way of implementing my use case?
Thanks for reading! Here is a simple, standalone class that demonstrates my
problem (need activation.jar and mail.jar on classpath):
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws
javax.mail.MessagingException, java.io.IOException {
javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart mime_body_part = new
javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart();
mime_body_part.setContent("<h1>foo</h1>", "text/html");
System.out.println(mime_body_part.getContent()); // OK
System.out.println(mime_body_part.getContentType()); // NOT OK
}
}
