class Mail::Body
Body¶ ↑
The body is where the text of the email is stored. Mail treats the body as a single object. The body itself has no information about boundaries used in the MIME standard, it just looks at its content as either a single block of text, or (if it is a multipart message) as an array of blocks of text.
A body has to be told to split itself up into a multipart message by calling split with the correct boundary. This is because the body object has no way of knowing what the correct boundary is for itself (there could be many boundaries in a body in the case of a nested MIME text).
Once split is called, Mail::Body will slice itself up on this boundary, assigning anything that appears before the first part to the preamble, and anything that appears after the closing boundary to the epilogue, then each part gets initialized into a Mail::Part object.
The boundary that is used to split up the Body is also stored in the Body object for use on encoding itself back out to a string. You can overwrite this if it needs to be changed.
On encoding, the body will return the preamble, then each part joined by the boundary, followed by a closing boundary string and then the epilogue.
Public Class Methods
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 29 def initialize(string = '') @boundary = nil @preamble = nil @epilogue = nil @charset = nil @part_sort_order = [ "text/plain", "text/enriched", "text/html" ] @parts = Mail::PartsList.new if Utilities.blank?(string) @raw_source = '' else # Do join first incase we have been given an Array in Ruby 1.9 if string.respond_to?(:join) @raw_source = string.join('') elsif string.respond_to?(:to_s) @raw_source = string.to_s else raise "You can only assign a string or an object that responds_to? :join or :to_s to a body." end end @encoding = (only_us_ascii? ? '7bit' : '8bit') set_charset end
Public Instance Methods
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 250 def <<( val ) if @parts @parts << val else @parts = Mail::PartsList.new[val] end end
Matches this body with another body. Also matches the decoded value of this body with a string.
Examples:
body = Mail::Body.new('The body') body == body #=> true body = Mail::Body.new('The body') body == 'The body' #=> true body = Mail::Body.new("VGhlIGJvZHk=\n") body.encoding = 'base64' body == "The body" #=> true
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 66 def ==(other) if other.class == String self.decoded == other else super end end
Accepts a string and performs a regular expression against the decoded text
Examples:
body = Mail::Body.new('The body') body =~ /The/ #=> 0 body = Mail::Body.new("VGhlIGJvZHk=\n") body.encoding = 'base64' body =~ /The/ #=> 0
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 84 def =~(regexp) self.decoded =~ regexp end
Returns the boundary used by the body
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 237 def boundary @boundary end
Allows you to change the boundary of this Body object
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 242 def boundary=( val ) @boundary = val end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 187 def charset @charset end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 191 def charset=( val ) @charset = val end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 175 def decoded if !Encodings.defined?(encoding) raise UnknownEncodingType, "Don't know how to decode #{encoding}, please call #encoded and decode it yourself." else Encodings.get_encoding(encoding).decode(raw_source) end end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 274 def empty? !!raw_source.to_s.empty? end
Returns a body encoded using transfer_encoding. Multipart always uses an identiy encoding (i.e. no encoding). Calling this directly is not a good idea, but supported for compatibility TODO: Validate that preamble and epilogue are valid for requested encoding
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 150 def encoded(transfer_encoding = '8bit') if multipart? self.sort_parts! encoded_parts = parts.map { |p| p.encoded } ([preamble] + encoded_parts).join(crlf_boundary) + end_boundary + epilogue.to_s else be = get_best_encoding(transfer_encoding) dec = Mail::Encodings::get_encoding(encoding) enc = Mail::Encodings::get_encoding(be) if dec.nil? # Cannot decode, so skip normalization raw_source else # Decode then encode to normalize and allow transforming # from base64 to Q-P and vice versa decoded = dec.decode(raw_source) if defined?(Encoding) && charset && charset != "US-ASCII" decoded.encode!(charset) decoded.force_encoding('BINARY') unless Encoding.find(charset).ascii_compatible? end enc.encode(decoded) end end end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 195 def encoding(val = nil) if val self.encoding = val else @encoding end end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 203 def encoding=( val ) @encoding = if val == "text" || Utilities.blank?(val) (only_us_ascii? ? '7bit' : '8bit') else val end end
Returns the epilogue (any text that is after the last MIME boundary)
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 222 def epilogue @epilogue end
Sets the epilogue to a string (adds text after the last MIME boundary)
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 227 def epilogue=( val ) @epilogue = val end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 141 def get_best_encoding(target) target_encoding = Mail::Encodings.get_encoding(target) target_encoding.get_best_compatible(encoding, raw_source) end
Accepts anything that responds to to_s and checks if it's a substring of the decoded text
Examples:
body = Mail::Body.new('The body') body.include?('The') #=> true body = Mail::Body.new("VGhlIGJvZHk=\n") body.encoding = 'base64' body.include?('The') #=> true
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 112 def include?(other) self.decoded.include?(other.to_s) end
Accepts a string and performs a regular expression against the decoded text
Examples:
body = Mail::Body.new('The body') body.match(/The/) #=> #<MatchData "The"> body = Mail::Body.new("VGhlIGJvZHk=\n") body.encoding = 'base64' body.match(/The/) #=> #<MatchData "The">
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 98 def match(regexp) self.decoded.match(regexp) end
Returns true if there are parts defined in the body
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 232 def multipart? true unless parts.empty? end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 270 def only_us_ascii? !(raw_source =~ /[^\x01-\x7f]/) end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 246 def parts @parts end
Returns the preamble (any text that is before the first MIME boundary)
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 212 def preamble @preamble end
Sets the preamble to a string (adds text before the first MIME boundary)
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 217 def preamble=( val ) @preamble = val end
Returns the raw source that the body was initialized with, without any tampering
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 137 def raw_source @raw_source end
Allows you to set the sort order of the parts, overriding the default sort order. Defaults to 'text/plain', then 'text/enriched', then 'text/html' with any other content type coming after.
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 119 def set_sort_order(order) @part_sort_order = order end
Allows you to sort the parts according to the default sort order, or the sort order you set with :set_sort_order.
sort_parts! is also called from :encode, so there is no need for you to call this explicitly
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 127 def sort_parts! @parts.each do |p| p.body.set_sort_order(@part_sort_order) p.body.sort_parts! end @parts.sort!(@part_sort_order) end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 258 def split!(boundary) self.boundary = boundary parts = extract_parts # Make the preamble equal to the preamble (if any) self.preamble = parts[0].to_s.strip # Make the epilogue equal to the epilogue (if any) self.epilogue = parts[-1].to_s.strip parts[1...-1].to_a.each { |part| @parts << Mail::Part.new(part) } self end
# File lib/mail/body.rb, line 183 def to_s decoded end