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MimeKit

MimeVisitor Class

Represents a visitor for MIME trees.
Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
  MimeKitMimeVisitor

Namespace: MimeKit
Assembly: MimeKit (in MimeKit.dll) Version: 4.7.1
Syntax
C#
public abstract class MimeVisitor

The MimeVisitor type exposes the following members.

Constructors
 NameDescription
Protected methodMimeVisitorInitializes a new instance of the MimeVisitor class
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Methods
 NameDescription
Public methodEquals
(Inherited from Object)
Protected methodFinalize
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodGetHashCode
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodGetType
(Inherited from Object)
Protected methodMemberwiseClone
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodToString
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodVisit(MimeEntity) Dispatches the entity to one of the more specialized visit methods in this class.
Public methodVisit(MimeMessage) Dispatches the message to one of the more specialized visit methods in this class.
Protected methodVisitApplicationPgpEncrypted Visit the application/pgp-encrypted MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitApplicationPgpSignature Visit the application/pgp-signature MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitApplicationPkcs7Mime Visit the application/pkcs7-mime MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitApplicationPkcs7Signature Visit the application/pkcs7-signature MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitBody Visit the body of the message.
Protected methodVisitChildren Visit the children of a Multipart.
Protected methodVisitMessage Visit the message contained within a message/rfc822 or message/news MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitMessageDeliveryStatus Visit the message/delivery-status MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitMessageDispositionNotification Visit the message/disposition-notification MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitMessageFeedbackReport Visit the message/feedback-report MIME entity.
Protected methodCode exampleVisitMessagePart Visit the message/rfc822 or message/news MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitMessagePartial Visit the message/partial MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitMimeEntity Visit the abstract MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitMimeMessage Visit the MIME message.
Protected methodCode exampleVisitMimePart Visit the abstract MIME part entity.
Protected methodVisitMultipart Visit the abstract multipart MIME entity.
Protected methodCode exampleVisitMultipartAlternative Visit the multipart/alternative MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitMultipartEncrypted Visit the multipart/encrypted MIME entity.
Protected methodCode exampleVisitMultipartRelated Visit the multipart/related MIME entity.
Protected methodCode exampleVisitMultipartReport Visit the multipart/report MIME entity.
Protected methodVisitMultipartSigned Visit the multipart/signed MIME entity.
Protected methodCode exampleVisitTextPart Visit the text-based MIME part entity.
Protected methodCode exampleVisitTextRfc822Headers Visit the text/rfc822-headers MIME entity.
Protected methodCode exampleVisitTnefPart Visit the Microsoft TNEF MIME part entity.
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Remarks
This class is designed to be inherited to create more specialized classes whose functionality requires traversing, examining or copying a MIME tree.
Example
C#
/// <summary>
/// Visits a MimeMessage and generates HTML suitable to be rendered by a browser control.
/// </summary>
class HtmlPreviewVisitor : MimeVisitor
{
    List<MultipartRelated> stack = new List<MultipartRelated> ();
    List<MimeEntity> attachments = new List<MimeEntity> ();
    string body;

    /// <summary>
    /// Creates a new HtmlPreviewVisitor.
    /// </summary>
    public HtmlPreviewVisitor ()
    {
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// The list of attachments that were in the MimeMessage.
    /// </summary>
    public IList<MimeEntity> Attachments {
        get { return attachments; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// The HTML string that can be set on the BrowserControl.
    /// </summary>
    public string HtmlBody {
        get { return body ?? string.Empty; }
    }

    protected override void VisitMultipartAlternative (MultipartAlternative alternative)
    {
        // walk the multipart/alternative children backwards from greatest level of faithfulness to the least faithful
        for (int i = alternative.Count - 1; i >= 0 && body == null; i--)
            alternative[i].Accept (this);
    }

    protected override void VisitMultipartRelated (MultipartRelated related)
    {
        var root = related.Root;

        // push this multipart/related onto our stack
        stack.Add (related);

        // visit the root document
        root.Accept (this);

        // pop this multipart/related off our stack
        stack.RemoveAt (stack.Count - 1);
    }

    // look up the image based on the img src url within our multipart/related stack
    bool TryGetImage (string url, out MimePart image)
    {
        UriKind kind;
        int index;
        Uri uri;

        if (Uri.IsWellFormedUriString (url, UriKind.Absolute))
            kind = UriKind.Absolute;
        else if (Uri.IsWellFormedUriString (url, UriKind.Relative))
            kind = UriKind.Relative;
        else
            kind = UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute;

        try {
            uri = new Uri (url, kind);
        } catch {
            image = null;
            return false;
        }

        for (int i = stack.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            if ((index = stack[i].IndexOf (uri)) == -1)
                continue;

            image = stack[i][index] as MimePart;
            return image != null;
        }

        image = null;

        return false;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Get a data: URI for the image attachment.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// Encodes the image attachment into a string suitable for setting as a src= attribute value in
    /// an img tag.
    /// </remarks>
    /// <returns>The data: URI.</returns>
    /// <param name="image">The image attachment.</param>
    string GetDataUri (MimePart image)
    {
        using (var memory = new MemoryStream ()) {
            image.Content.DecodeTo (memory);
            var buffer = memory.GetBuffer ();
            var length = (int) memory.Length;
            var base64 = Convert.ToBase64String (buffer, 0, length);

            return string.Format ("data:{0};base64,{1}", image.ContentType.MimeType, base64);
        }
    }

    // Replaces <img src=...> urls that refer to images embedded within the message with
    // "file://" urls that the browser control will actually be able to load.
    void HtmlTagCallback (HtmlTagContext ctx, HtmlWriter htmlWriter)
    {
        if (ctx.TagId == HtmlTagId.Meta && !ctx.IsEndTag) {
            bool isContentType = false;

            ctx.WriteTag (htmlWriter, false);

            // replace charsets with "utf-8" since our output will be in utf-8 (and not whatever the original charset was)
            foreach (var attribute in ctx.Attributes) {
                if (attribute.Id == HtmlAttributeId.Charset) {
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeName (attribute.Name);
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeValue ("utf-8");
                } else if (isContentType && attribute.Id == HtmlAttributeId.Content) {
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeName (attribute.Name);
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeValue ("text/html; charset=utf-8");
                } else {
                    if (attribute.Id == HtmlAttributeId.HttpEquiv && attribute.Value != null
                        && attribute.Value.Equals ("Content-Type", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                        isContentType = true;

                    htmlWriter.WriteAttribute (attribute);
                }
            }
        } else if (ctx.TagId == HtmlTagId.Image && !ctx.IsEndTag && stack.Count > 0) {
            ctx.WriteTag (htmlWriter, false);

            // replace the src attribute with a "data:" URL
            foreach (var attribute in ctx.Attributes) {
                if (attribute.Id == HtmlAttributeId.Src) {
                    if (!TryGetImage (attribute.Value, out var image)) {
                        htmlWriter.WriteAttribute (attribute);
                        continue;
                    }

                    var dataUri = GetDataUri (image);

                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeName (attribute.Name);
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeValue (dataUri);
                } else {
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttribute (attribute);
                }
            }
        } else if (ctx.TagId == HtmlTagId.Body && !ctx.IsEndTag) {
            ctx.WriteTag (htmlWriter, false);

            // add and/or replace oncontextmenu="return false;"
            foreach (var attribute in ctx.Attributes) {
                if (attribute.Name.Equals ("oncontextmenu", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    continue;

                htmlWriter.WriteAttribute (attribute);
            }

            htmlWriter.WriteAttribute ("oncontextmenu", "return false;");
        } else {
            // pass the tag through to the output
            ctx.WriteTag (htmlWriter, true);
        }
    }

    protected override void VisitTextPart (TextPart entity)
    {
        TextConverter converter;

        if (body != null) {
            // since we've already found the body, treat this as an attachment
            attachments.Add (entity);
            return;
        }

        if (entity.IsHtml) {
            converter = new HtmlToHtml {
                HtmlTagCallback = HtmlTagCallback
            };
        } else if (entity.IsFlowed) {
            var flowed = new FlowedToHtml ();
            string delsp;

            if (entity.ContentType.Parameters.TryGetValue ("delsp", out delsp))
                flowed.DeleteSpace = delsp.Equals ("yes", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

            converter = flowed;
        } else {
            converter = new TextToHtml ();
        }

        body = converter.Convert (entity.Text);
    }

    protected override void VisitTnefPart (TnefPart entity)
    {
        // extract any attachments in the MS-TNEF part
        attachments.AddRange (entity.ExtractAttachments ());
    }

    protected override void VisitMessagePart (MessagePart entity)
    {
        // treat message/rfc822 parts as attachments
        attachments.Add (entity);
    }

    protected override void VisitMimePart (MimePart entity)
    {
        // realistically, if we've gotten this far, then we can treat this as an attachment
        // even if the IsAttachment property is false.
        attachments.Add (entity);
    }
}
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