This tool constructs a simple MIME multipart document from a set of "parts". It accepts as input a standard properties object (file) describing the operations to be performed. The location of the properties file is the only parameter.

tool CreateMultipart <path to properties file>

The properties file must contain the required property out.name, with a value of the path to the multipart document to be constructed.

A group of properties named inX.<propertyname> describes each "part" to be included, where X is replaced with the part number 1 to n. The required property name for each in part has a value of the path containing the data to be included in the part. Any other properties to be copied to the message part are expressed as header properties. For example,

out.name=c:/testarea/testmp.mpart
# part 1 is an XML document as a header
in1.name=c:/testarea/testmp.xml
in1.header.Content-Type=application/xml
#part 2 is the information part one describes
in2.name=c:/testarea/test.txt
in2.header.Content-Type=text/document
in2.header.Content-Id: mydata

The content of the XML part for our example is

<mydoc>
    <request>
        <user>user1</user>
        <password>password1</password>
        <route>COPY</route>
        <input type='attach'/>
    </request>
</mydoc>

Running the tool command tool

CreateMultipart c:/testarea/testmp

produces this file:

message-id: <7754670.1104164220167.JavaMail.rb02237@Beck2000>
content-type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_Part_1_7835377.1104164220042"
content-length: 593
mime-version: 1.0
------=_Part_1_7835377.1104164220042
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=testmp.xml

<mydoc>
    <request>
        <user>user1</user>
        <password>password1</password>
        <route>COPY</route>
        <input type='attach'/>
    </request>
</mydoc>
------=_Part_1_7835377.1104164220042
Content-Type: text/document
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.txt
Content-Id: mydata
 
This is a test of the multipart tool
 
------=_Part_1_7835377.1104164220042--