FieldBody Class

Class that represents a header field body.

For a list of all members of this type, see FieldBody Members.

System.Object
   Node
      FieldBody

Remarks

FieldBody represents a header field body in an RFC 2822 message or MIME body part. It is a base class that defines the interface common to all structured and unstructured field bodies.

In the document tree representation of a message, a FieldBody object may be either a leaf node, having a parent node but no child nodes, or an intermediate node, having both a parent node and one or more child nodes. The parent node is the Field object that contains it. The child nodes, if present, depend on the particular subclass of FieldBody. An AddressList object, for example, has Address objects as its child nodes. (See the documentation for Node for a discussion of the tree representation of a message.)

Many header fields, such as the Date header field, have structured field bodies. For those header fields, the structured field body is represented by a subclass of FieldBody. Other header fields, such as the Content-Description header field, have unstructured field bodies. For those headers fields, the unstructured field body is represented by the FieldBody class itself.

To get or set the (unfolded) text of the field body, get or set the String property inherited from Node. Alternatively, to get or set the folded text, get or set the Text convenience property.

Some MIME parsers are broken in that they do not handle the folding of some fields properly. FieldBody folds its string representation by default. You may set the FoldingEnabled property to enable or disable folding. To determine if folding is enabled, check the value of the FoldingEnabled property.

Requirements

Namespace: Hunny.Mime

Assembly: Hunny.Mime (in Hunny.Mime.dll)

See Also

FieldBody Members | Hunny.Mime Namespace