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About the EAI MIME Doc Converter
The MIME Doc Converter converts a MIME Hierarchy into a MIME Message and a MIME Message into a MIME Hierarchy. A MIME Hierarchy consists of two different types of property sets, as shown in Table 46.
Table 46. Property Sets in a MIME Hierarchy
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Document |
Mapping to MIME basic-part |
EAI MIME Doc Converter Properties
Table 47 illustrates some examples of how a MIME Message maps to a MIME Hierarchy.
Table 47. Examples of MIME Message and MIME Hierarchy
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: application/xml Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a test. |
Type: Document Value: This is a test |
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="application/xml"; boundary=--abc ----abc Content-Type: application/xml Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is test2. ----abc-- |
Type: MIMEHierarchy Type: Document Value: This is a test2 |
The business service needs the following properties on the child property set as shown in Table 48. These properties reflect the most accurate information on the data contained in the child property set.
Table 48. Properties for EAI MIME Doc Converter
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ContentId |
Any value |
Document |
No Default. The ContentId is the value used to identify the file attachment when the receiver parses the MIME message. When importing attachments, use a unique value for this property and not repeat it for the rest of the file attachments. This is required in the actual document. This property is automatically populated when you are exporting an attachment from a Siebel application. |
Extension |
txt, java, c, C, cc, CC, h, hxx, bat, rc, ini, cmd, awk, html, sh, ksh, pl, DIC, EXC, LOG, SCP, WT, mk, htm, xml, pdf, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, AU, SND, WAV. gif, jpg, jpeg, tif, XBM, avi, mpeg, ps, EPS, tar, zip, js, doc, nsc, ARC, ARJ, B64, BHX, GZ, HQX |
Document |
No Default. If ContentType and ContentSubType are not defined, then Extension is used to retrieve the appropriate values from this property. If all three values are specified, then ContentType and ContentSubType values override the values retrieved from the Extension. If either the Extension or both ContentType and ContentSubType are not specified, then ContentType will be set to application and ContentSubType will have the value of octet-stream. |
ContentType |
application, audio, image, text, video |
Document |
Default is application. The ContentType value has to be specified if you want to set the content type of the document instead of using the extension to get a value from the MIME utility function. If the value is not provided, then the default value is used. The ContentType of multipart is used to represent file attachments in a MIME message. Other values to describe a multipart message are not supported. |
ContentSubType |
plain, richtext, html, xml (used with ContentType of Text) octet-stream, pdf, postscript, x-tar, zip, x-javascript, msword, x-conference, x-gzip (used with ContentType of application) aiff, basic, wav (used with ContentType of audio) gif, jpeg, tiff, x-xbitmap (used with ContentType of image) avi, mpeg (used with ContentType of video) |
Document |
Default is octet-stream. The ContentSubType value has to be specified if you want to set the content subtype of the document instead of using the extension to get a value from the MIME utility function. If the value is not provided, then the default value is used. NOTE: Octet-stream is transparent and uses nonencoded 8-bit bytes. The MIME message will contain the binary file data as is, which might cause issues in data transmission over networks that remove bit number 8 (the hi-bit) for special needs.
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NOTE: On the inbound direction, the business service is independent of the transport. It assumes that the input property set contains the MIME message, and writes a property set representation of the MIME message. A property set is used to represent each part of the MIME message. When decoding the MIME message, the business service automatically sets the properties based on the values in the MIME message.
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