RE: [Springframework-developer] common super-interface in mail functionality

[Juergen H. <ju...@in...>]

Thanks for the suggestion, David. Such a common interface for mail messages
is a good idea.

However, the setters in the interface shouldn't throw
javax.mail.MessagingException, which is a checked JavaMail exception.
Consequently, I've redesigned the setters to throw MailParseException, and
implemented a MimeMailMessage adapter that translates the calls into
MimeMessageHelper calls (properly converting exceptions).

Message population code can now interact with either a SimpleMailMessage or
a MimeMailMessage through the common MailMessage interface.

Juergen


-----Original Message-----
From: spr...@li...
[mailto:spr...@li...]On Behalf
Of David Bowers
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:12 PM
To: spr...@li...
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] common super-interface in mail
functionality


Thanks for the response.

I think the best way to explain is to just send the interface I have
in mind, so it is attached.  This would be implemented by
SimpleMailMessage and MimeMessageHelper.  Both classes already have
all these methods, so no further change would be needed.

I have an application that sends e-mail, sometimes plain text, and
sometimes html.  I set up the template subject, sender, and text of
the e-mail as a non-singleton spring bean, and then add my more
specific recipient list in code.  I would like to be able to access
the SimpleMailMessage and the MimeMessageHelper through a common
interface, especially for a method like setTo(String).  I guess I
could send both html and text through the MimeMessageHelper, but it
seemed like a common interface wouldn't hurt anything.

/David Bowers


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:02:13 +0100, Alef Arendsen <al...@jt...> wrote:
> What do you intend to do?
>
> The MimeMessageHelper already supports setting text/plain and text/html
> parts through the setText(String plainText, String htmlText) method and
> setText(String text, boolean html) methods.
>
> Regards,
> Alef
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: spr...@li...
> > [mailto:spr...@li...]
> >  On Behalf Of David Bowers
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:30 PM
> > To: spr...@li...
> > Subject: [Springframework-developer] common super-interface
> > in mail functionality
> >
> > I'm using the mail components to write a small framework
> > (apology for the way overused word) that can send either text
> > or html e-mails.  To simplify this, it would be nice if there
> > were a common super-interface for
> > org.springframework.mail.SimpleMailMessage and
> > org.springframework.mail.javamail.MimeMessageHelper.  They
> > both share getters and setters for properties like cc, to,
> > from, text, etc.  It would be nice to be able to have common
> > initialization code regardless of whether I'm working with a
> > text or html message.
> >
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