Personalized Attachments - Examples
Note
The Personalized Attachment feature must first be activated by customer support.
Personalized Attachments enable you to send individual attachments to particular recipients in Optimizely Campaign. Before sending, these attachments must be transmitted to Optimizely Campaign using the HTTP-API. The uploaded attachments can be used when sending transactional mails.
Usage and functionality
Using Personalized Attachments you can, for example, easily and automatically send invoices and orders to your recipients. You can transmit these files (PDF, text file or another file format) to Optimizely Campaign using the uploadpersonalizedattachments operation. When calling this operation, it is possible to upload one or more attachments using an HTTP request. Therefore, the content of the POST requests consists of a multi-part message of the content type multipart/form-data. A correct header of the request can be structured as follows:
connection: Keep-Alive
content-length: 1332
content-type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=rTEJvW_pp2jgbYyxtf7sa8eXTJ1qUE8eizBIT
host: api.campaign.episerver.net
user-agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.2 (java 1.5)
Additionally, the attribute boundary is defined here. It is used to separate the content of the individual files in the post request from each other.
The content of the POST request to upload two files looks as follows (abstract):
--<Boundary>
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="bmFile"; filename="Your_Order.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
<Text content>
--<Boundary>
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="bmFile"; filename="Your_Order.pdf"
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
<Content of the PDF file>
--<Boundary>--
The attribute filename defines the file name of the attachment. This file name is used when sending the mailing. This way, you can transmit recipient-related file names, such as Invoice_John_Smith.pdf. If the attachment was successfully uploaded, a token is returned:
ok: a16dbd294d700428a5704aca679d9a887489cca1098cc1bd7de54bd523a475eb8437813
To use the uploaded attachments in transactional mails, you have to transmit the above mentioned token when calling the sendtransactionmail operation. Such a call might look like this:
https://api.campaign.episerver.net/http/form/<authorisation code>/
sendtransactionmail?bmRecipientId=<Email Address>&bmMailingId=<Mailing ID of the special mailing>
&bmPersonalizedAttachmentsToken=<Returned token>
In this example, the recipient receives the content of the mailing and the attachments referenced by the token.
Further examples
Below are examples of using the personalized attachment. The <auth_code> placeholder used in these examples must be replaced with the actual authorization code.
Java
In the following example, the file Your_Order.pdf is uploaded and sent to the recipient with the email address "[email protected]". This example uses some Apache HHTTP components. You can get the required libraries from http://hc.apache.org.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
final String token = uploadPersonalizedAttachments();
sendTransactionMail(token);
}
private static String uploadPersonalizedAttachments() throws Exception
{
final MultipartEntity uploadMultipartEntity = new MultipartEntity();
uploadMultipartEntity.addPart("bmFile", new FileBody(new File("Your_Order.pdf")));
final HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("https://api.campaign.episerver.net/http/form/<auth_code>/uploadpersonalizedattachments");
httpPost.setEntity(uploadMultipartEntity);
final HttpClient uploadHttpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
final HttpResponse uploadResponse = uploadHttpClient.execute(httpPost);
final HttpEntity uploadResponseEntity = uploadResponse.getEntity();
final ByteArrayOutputStream uploadByteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
uploadResponseEntity.writeTo(uploadByteArrayOutputStream);
final String answer = uploadByteArrayOutputStream.toString("UTF-8");
if(uploadResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200 || !answer.startsWith("ok: "))
{
throw new RuntimeException(answer);
}
return answer.replace("ok: ", "");
}
private static void sendTransactionMail(String token) throws Exception
{
final MultipartEntity sendMultipartEntity = new MultipartEntity();
sendMultipartEntity.addPart("bmRecipientId", new StringBody("[email protected]"));
sendMultipartEntity.addPart("bmMailingId", new StringBody("123456"));
sendMultipartEntity.addPart("bmPersonalizedAttachmentsToken", new StringBody(token));
final HttpPost sendHttpPost = new HttpPost("https://api.campaign.episerver.net/http/form/<auth_code>/sendtransactionmail");
sendHttpPost.setEntity(sendMultipartEntity);
final HttpClient sendHttpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
final HttpResponse sendResponse = sendHttpClient.execute(sendHttpPost);
final HttpEntity sendResponseEntity = sendResponse.getEntity();
final ByteArrayOutputStream sendByteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
sendResponseEntity.writeTo(sendByteArrayOutputStream);
System.out.println(sendByteArrayOutputStream.toString("UTF-8"));
}
CURL
The following shell script upload_attachment_and_send_to_recipient.sh uploads an attachment using CURL and sends it in a transaction email:
#! /bin/sh
URL="https://api.campaign.episerver.net/http/form/<auth_code>"
MAILING="123456"
FILE="${1}"
RECIPIENT="${2}"
if [ -z "${FILE}" ] || [ -z "${RECIPIENT}" ]; then
echo "Some argument is missing. Please use following syntax: '$0 <file> <recipient>'"
exit 1
fi
echo "Executing request to upload attachment ..."
uploadAnswer=$(curl -k -F bmFile=@${FILE} "${URL}/uploadpersonalizedattachments")
if echo "${uploadAnswer}" | grep "ok: ";
then
token=$(echo "${uploadAnswer}" | grep "ok: " | sed 's/ok: //')
echo "Executing request to send transaction mail with token '${token}' ..."
echo $(curl -k "${URL}/sendtransactionmail?
bmRecipientId=${RECIPIENT}&bmMailingId=${MAILING}
&bmPersonalizedAttachmentsToken=${token}")
else
echo ${uploadAnswer}
exit 1
fi
To invoke the above mentioned file, the following command must be invoked:
sh upload_attachment_and_send_to_recipient.sh "Your_Order.pdf" "[email protected]"
PHP (Version 5.3.5)
In the following example, the file Your_Order.pdf is uploaded and sent to the recipient with the email address "[email protected]".
<?php
$file = "Your_Order.pdf";
$authTag = '<auth_code>';
$recipientId = '[email protected]';
$mailingId = '123456';
$boundary = '---------------------' . substr(md5(rand(0, 32000)), 0, 10);
$pathinfo = pathinfo($file);
$data = '--' . $boundary . "\r\n" .
'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="bmFile"; filename="' . $pathinfo['basename'] . '"' . "\r\n" .
'Content-Type: application/binary' . "\r\n" .
'Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary' . "\r\n\r\n" .
file_get_contents($file) . "\r\n" .
'--' . $boundary . '--' . "\r\n";
$uploadUrl = 'https://api.campaign.episerver.net/http/form/' . $authTag . '/uploadpersonalizedattachments';
$context = stream_context_create(
array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=' . $boundary,
'content' => $data
)
));
if (!($uploadHandle = fopen($uploadUrl, 'rb', false, $context)))
{
throw new Exception('Problem with ' . $uploadUrl);
}
$response = stream_get_contents($uploadHandle);
fclose($uploadHandle);
$token = str_replace('ok: ', '', $response);
if ($response === $token)
{
throw new Exception($response);
}
$sendUrl = 'https://api.campaign.episerver.net/http/form/' . $authTag .
'/sendtransactionmail' .
'?bmRecipientId=' . urlencode(utf8_decode($recipientId)) .
'&bmMailingId=' . urlencode(utf8_decode($mailingId)) .
'&bmPersonalizedAttachmentsToken=' . urlencode(utf8_decode($token));
$result = file_get_contents($sendUrl);
echo $result;
?>
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