How Read Email With Tables Java Code?

Question

I am trying to read email body from outlook with following java code. How do I read properly if the email contains table? Code used is

  // Methods to get Email message content.
  private String getTextFromMessage(Message message) throws Exception {
    String result = "";
    if (message.isMimeType("text/plain")) {
      result = message.getContent().toString();
    } else if (message.isMimeType("multipart/*")) {
      MimeMultipart mimeMultipart = (MimeMultipart)message.getContent();
      result = getTextFromMimeMultipart(mimeMultipart);
    }
    result = removeHyperTextContent(result);
    return result;
  }

  private String getTextFromMimeMultipart(MimeMultipart mimeMultipart) throws Exception
  {
    String result = "";
    int count = mimeMultipart.getCount();
    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
      BodyPart bodyPart = mimeMultipart.getBodyPart(i);
      if (bodyPart.isMimeType("text/plain")) {
        result = result + "\n" + bodyPart. getContent();
        break; }
      if (bodyPart.isMimeType("text/html")) {
        String html = (String)bodyPart.getContent();
        result = result + "\n" + html;
      } else if ((bodyPart.getContent() instanceof MimeMultipart)) {
        result = result + getTextFromMimeMultipart((MimeMultipart)bodyPart.getContent());
        break; //This is added to break after recursive call, otherwise it fetches the content from next MultiPart.
      }
    }
    result = removeHyperTextContent(result);
    return result;
  }

1. Body of original body text 2 . Out put string I got

Answer 1

First, this JavaMail FAQ entry will help you find the main message body in an email message.

In your code, you're preferring the text/plain content over the text/html content. Tables may not be formatted nicely in the text/plain content, but it depends on the mailer being used. The text/html content will have all the information about the table, but you'll need something that parses html to be able to extract the table information in a form you can use.

It's not clear to me what you want to do with the table once you extract it. If you're displaying the result as html in a browser, having the original html table may be exactly what you need.