How to get full message body in Gmail?

Question

I want to get full message body. So I try:

Message gmailMessage = service.users().messages().get(\"me\", messageId).setFormat(\"full\").execute();
         


        

Answer 1

If you have the message (com.google.api.services.gmail.model.Message) you could use the following methods:

public String getContent(Message message) {
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    try {
        getPlainTextFromMessageParts(message.getPayload().getParts(), stringBuilder);
        byte[] bodyBytes = Base64.decodeBase64(stringBuilder.toString());
        String text = new String(bodyBytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
        return text;
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        logger.error("UnsupportedEncoding: " + e.toString());
        return message.getSnippet();
    }
}

private void getPlainTextFromMessageParts(List messageParts, StringBuilder stringBuilder) {
    for (MessagePart messagePart : messageParts) {
        if (messagePart.getMimeType().equals("text/plain")) {
            stringBuilder.append(messagePart.getBody().getData());
        }

        if (messagePart.getParts() != null) {
            getPlainTextFromMessageParts(messagePart.getParts(), stringBuilder);
        }
    }
}

It combines all message parts with the mimeType "text/plain" and returns it as one string.