Class Cast Exception

[Robert Young]

I am extracting the content from an email message. I am casting this into a string object. However, when it is a multipart message and it gets to the text/html content I get a class cast exception. Does anyone know what type of object is being returned since it is not a string.

I can't seem to find anything about it.

Below is the method:

private String extractContent(MimeMessage msg) throws MessagingException, IOException {
//extract content
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(1000);
try{

if (msg.getContentType().indexOf("text/plain") != -1) {
//plain text message
sb.append((String) msg.getContent());
} else if (msg.getContentType().indexOf("text/html") != -1) {
sb.append((String) msg.getContent());
} else if (msg.getContentType().indexOf("multipart") != -1) {
Multipart mp = (Multipart) msg.getContent();
for (int i = 0; i < mp.getCount(); i++) {
Part part = mp.getBodyPart(i);
if (part.getContentType().indexOf("text/plain") != -1) {
sb.append((String) part.getContent());
} else if (part.getContentType().indexOf("text/html") != -1) {
sb.append((String) part.getContent());
}
}
}
}catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e){

[Greg T Robertson]

If you really wanna know you can do a

Object o = msg.getContent();
System.out.println(o.class.getName());

or something very similar to that basically you get the class and then it's name and you can tell exactly what you have.

[Peter den Haan]

Usually the detail message of the CCE will tell you. Not always though for some reason.

- Peter