Running a C# script

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See also:
Email Parser scripting SDK
Overview of scripting in Email Parser Example – Basic use of a script in an action

Email Parser provides actions for the most common tasks (SQL, Excel, Command line, Web API …) but if you need to perform something different you can use C# to create your own action.

A script action is the implementation of the Run() method as it is shown below. This method takes the following parameters:

• System.Net.Mail.MailMessage: This is the standard .NET email object containing the incoming email being processed.
• System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection: The list of fields that Email Parser has for the email being processed. This includes the standard email fields (From, To, Subject…) and also any other fields created by the Parsers or previous Actions. You can also add fields (name-value pairs in C#) to this list from the script and they will be available for the next Actions.

For instance, we can check the database server availability with the following script and store the result in a field. Then we can use the contitional run action to trigger the database action.

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using EmailParserBackend.ScriptingInterface;
 
public class MyAction : ScriptBasedAction
{
	public override bool Run(MailMessage email, NameValueCollection fields)
	{
        // Check if the database server is online
        string database_server_ip_address = "192.168.0.45";
        Ping pingSender = new Ping();
        PingReply reply = pingSender.Send(database_server_ip_address);
        if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
            fields.Add("is_online_db_server", "yes");
        else
            fields.Add("is_online_db_server", "no");
 
        return (true);
	}
}