Inbound Email Handler to Save attachments Salesforce

In Continuation to the Post Inbound Email Handler in Salesforce Where we have learned to create an Email service to process the incoming email , This post will be concentrating on handling the attachments in the incoming email.

An InboundEmail object stores binary attachments in an InboundEmail.BinaryAttachment object. 

The following are properties for InboundEmail.BinaryAttachment.

• body
  The body of the attachment.
• fileName
  The name of the attached file.
• headers
  Any header values associated with the attachment. Examples of header names include Content-Type, Content-Transfer-Encoding, and Content-ID.
• mimeTypeSubType
  The primary and sub MIME-type. 

In the Post  Inbound Email Handler in Salesforce We have created a contact using the headers and fromname and fromemail attributes of incoming email. Now I am extending the same example and would save the attachment of the incoming email in the attachments object below the contact .

global class myHandler implements Messaging.InboundEmailHandler {

  global Messaging.InboundEmailResult handleInboundEmail(Messaging.InboundEmail email,
    Messaging.InboundEnvelope envelope) {

    Messaging.InboundEmailResult result = new Messaging.InboundEmailresult();

    Contact con= new contact();
    con.FirstName = email.fromname.substring(0,email.fromname.indexOf(' '));
    con.LastName = email.fromname.substring(email.fromname.indexOf(' '));
    con.Email = envelope.fromAddress;
    insert con;


    if (email.binaryAttachments != null && email.binaryAttachments.size() > 0) {
      for (integer i = 0 ; i < email.binaryAttachments.size() ; i++) {
        Attachment attachment = new Attachment();
        attachment.ParentId = con.Id;
        attachment.Name = email.binaryAttachments[i].filename;
        attachment.Body = email.binaryAttachments[i].body;
        insert attachment;
      }
    }

    return result;

  }


}

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