Re: please confirm something (jdbc)
stc, 29.11.2007 15:35:
I managed to read the BLOB successfully using "getBytes()" method from
ResultSet. Then I tried to store BLOB using "setBytes()" and it worked. So
the summary is as following:
- Oracle 9i, 10g JDBC driver, Java 1.5
- writing BLOBs - both "setBinaryStream()" and "setBytes()" work
- reading BLOBs - works only with "getBytes()"
I would really like to have "getBinaryStream()" working so if you could help
I'd appreciate it...
I'm not sure that getBytes() works for other JDBC drivers as well. I
think get/setBinaryStream() was the only reliable (cross-dbms) way that
I found.
What I do, to read the BLOB (I removed the error handling obviously)
InputStream in = rs.getBinaryStream(1);
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int bytesRead = in.read(buff);
while (bytesRead > -1)
{
baos.write(buff, 0, bytesRead);
bytesRead = in.read(buff);
}
in.close();
baos.close();
Now you can e.g. use baos.toByteArray() to access the raw data as a byte
array.
Note that using ByteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray() will create a copy
of its internal buffer so that will double the amount of memory that you
need. That's the reason I wrote my own dynamic byte array (where I can
access the byte array without copying it around)
Thomas
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