Re: please confirm something (jdbc)

From:
steve <steve@aol.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:33:00 +0800
Message-ID:
<fini7c01btm@news4.newsguy.com>
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:28:30 +0800, stc wrote
(in article <fin3t2$d5q$1@ss408.t-com.hr>):

"Thomas Kellerer" <YQDHXVLMUBXG@spammotel.com> wrote in message
news:5r8a9eF13k6ibU1@mid.individual.net...

available() cannot be used to retrieve the number of bytes for an
InputStream.

It does not claim to return the length of the underlying stream. Actually
I doubt that it even knows the size of the "source".

You should create your tmp buffer with a fixed size (e.g. new byte[1024]),
then it should work. I'm not sure I understand what you mean with "read()
blocks" but that could well be caused by your buffer of length zero.


That's probably it. I used available() because it gave me what I needed when
called on ByteArrayInputStream so I didn't bother to check the javadocs.
I'll try with a fixed-size buffer tomorrow and see what happens but there's
no reason not to work :-)

Regarding the getBytes(), I can confirm that it works with PostgreSQL 8.1.4
(with 8.1.407 JDBC3 driver).

Thanks for the help...


1.don't try to read the whole blob into memory, process it as a buffered
stream.

I.E

            while (rset.next()) {
                blob = (oracle.sql.BLOB) rset.getObject(1);
                thebuffer = new BufferedInputStream(blob.getBinaryStream());
            }

or write it to a temp file.

2. store the size of the blob , in an extra field in the record, it's way
faster to recover

            newmessageClob.setString(1, message);
            st.setString(1, "");
            st.setString(2, "");
            st.setString(3, theuser);
            st.setString(4, sendto);
            st.setString(5, subject);
            st.setString(6, "Packingfile.zip");
            st.setLong(7, newmessageClob.length());
            st.setClob(8, newmessageClob);
            st.setBlob(9, newfileBlob);
            st.setLong(10, newfileBlob.length());
            st.setInt(11, 1);
            st.executeUpdate();

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