Re: Zipping multiple BLOBs

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:08:40 -0500
Message-ID:
<hm0ui9$6af$1@news.albasani.net>
cdef wrote:

After doing some tweaking and a lot of face-palming, I have reworked
my EXACT code and ended up with EXACTLY this:

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE res_blob_zip AS TABLE OF BLOB
/

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE RES_FILE_NAME_NT AS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(2000)
/

CREATE OR REPLACE AND RESOLVE JAVA SOURCE NAMED "ZIPImpl" AS
import java.io.*;
import java.util.zip.*;
import java.sql.Blob;
import oracle.sql.ARRAY;

public class ZIPImpl
{
    public static void zipBlob(oracle.sql.ARRAY blobList,
oracle.sql.ARRAY nameList, java.sql.Blob[] outBlob) throws Exception
    {
        Blob[] blobs = (Blob[]) blobList.getArray();
        String[] names = (String[]) nameList.getArray();

        int blobCount = blobs.length;
        int nameCount = names.length;

        Blob zipLob = outBlob[0];


Apparently 'outBlob[0]' is 'null'.

When you create a reference (non-primitive) array of a certain length, say
'n', all n entries are 'null' unless set to a different value explicitly.

        OutputStream os = zipLob.setBinaryStream(0);
        zipLob = null;
        ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(os);
        int chunkSize = 32768;

        //Now from this source Blob file, we need to get a stream and
then write that stream into Zipped Output
        for (int i = 0; i<= (blobCount - 1); i++)
        {
            Blob src = blobs[i];

            //Create a zip entry for the filename
            ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(names[i]);
            zos.putNextEntry(entry);

            long len = src.length();
            long offset = 1;
            byte[] buffer;

            while (offset < len)
            {
                buffer = src.getBytes(offset, chunkSize);

                if (buffer == null)
                    break;

                zos.write(buffer,0,buffer.length);
                offset += buffer.length;
            }

            zos.closeEntry();
        }

        zos.close();
        outBlob[0] = zipLob;
    }
}
/

ALTER JAVA CLASS "ZIPImpl" RESOLVE
/

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE res_zip
IS
    PROCEDURE zipBlob(blob_list IN res_blob_zip,
                      name_list IN res_file_name_nt,
                      blob_zip OUT BLOB);

END res_zip;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY res_zip
IS
    PROCEDURE zipBlob(blob_list IN res_blob_zip,
                      name_list IN res_file_name_nt,
                      blob_zip OUT BLOB)
                      AS LANGUAGE JAVA
                      NAME
'ZIPImpl.zipBlob(oracle.sql.ARRAY,oracle.sql.ARRAY,java.sql.Blob[])';
END res_zip;
/

I have reworked my PL/SQL code to call the procedure zipBlob exactly
ONE time after filling the blob and filename tables to pass in as
arrays
res_zip.zipBlob(blob_list,name_list,blob_zip);

My issue now is that I am receiving the following error caused by the
declaration of "OutputStream os = zipLob.setBinaryStream(0);" in the
Java code:
Java call terminated by uncaught Java exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException


 From the error message one can see that 'zipLob' is 'null'. If you
dereference a 'null' pointer (a.k.a. reference) you get that exception.

I have tried "OutputStream os = zipLob.setBinaryStream(1);" as well as


You still have to set 'zipLob' to a non-'null' value first.

declaring zipBlob [sic] as "Blob zipLob = blobs[0];", and "Blob zipLob =
null;" but I still receive the error.


Sure, because both those assignments must be (and the second one explicitly
is) assigning 'null' to 'zipLob'. In order to dereference a pointer
successfully it must be non-'null'.

--
Lew

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