Re: please confirm something (jdbc)

From:
"stc" <slowtraincoming@softhome.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:35:39 +0100
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"stc" <slowtraincoming@softhome.net> wrote in message
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// read
conn.setAutoCommit(true);
pstmt = conn.prepareStatement("select content from test where id = ? for
update";
pstmt.setString(1, "12345");
ResultSet rs = pstmt.executeQuery();
if (rs.next()) {
InputStream is = rs.getBinaryStream("content");
int n;
byte[] tmp = new byte[is.available()]; // available() returns 0!
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("C:/Temp/12345.pdf");
while ((n = is.read(tmp)) != -1) {
 fos.write(tmp, 0, n);
}
fos.close();
is.close();
}
rs.close();
pstmt.close();
conn.close();

The problem is that "available()" method returns 0 and "read()" method
blocks. What am I doing wrong?


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...

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