Working with Large Objects (BLOB And CLOB)
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Sometimes as the part of programming requirement,we have to insert and retrieve
large files like images,video files,
audio files,resume etc wrt database.
Eg:upload image in matrinomial web sites
upload resume in job related web sites
To store and retrieve large information we should go for Large Objects(LOBs).
There are 2 types of Large Objects.
1. Binary Large Object (BLOB)
2. Character Large Object (CLOB)
1) Binary Large Object (BLOB)
A BLOB is a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in the
database.
BLOB type objects can be images,video files,audio files etc..
BLOB datatype can store maximum of "4GB" binary data.
2) CLOB (Character Large Objects):
A CLOB is a collection of Character data stored as a single entity in the
database.
CLOB can be used to store large text documents(may plain text or xml documents)
CLOB Type can store maximum of 4GB data.
Eg: resume.txt
Steps to insert BLOB type into database:
1. create a table in the database which can accept BLOB type data.
create table persons(name varchar2(10),image BLOB);
2. Represent image file in the form of Java File object.
File f = new File("sachin.jpg");
3. Create FileInputStream to read binary data represented by image file
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f)
4. Create PreparedStatement with insert query.
PreparedStatement pst = con.prepareStatement("insert into persons
values(?,?)");
5. Set values to positional parameters.
pst.setString(1,"sachin");
To set values to BLOB datatype, we can use the following method: setBinaryStream()
public void setBinaryStream(int index,InputStream is)
public void setBinaryStream(int index,InputStream is,int length)
public void setBinaryStream(int index,InputStream is,long length)
6. execute sql query
pst.executeUpdate();
Steps to Retrieve BLOB type from Database
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1. Prepare ResultSet object with BLOB type
ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("select * from persons");
2. Read Normal data from ResultSet
String name=rs.getString(1);
3. Get InputStream to read binary data from ResultSet
InputStream is = rs.getBinaryStream(2);
4. Prepare target resource to hold BLOB data by using FileOutputStream
FileOutputStream fos = new FOS("katrina_new.jpg");
5. Read Binary Data from InputStream and write that Binary data to output Stream.
int i=is.read();
while(i!=-1)
{
fos.write(i);
is.read();
}
or
byte[] b= new byte[2048];
while(is.read(b) > 0){
fos.write(b);
}
