Closing InputStream Too Early on setBinaryStream()

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∟SQL Server BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

∟Closing InputStream Too Early on setBinaryStream()

This section describes an error condition where executeUpdate() gives an exception if the InputStream is closed too early.

The program in the previous tutorial worked nicely. But if you make a mistake by placing the bodyIn.close() statement before ps.executeUpdate(), you will get an IOException when ps.executeUpdate() is called. The reason is simple, reading of binary data from the InputStream is done at the time of executeUpdate() call. Here is a test program:

/* SqlServerBlobSetBinaryStreamError.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class SqlServerBlobSetBinaryStreamError {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {
      com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource ds
        = new com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource();
      ds.setServerName("localhost");
//      ds.setPortNumber(60782);
      ds.setInstanceName("SQLEXPRESS");
      ds.setDatabaseName("AdventureWorks2019");
      ds.setUser("Herong");
      ds.setPassword("T0pSecret");
      con = ds.getConnection();

// Deleting the record for re-testing
      String subject = "Test of setBinaryStream() method error";
      Statement sta = con.createStatement();
      sta.executeUpdate("DELETE FROM Image WHERE Subject = '"
        +subject+"'");

// Inserting CLOB value with PreparedStatement.setBinaryStream()
      PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement(
        "INSERT INTO Image (Subject, Body) VALUES (?,?)");
      ps.setString(1, subject);
      InputStream bodyIn =
        new FileInputStream("SqlServerBlobSetBinaryStream.class");
      File fileIn = new File("SqlServerBlobSetBinaryStream.class");
      ps.setBinaryStream(2, bodyIn, (int) fileIn.length());

// Error - Closing the InputStream too early.
      bodyIn.close();

      int count = ps.executeUpdate();
      ps.close();

// Retrieving BLOB value with getBytes()
      sta = con.createStatement();
      ResultSet res = sta.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM Image"
        +" WHERE Subject = '"+subject+"'");
      res.next();
      System.out.println("The inserted record: ");
      System.out.println("   Subject = "+res.getString("Subject"));
      System.out.println("   Body = "
        +new String(res.getBytes("Body"),0,32));
      res.close();

      sta.close();
      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

The IOException with newer JDK. The message tells me that the Reader is closed.

herong> java -cp .;mssql-jdbc-9.4.1.jre16.jar \
  SqlServerBlobSetBinaryStreamError

com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException:
An error occurred while reading the value from the stream object.
Error: "java.io.IOException: Stream Closed"
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSWriter.error(IOBuffer.java:3576)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSWriter.writeStream(IOBuffer.ja...
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSWriter.writeRPCInputStream(IOB...
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.DTV$SendByRPCOp.execute(dtv.java:...
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.DTV.executeOp(dtv.java:1460)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.DTV.sendByRPC(dtv.java:1503)
  ...

However, with JDK 1.6, the error message doesn't tell me that the Reader is closed.

herong> Progra~1\java\jdk1.6.0_02\bin\java \
   -cp .;sqljdbc.jar SqlServerBlobSetBinaryStreamError

Exception: java.io.IOException: Read error
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException:
  java.io.IOException: Read error
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException
    .makeFromDriverError(...)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.IOBuffer
    .bufferAppendRPCInputStream(...)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.DTV$SendByRPCOp.execute(...)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.DTV.executeOp(Unknown Source)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.DTV.sendByRPC(Unknown Source)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.Parameter.sendByRPC(...)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement
   .sendParamsByRPC(...)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement
    .doPrepExec(...)
  at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement
    .executeUpdate(...)
  at SqlServerBlobSetBinaryStreamError.main(SqlServerBlob...java:40)