JDBC for Oracle - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v3.13, by Herong Yang
Retrieving BLOB Values with getBlob() Method
This section describes how to retrieve BLOB values with the ResultSet.getBlob() method.
If you like to work with java.sql.Blob objects, you can retrieve BLOB values with the getBlob() method on ResultSet objects. The Blob object offers some interesting methods:
Here is my test program on getBlob() method:
/* OracleBlobGetBlob.java * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved. */ import java.io.*; import java.sql.*; public class OracleBlobGetBlob { public static void main(String [] args) { Connection con = null; try { oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource ds = new oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource(); ds.setDriverType("thin"); ds.setServerName("localhost"); ds.setPortNumber(1521); ds.setDatabaseName("XE"); ds.setUser("Herong"); ds.setPassword("TopSecret"); con = ds.getConnection(); // Retrieving BLOB value with getBlob() Statement sta = con.createStatement(); ResultSet res = sta.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM Image"); int i = 0; while (res.next() && i<3) { i++; System.out.println("Record ID: "+res.getInt("ID")); System.out.println(" Subject = "+res.getString("Subject")); Blob bodyOut = res.getBlob("Body"); int length = (int) bodyOut.length(); System.out.println(" Body Size = "+length); byte[] body = bodyOut.getBytes(1, length); String bodyHex = bytesToHex(body, 32); System.out.println(" Body in HEX = "+bodyHex+"..."); // bodyOut.free(); // new in JDBC 4.0 } res.close(); sta.close(); con.close(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public static String bytesToHex(byte[] bytes, int max) { StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); for (int i=0; i<bytes.length && i<max; i++) { buffer.append(Integer.toHexString(bytes[i] & 0xFF)); } return buffer.toString().toUpperCase(); } }
The output confirms that the getBlob() method and Blob objects are not hard to use:
herong> java -cp .;ojdbc11.jar OracleBlobGetBlob Record ID: 1 Subject = Test on INSERT statement Body Size = 15 Body in HEX = C9CBBBCCCEB9C8CABCCCCEB9C9CBBB... Record ID: 2 Subject = Test of the setBytes() method Body Size = 15 Body in HEX = C9CBBBCCCEB9C8CABCCCCEB9C9CBBB... Record ID: 3 Subject = Test of setBinaryStream() methods Body Size = 2527 Body in HEX = CAFEBABE000340ABA0370447045A020448046A020478...
Table of Contents
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Introduction
Oracle Express Edition Installation on Windows
Oracle - Reference Implementation of JdbcRowSet
Oracle - JBDC CallableStatement
Oracle CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT
►Oracle BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB
Overview of BLOB (Binary Large Object)
Create Tables with CLOB Columns
Inserting BLOB Values with SQL INSERT Statements
Inserting BLOB Values with setBytes() Method
Inserting BLOB Values with setBinaryStream() Method
Closing InputStream Too Early on setBinaryStream()
Retrieving BLOB Values with getBytes() Method
Retrieving BLOB Values with getBinaryStream() Method
►Retrieving BLOB Values with getBlob() Method
Inserting BLOB Values with setBlob() Method
Copying BLOB Values to New Rows