Question

From the Spring JDBC documentation, I know how to insert a blob using JdbcTemplate

final File blobIn = new File("spring2004.jpg");
final InputStream blobIs = new FileInputStream(blobIn);
jdbcTemplate.execute(
  "INSERT INTO lob_table (id, a_blob) VALUES (?, ?)",
  new AbstractLobCreatingPreparedStatementCallback(lobhandler) {                         
      protected void setValues(PreparedStatement ps, LobCreator lobCreator) 
          throws SQLException {
        ps.setLong(1, 1L);
        lobCreator.setBlobAsBinaryStream(ps, 2, blobIs, (int)blobIn.length());           
      }
  }
);
blobIs.close();

And also how to retrieve the generated key of a newly inserted row:

KeyHolder keyHolder = new GeneratedKeyHolder();
jdbcTemplate.update(
    new PreparedStatementCreator() {
        public PreparedStatement createPreparedStatement(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
            PreparedStatement ps =
                connection.prepareStatement(INSERT_SQL, new String[] {"id"});
            ps.setString(1, name);
            return ps;
        }
    },
    keyHolder);

// keyHolder.getKey() now contains the generated key

Is there a way I could combine the two?

Answer 1

I came here looking for the same answer, but wasn’t satisfied with what was accepted. So I did a little digging around and came up with this solution that I’ve tested in Oracle 10g and Spring 3.0

public Long save(final byte[] blob) {
  KeyHolder keyHolder = new GeneratedKeyHolder();
  String sql = "insert into blobtest (myblob) values (?)"; //requires auto increment column based on triggers
  getSimpleJdbcTemplate().getJdbcOperations().update(new AbstractLobPreparedStatementCreator(lobHandler, sql, "ID") {
    @Override
    protected void setValues(PreparedStatement ps, LobCreator lobCreator) throws SQLException, DataAccessException {
      lobCreator.setBlobAsBytes(ps, 1, blob);
    }
  }, keyHolder);

  Long newId = keyHolder.getKey().longValue();
  return newId;
}

this also requires the following abstract class, based in part on Spring’s AbstractLobCreatingPreparedStatementCallback

public abstract class AbstractLobPreparedStatementCreator implements PreparedStatementCreator {
  private final LobHandler lobHandler;
  private final String sql;
  private final String keyColumn;
  public AbstractLobPreparedStatementCreator(LobHandler lobHandler, String sql, String keyColumn) {
    this.lobHandler = lobHandler;
    this.sql = sql;
    this.keyColumn = keyColumn;
  }
  public PreparedStatement createPreparedStatement(Connection con) throws SQLException {
    PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement(sql, new String[] { keyColumn });
    LobCreator lobCreator = this.lobHandler.getLobCreator();
    setValues(ps, lobCreator);
    return ps;
  }
  protected abstract void setValues(PreparedStatement ps, LobCreator lobCreator) throws SQLException, DataAccessException;
}

Also, the table you create in Oracle should have an auto-incremented column for the id using a sequence and trigger. The trigger is necessary because otherwise you’d have to use Spring’s NamedParameterJdbcOperations (to do the sequence.nextval in your SQL) which doesn’t seem to have support for KeyHolder (which I use to retrieve the auto-gen id). See this blog post (not my blog) for more info: http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2006/02/17/how-to-create-auto-increment-columns-in-oracle/

create table blobtest (
id number primary key,
myblob blob);

create sequence blobseq start with 1 increment by 1;

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER blob_trigger
BEFORE INSERT
ON blobtest
REFERENCING NEW AS NEW
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT blobseq.nextval INTO :NEW.ID FROM dual;
end;
/