Question

I am using BLOb support for inserting and reading from MySQl.(JDBC)
I can do that,but when it reads,its only few kb’s.I dont know why.
here is the working code:

 import java.sql.*;
import java.io.*;

public class InsertAndRetrieveImage {

 public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException, FileNotFoundException, IOException {
  int id=7;
String connectionURL = "jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/newdb";;
Connection con=null;
try{
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionURL, "root", "sesame");

 PreparedStatement ps = null;

 ps=con.prepareStatement("INSERT IGNORE INTO image VALUES(?,?,?)");

         File file = new File("e:/anarkali.wav");


         FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream(file);

     try{
        System.out.println(fs.available());
         ps.setInt(1,id);
         ps.setBinaryStream(2,fs,fs.available());
         String filen=file.getName();
      ps.setString(3,filen);


      int i = ps.executeUpdate();



        String filename="filename";OutputStream os=null;byte[] content=null;
        ps= con.prepareStatement("SELECT fs from image where id=7");
        ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
         System.out.println(rs);
      while(rs.next()) {


            Blob blob = rs.getBlob("fs");

        content = blob.getBytes(1, (int) blob.length());


        os = new FileOutputStream(new File("e://testanar.wav"));

    }
    os.write(content);
    os.close();
    con.close();
    ps.close();}
     catch(SQLException e)
     {System.out.println(e.getMessage());
     }

  }catch(Exception ex){}


  }

Is the problem while reading or writing?my BLOb’s size is somewhat 65535.Is this is the bug?

Answer 1

Your program is correct. If the file size is small then it will work fine. If you are using BLOB datatype to store that binary data,change it to LONGBLOB. Because if you tried to save a file in BLOB data field, and if the file size is more than max allowed size of BLOB datatype then the content will be truncated and you will loss some content of file(depends on file size). Even if you use LONGBLOB datatype there are some things you must check. I’ll explain

In mysql website we can see that max file size of LONGBLOB is 4GB. But it depends on many things. To store large file you have to check some things. First thing is in my.ini file, there is a property called max_allowed_packet, it specifies largest possible packet that can be transmitted to or from a mysql client or server. You should set max_allowed_packet property to a higher value. And restart mysql. Some file system won’t allow 4GB files. In that case you cant load that much big file.

I think in your case setting max_allowed_packet property to a higher value will fix the problem.

I think you can use following table creation script

CREATE TABLE `image` (
    `id` INT(10) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
    `fs` LONGBLOB NULL,
    `filen` VARCHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL
)