[ Team LiB ]Recipe 9.12 Reading and Writing Binary Data with Oracle Problem You need to read and write binary data from and to an Oracle database.. An Oracle DataAdapter is created and
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Recipe 9.12 Reading and Writing Binary Data with Oracle
Problem
You need to read and write binary data from and to an Oracle database
Solution
Use the techniques shown in the following example
The sample code contains two event handlers:
Read Button.Click
Clears the controls on the form and builds a SQL statement to get the record for the specified ID from the Oracle table TBL0912 A connection is created and a command is built using the SQL statement and executed to build a DataReader The BLOB is retrieved from the DataReader and displayed in the PictureBox on the form The CLOB and NCLOB values are retrieved from the DataReader and displayed in text boxes on the form
Write Button.Click
Gets the ID from the TextBox on the form A BLOB is retrieved from a user-specified file and loaded into a Byte array An Oracle DataAdapter is created and a new table is created using the FillSchema( ) command A CommandBuilder is created from the DataAdapter A new row is created where the BLOB value is set from the file specified by the user and the CLOB, and NCLOB values are set from the text boxes on the form The new row is added to the table and the data updated back to the source
The C# code is shown in Example 9-15
Example 9-15 File: ReadWriteBinaryDataFromOracleForm.cs
// Namespaces, variables, and constants
using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
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using System.Data.OracleClient;
private OpenFileDialog ofd;
private const String TABLENAME = "TBL0912";
private const String ID_FIELD = "ID";
private const String BLOBFIELD_FIELD = "BLOBFIELD";
private const String CLOBFIELD_FIELD = "CLOBFIELD";
private const String NCLOBFIELD_FIELD = "NCLOBFIELD";
//
private void readButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Clear the controls
blobPictureBox.Image = null;
clobTextBox.Clear( );
nclobTextBox.Clear( );
String sqlText = "SELECT * FROM " + TABLENAME + " WHERE ID = " + idTextBox.Text;
// Create the connection and command
OracleConnection conn = new OracleConnection(
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["Oracle_ConnectString"]);
OracleCommand cmd = new OracleCommand(sqlText, conn);
conn.Open( );
// Create the DataReader
OracleDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader( );
// Iterate over the collection of rows in the DataReader
if(dr.Read( ))
{
// Retrieve the BLOB into a stream
Byte[] blob = null;
if(!dr.IsDBNull(1))
blob = (Byte[])dr.GetOracleLob(1).Value;
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(blob);
// Display the BLOB in the PictureBox
blobPictureBox.Image = Image.FromStream(ms);
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// Get the CLOB
if(!dr.IsDBNull(2))
clobTextBox.Text = dr.GetOracleLob(2).Value.ToString( );
// Get the NCLOB
if(!dr.IsDBNull(3))
nclobTextBox.Text = dr.GetOracleLob(3).Value.ToString( ); }
else
{
MessageBox.Show("No record found.", "Access Oracle LOB Data", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
}
dr.Close( );
conn.Close( );
}
private void writeButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
// Get the user-supplied ID
int id;
try
{
id = Convert.ToInt32(idTextBox.Text);
}
catch(System.Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Access Oracle LOB Data",
MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
return;
}
// Save the BLOB, CLOB, and NCLOB
if (ofd.ShowDialog( ) == DialogResult.OK)
{
// Get a BLOB from a user-specified file
FileStream fs = new FileStream(ofd.FileName,
FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read);
Byte[] blob = new Byte[fs.Length];
fs.Read(blob, 0, blob.Length);
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// Create a DataAdapter and table
OracleDataAdapter da = new OracleDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM " + TABLENAME,
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["Oracle_ConnectString"]);
DataTable table = new DataTable( );
// Just get the schema
da.FillSchema(table, SchemaType.Source);
OracleCommandBuilder cb = new OracleCommandBuilder(da);
// Create a row containing the new BLOB, CLOB, and NCLOB data DataRow row = table.NewRow( );
row[ID_FIELD] = id;
row[BLOBFIELD_FIELD] = blob;
if(clobTextBox.TextLength > 0)
row[CLOBFIELD_FIELD] = clobTextBox.Text;
if(nclobTextBox.TextLength > 0)
row[NCLOBFIELD_FIELD] = nclobTextBox.Text;
// Add the row to the table
table.Rows.Add(row);
// Update the Oracle database using the DataAdapter
try
{
da.Update(table);
}
catch(System.Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Access Oracle LOB Data",
MessageBoxButtons.OK,
MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
return;
}
MessageBox.Show("Record successfully created.",
"Access Oracle LOB Data", MessageBoxButtons.OK,
MessageBoxIcon.Information);
}
}
Discussion
Trang 5The GetOracleLob( ) typed accessor method of the OracleDataReader gets the value of the specified column as an OracleLob object representing a Large Object Binary (LOB) data type stored on an Oracle server An Oracle LOB can be one of three types as
described in Table 9-4
Table 9-4 Oracle LOB data type Data
Blob Oracle data type containing binary data with a maximum size of 4 GB This
data type maps to a Byte array
Clob Oracle data type containing character data based on the default character set
of the server with a maximum size of 4 GB This data type maps to a String NClob Oracle data type containing character data based on the national character set
of the server with a maximum size of 4 GB This data type maps to a String
The Oracle NET data provider handles CLOB and NCLOB data as Unicode Each character is therefore two bytes long
See Recipe 9.12 for a general discussion about reading and writing BLOB data from and
to a data source
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