Thank you very much. Actually, the conversion was the piece I was missing. That should solve the problem beautifully. Margaret -----Original Message----- From: Christopher K. St. John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reading the data stored in a database BLOB with a java servlet Margaret Fisk wrote: > > Does anyone know how to read the contents a database blob is > pointing to using java? > This is basically a pure-JDBC question, and thus off-topic and inappropriate, but the gratuitous 'with a java servlet' in the subject line was amusing... There's a tutorial on using Blobs included with the JDK docs in the JDBC section (not the javadocs, an actual step-by-step tutorial). You probably got it when you installed the jdk, but if not, you can get to it from java.sun.com. You do understand that you can't just print a byte array and expect to get anything except gibberish? If you want chars, you have to convert the bytes to chars, and the translation depends on the encoding of the original bytes. (Same goes for converting the chars to bytes when you write them to the blob in the first place) Check the java documentation in the "Internationalization" (I18N) section. If none of this sounds familiar, then expect to spend some hours reading up on mime character encodings and the 'enc' param of java.io.InputStreamReader, OutputStreamWriter. -- Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] DistribuTopia http://www.distributopia.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
