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Passing Binary Data

christian.langers
asked this on December 26, 2009 08:39

Hi again,

Is it possible with SQL Yoga to pass binary data (I have a picture field in the Valentina DB) into the DB ?

If yes, how ?

Thx,

Christian

 

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems

SQL Yoga attempts to work with binary data in a seamless fashion. Assuming you have defined your database column as a binary type then you should be able to insert the binary data as-is without doing anything special.

If you are having trouble then post your code along with info on your db schema and we can troubleshoot.

December 28, 2009 10:53
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christian.langers

I think I discovered the problem :

--> passing binary data to an encrypted Valentina DB is not working (unencrypted Db is ok)

The problem is that I rely on encryption...

The code is really straightforward...

put sqlrecord_createObject("Picts") into theRecordA

answer file ""

put URL("binfile:"&it) into tPicBlob

put the ticks into tId

sqlrecord_set theRecordA,"pic",tBlob

sqlrecord_set theRecordA,"id",tId

sqlrecord_create theRecordA

The DB schema is pretty simple too (as I tried this in a little test stack):

tables

Picts

field order: Pic,id

primary key: id

fields

Pic

meta type: text

name: Pic

signed: false

type: PICTURE

default value: NULL

primary key: false

accepts null: true

limit:

id

meta type: sequence

name: id

signed: false

type: sequence

default value: NULL

primary key: true

accepts null: false

limit:

RecID

meta type: sequence

name: RecID

signed: false

default value:

December 28, 2009 15:30
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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems

If the code works when the db is not encrypted but fails when the db is encrypted then I'm inclined to say that there is a bug in the Valentina database external. Can you send me the test stack so I can run some tests? I can then run it by the Valentina folks.

December 28, 2009 15:33
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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems

The solution to this problem was changing the field type from Picture to Blob in Valentina. Image data was correctly stored and retrieved from Valentina once this was done.

December 29, 2009 09:44