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Friday 5 October 2007

UpdateableResultSet with BLOB column

When trying to use an UpdateableResultSet with a BLOB column the following error occurs:

Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: Invalid operation for read only resultset: updateBlob
at oracle.jdbc.driver.SQLStateMapping.newSQLException(SQLStateMapping.java:70)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.newSQLException(DatabaseError.java:112)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:173)

The code being used looks something like this:


String querySql2 = "SELECT id, col2 FROM blob_test";

stmt = null;
stmt = conn.createStatement
(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE,
ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
ResultSet rs = null;
rs = stmt.executeQuery(querySql2);
rs.next();
// Fails at this line with exception
rs.updateBlob(2, inputStreamUpdate);

This occurs because updateBlob(int, java.io.InputStream) realizes that the user is binding a stream with unknown length and throws an exception. To get around this you need to use the following two methods which work fine.
  • updateBlob(int, Blob)
  • updateBlob(int,java.io.InputStream, long)

See the following documentation for more information on ResultSet's:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/java.111/b31224/resltset.htm#i1022319

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