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    Displaying BLOB Stored Image in OAF

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    This document discusses different approaches for displaying an image stored in a database as a BLOB on an Oracle Application Framework (OAF) page. It describes: 1) Using a Java class to retrieve the BLOB image data from the database and write it to the response output stream. 2) Calling this Java class from a JSP page using scriptlets and passing the image ID. 3) Referencing the JSP page in an <img> tag to display the image on a web page. 4) Suggests this same approach could be used to display the image on an OAF page by setting the imageSource of an imageBean component.

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    This document discusses different approaches for displaying an image stored in a database as a BLOB on an Oracle Application Framework (OAF) page. It describes: 1) Using a Java class to retrieve the BLOB image data from the database and write it to the response output stream. 2) Calling this Java class from a JSP page using scriptlets and passing the image ID. 3) Referencing the JSP page in an <img> tag to display the image on a web page. 4) Suggests this same approach could be used to display the image on an OAF page by setting the imageSource of an imageBean component.

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    This document discusses different approaches for displaying an image stored in a database as a BLOB on an Oracle Application Framework (OAF) page. It describes: 1) Using a Java class to retrieve the BLOB image data from the database and write it to the response output stream. 2) Calling this Java class from a JSP page using scriptlets and passing the image ID. 3) Referencing the JSP page in an <img> tag to display the image on a web page. 4) Suggests this same approach could be used to display the image on an OAF page by setting the imageSource of an imageBean component.

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    Displaying an Image stored in the Database as BLOB on OAF Page



    1. Image Bean can display any image if the file is a physical operating system file.
    2. If the image is stored as a BLOB in database table, we need write java methods to display
    image.
    3. Following article clearly explains about writing : servlet, jsp file to display a image in
    jsp file http://fdegrelle.over-blog.com/article-992927.html
    4. A simple way to display database blob stored image in a jsp
    5. One of my recent assignments was to build a web page that needed to show images that are
    stored in a database.
    6. Having a strong PLSQL coding background the solution seemed to be close to my fingertips
    and I created a PLSQL function that I called through the PLSQL Gateway.
    7.
    CREATE TABLE PHOTOS
    (
    IMAGEID NUMBER(10),
    IMAGE BLOB
    )
    /
    CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Display_Image(p_id NUMBER) IS
    Photo BLOB
    v_amt NUMBER DEFAULT 4096;
    v_off NUMBER DEFAULT 1;
    v_raw RAW(4096);
    BEGIN
    -- Get the blob image
    SELECT image
    INTO Photo
    FROM PHOTOS
    WHERE IMAGEID = p_id;
    owa_util.mime_header('images/gif');
    BEGIN
    LOOP
    -- Read the BLOB
    dbms_lob.READ(Photo, v_amt, v_off, v_raw);
    -- Display image
    htp.prn(utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(v_raw));
    v_off := v_off + v_amt;
    v_amt := 4096;
    END LOOP;
    dbms_lob.CLOSE(Photo);
    EXCEPTION
    WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
    NULL;
    END;
    END;
    /
    9.
    The web page could be called with the following URL and did what I was asked to do
    img src="http://machine:port/pls/myapp/display_image?p_id=12" width="115" border="0"
    10.
    11. This works like a charm but has a caveat that I discovered when presenting it to the network
    department. The network department didnt like the idea of exposing the database server to the
    Internet, which indeed is considerably unsafe.
    12. Back to the whiteboard, I thought of using Web Service. This approach just didnt feel right and
    appeared to be too complex for this little solution to build. Eventually I decided to write a
    JavaServer Page to do the job.
    13.
    The Java class to stream the image from the database column
    package image;
    import java.sql.*;
    import java.io.*;
    import java.util.*;
    import oracle.jdbc.*;
    import oracle.sql.*;
    public class images
    {
    /*-------------------------
    * Get the Blob image
    *------------------------*/
    public static byte[] getPhoto (OracleConnection conn, int iNumPhoto)
    throws Exception, SQLException
    {
    String req = "" ;
    Blob img ;
    byte[] imgData = null ;
    Statement stmt = conn.createStatement ();

    // Query
    req = "Select image From IMAGES Where ImageID = " + iNumPhoto ;

    ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery ( req );

    while (rset.next ())
    {
    img = rset.getBlob(1);
    imgData = img.getBytes(1,(int)img.length());
    }

    rset.close();
    stmt.close();

    return imgData ;
    }

    }
    14. The JavaServer Page includes the bean so its methods can be accessed in the JSP page using
    scriplets and photo as a named bean reference
    15.
    <%@ page import = "image.*" %>
    <%@ page import = "java.io.*" %>
    <%@ page import = "oracle.jdbc.OracleConnection" %>
    <jsp:useBean id="photo" class="image.images" scope="session" />
    <%

    int iNumPhoto ;
    oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection conn = null;

    if ( request.getParameter("imgID") != null )
    {

    iNumPhoto = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("imgID")) ;

    try
    {
    conn = ;
    conn.setAutoCommit (false);

    // get the image from the database
    byte[] imgData = photo.getPhoto( conn, iNumPhoto ) ;
    // display the image
    response.setContentType("image/gif");
    OutputStream o = response.getOutputStream();
    o.write(imgData);
    o.flush();
    o.close();
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
    e.printStackTrace();
    throw e;
    }
    finally
    {
    Close the connexion ;
    }
    }
    %>
    16. To display the image on the web, I now use the following image URL
    img src="image.jsp?imgID=12" width="115" border="0"
    17.
    18. Special thank you to Frank Nimphius for its good suggestions on the style ;o)
    19. Francois
    20.
    To display image in OAF you can make use of following code.

    imageBean1.setImageSource("/OA_HTML/image.jsp?imgID=164");

    4. Other alternative approach for showing the image in OAF page.

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