Display clob?

Question

How do I display the content out of a clob?
I just got some strange numbers like this...
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleClobWriter@68693890
oracle.sql.CLOB@74b73890
How do I display the information in my clob and not the binary
output.
The code looks like...
          // Set the clob values
          Clob clob = ((OracleResultSet)rsResult).getClob
(19);
          InputStream is_my_clob = clob.getAsciiStream();
          byte first = (byte)(is_my_clob.read());
          out.println( "FIRST BYTE: " + first + "<BR>");
          Reader char_stream = clob.getCharacterStream();
          char [] char_array = new char [10];
          int chars_read = char_stream.read (char_array,
0, 10);
          //Reader char_stream = clob.getCharacterStream();
          //char [] char_array = new char [10];
          //int chars_read = char_stream.read (char_array,
0, 10);
          java.io.Writer writer;
          // read data into a character array
          char[] data =
{'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9'};
          // write the array of character data to a CLOB
          writer = ((CLOB)clob).getCharacterOutputStream();
          //writer.write(data);
          out.println(writer + "<BR>");
          out.println(clob + "<BR>");
          out.println(chars_read);
          writer.flush();
          writer.close();
Please help me!

Answer 1

Hi ,
What you had been trying is like
CLOB clob = rset.getClob(19);
System.out.println(clob.toString());
To display a CLOB, first read the clob data into a StringBuffer
and then use it.
StringBuffer clobdata = new StringBuffer();
// Open the CLOB in READONLY mode
Reader clobReader = p_Clob.getCharacterStream();
// Get optimal buffer size
char[] charbuffer = new char[p_Clob.getBufferSize()];
// Read from the CLOB and write into the StringBuffer
while((bytesread=clobReader.read(charbuffer))!= -1)
clobdata.append(charbuffer,0,bytesread);
// Close the CLOB and Reader
// Use the CLOB data
clobdata.toString();
Regards
Elango