Error while trying to store PDF in Oracle's BLOB field

Question

Hi folks!
I'm having problems while trying to store PDF file in a BLOB field of an Oracle table
This is the message code:
Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: Data size bigger than max size for this type: 169894
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134)
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:179)
at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTCItem.setArrayData(TTCItem.java:95)
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBDataSetImpl.setBytesBindItem(DBDataSetImpl.java:2414)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.setItem(OraclePreparedStatement.java:1134)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.setBytes(OraclePreparedStatement.java:2170)
at vgoactualizacion.Main.main(Main.java:84)     
This is the piece of code i'm using:
Assuming conn = conection to Oracle 10g Database ( it's working )
String miProcedimientoAlmacenado = "{ call package_name.update_client(?,?, ?) }";
CallableStatement miComando = conn.prepareCall(miProcedimientoAlmacenado);
miComando.setString(1,miClienteID ); //first parameter : IN
               //second parameter : IN
File miPDF = new File(pathPDF + "//" + miClienteID + ".pdf");
byte[] bodyIn = readFully(miPDF); //readFully procedure is shown below
miComando.setBytes(2, bodyIn); //THIS IS THE LINE WHERE THE ERROR IS PRODUCED
          //3rd parameter: OUT
miComando.registerOutParameter(3, java.sql.Types.VARCHAR);
miComando.execute();
private static byte[] readFully(File miPDF) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(miPDF);
byte[] tmp = new byte[1024];
byte[] data = null;
int sz, len = 0;
while ((sz = fis.read(tmp)) != -1) {
if (data == null) {
len = sz;
data = tmp;
} else {
byte[] narr;
int nlen;
nlen = len + sz;
narr = new byte[nlen];
System.arraycopy(data, 0, narr, 0, len);
System.arraycopy(tmp, 0, narr, len, sz);
data = narr;
len = nlen;
if (len != data.length) {
byte[] narr = new byte[len];
System.arraycopy(data, 0, narr, 0, len);
data = narr;
return data;
}//fin readFully
This approach indicates that the PDF file is converted into an array of bytes, then is stored as binary in the BLOB field.
Thanx in advance, and looking forward for your comments.

Answer 1

You will probably need to use the setBinaryStream() method instead of setBytes().