Getting CLOB fron Database then creating a CSV File

Question

Hi,
I am trying to read a CLOB for the DB in my Backing Bean with the help of EJB.
The code in my backing bean is:
char[] strReportContent = reportObj.getReportText();The API where the accessors for getReportText() is;
  @Lob
  @Column(name="REPORT_TEXT")
  public char[] getReportText()
    return reportText;
  public void setReportText(char[] reportText)
    this.reportText = reportText;
  }The problem is that when I do a system out on strReportContent I get a garbage value and not what is in the DB.
Please Help.
Then to render it on the CSV the code is:
  // Init servlet response.
      response.reset();
      response.setContentType("plain/text");
      // response.setContentLength(input.available());
      response.setHeader("Content-disposition",
                         "inline; filename=\"" + selectedReportId.getReportName() + "\"");
      output =
          new BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream(), DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);
char[] strReportContent = reportObj.getReportText();
output.write(strReportContent.toString().getBytes(), 0, strReportContent.length);

Answer 1

Hi,
I am not removing any zeroes . I created the same file in .txt format and XI was able to write the value 008.2010 to the txt file.
I suppose this has somehting to do with excel file properties . By default when we add 008.2010 in the excel sheet , it takes only 8.201. We need to change the format to "text" manually in the excel file to take in zeroes as well.
So , i really dont know how to make sure that the excel file properties does not truncate zeroes while XI is creating the CSV file.
Regards
Vinay P.