Oracle / Java Issue

Question

Hello Everyone,
My problem is that my oracle database I am pulling my data from has bullets inside of the fields. Now, a bullet is part of the extended ascii character set, ie takes 2 bytes. So, I tried to fix the issue with the following code:
Where DB_Results is a result set object.
try {
InputStream myInput = DB_Results.getUnicodeStream( i );
InputStreamReader myReader = new InputStreamReader( myInput, "UTF-8" );
char []argh = new char[myInput.available()];
myReader.read( argh, 0, myInput.available() );
File myFile = new File("/html/https-orgunit/test/matt/testing" + i );
OutputStreamWriter myOutput = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream( myFile ), "UTF-8");
myOutput.write( argh, 0, argh.length );
myOutput.flush();
myOutput.close();
catch(IOException e) {}
My problem is, I keep getting a 0 byte file, can anyone shed some light on this?
I realize that getUnicodeStream is deprecated, but I think it should still work for my purposes.
Thanks,
-Matt

Answer 1

Couple of blind suggestions to try (no promises though):
1. Try using getBinaryStream() and let Java convert the results.
2. Do all this using a PreparedStatement for the query.
Seems to me I had this (empty stream) problem using a regular Statement query. When I switched to a PreparedStatement, it miraculously worked. I never have figured out why.