ORDDoc - Loading Word Document - Please Help

Question

Hi
I am trying to upload the word document (doc format) to the table i have in oracle database. The table has the column of type OrdDoc.
I am using Intermedia Java API to load the word file from my local system to the database. The upload is happening successfully but when i try to retreive the document i see that its empty and even the properties (mimetype, format) of the document are null.
I would appreciate if anyone of you could please tell me what am i doing wrong and how can i upload the file correctly.
Below is more information about table structure and also the java code.
Table Structure
TableName: DocTable
ColumnName Type
DocId NUMBER
DocName VarChar2(40)
DOCUMENT ORDSYS.ORDDoc
Below are some lines from my code
String insertDocRecord_Qry = "Insert into DocTable (docId,docName,document) values (1,"FirstDoc ",ORDSYS.ORDDoc.init())";
PreparedStatement insertStmt = conn.prepareStatement(insertDocRecord_Qry);
insertStmt.execute();
String selectDocForUpdate_Qry = "select document from DocTable where docId = 1 for update";
OracleResultSet rset = (OracleResultSet)stmt.executeQuery(selectDocForUpdate_Qry);
rset.next();
OrdDoc docProxy = (OrdDoc)rset.getORAData("document", OrdDoc.getORADataFactory());
rset.close();
docProxy.loadDataFromFile("C:/Files/MyFirstDoc.doc");
String updateDoc_Qry = "update DocTable set document=? where docId=1";
opstmt = (OraclePreparedStatement)conn.prepareStatement(updateDoc_Qry);
opstmt.setORAData(1, docProxy);
opstmt.execute();
opstmt.close();
PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT AM I DOING WRONG IN ABOVE CODE.
ABOVE Code doesnt throw an error when executed but when i try to retireve the properties of the document that gets loaded in to the DocTable all i see is null values and 0 content length.
Thanks for your help in advance
-L

Answer 1

Hi Mavris
Thanks for the reply.
In my example the reason i did not invoke setProperties() method is because the setProperties method exposed in OrdDoc class is not same as the setProperties method in OrdAudio or OrdImage.
In OrdDoc class setProperties(byte[][] ctx,boolean setComments) takes two arguments where as setProperties() in OrdAudio and OrdImage does not take any arguments.
byte[ ] ctx[ ] = new byte [4000][1];
When i tried to use setProperties(ctx,true) in OrdDoc i was getting an error.
Can you please tell if this is the correct way to invoke setProperties on OrdDoc in Java Program?
Regarding the list of format that Intermedia Understands, the Appendices A, B and C in Intermedia Refererence talks only about Audio, Image and Video. It doesnt have any details about Document (pdf, txt, doc) files. Can you please tell where can i look for the list of formats that intermedia understands for OrdDoc?
Since the dataType is OrdDoc in my table. How do i check the LOB length?
I tried it using Intermedia Java API by calling getContentLength method after retreiving the OrdDoc column from resultset but it has a value of '0'. So am not sure why the document is not getting loaded.
Please help me resolve this issue.
Thanks