_________________________________________________________________ Robert E. Tierney EMail: bob.tierney@goingv.com Going Virtual HTTP: www.goingv.com 10800 Independence Pointe Pkwy Phone: 1-704-849-0731 x109 Matthews, NC 28105 Fax: 1-704-849-2279 AIM: RETierney _________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:15:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob Tierney <btierney@goingv.com> To: Brad Clements <bkc@murkworks.com> Subject: Re: [Zope] Anyone put Images in Interbase 6 and view via Zope? Brad, I think I can provide some information. I have added a jpg to an interbase table and have successfuly displayed it in ZOPE. First off you may know that Interbase does not store BLOB data directly in a table's blob column. It stores the data elsewhere and then stores a "pointer" to it in the table column. This means that BLOB data MUST be inserted via program code and thus you cannot do the following in a Zope SQL Method: insert into the_table (blob_column) values (blob_data) If you are using the gvibDA you can code an external method to do this: import gvib cn = gvib.connect(...) cr = cn.cursor() cr.execute('insert into the_table (blob_column values (?)', (blob_data,)) cn.commit() cr.close() cn.close() What I did to display the JPG may or may not be legal but here is what I did. Code an external method (saveimage) to save the jpg to a temporary file. My codewas: def saveimage(ifile, idata): fout = open(ifile, 'wb') fout.write(idata) fout.close() Then I coded an SQL Method to select the blob column. My example table has one row in it. select picture from sela Then I coded a DTML Method to do the rest: <dtml-in selasql> <dtml-call "saveimage('/tmp/sela.jpg', picture)"> <img src="file:/tmp/sela.jpg" alt='sela'> </dtml/in When 'viewed' the reulst is a nice picture of the lovely Sela Ward. :-) Good Luck and Regards, Bob Tierney _________________________________________________________________ Robert E. Tierney EMail: bob.tierney@goingv.com Going Virtual HTTP: www.goingv.com 10800 Independence Pointe Pkwy Phone: 1-704-849-0731 x109 Matthews, NC 28105 Fax: 1-704-849-2279 AIM: RETierney _________________________________________________________________ On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Brad Clements wrote:

Just wondering if anyone can report success or failure storing .jpgs as blobs in Interbase and viewing same via Zope.

Thanks

Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax netmeeting: ils://ils.murkworks.com AOL-IM: BKClements

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