[Zope-DB] Displaying BLOB's with Zope

[Matthew T. Kromer]

I removed the cross-post; this is going to Zope-db only.



Mark Evans wrote:

><dtml-var standard_html_header>
>Method 1: Display image in-line, retrieved by External Method<BR>
><img src=&dtml-blobtest;>
></p>
><dtml-var standard_html_footer>
>  
>

This doesn't work because your blobtest method doesn't set the content 
type.  Generally you want your LOB image objects to look something like

<dtml-call RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type','image/jpeg')
 ><dtml-var expr="sqlMethodToGetLob().lobcolumn.read()">

What you were trying to do is say  <img src="blobdata...."> which wont 
work, src= needs to be a URL.

>Created a python script called 'retrieveImage':
>
>    photo = context.getImage()
>    container.REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type', 'image/jpeg')
>    return  photo[0].image
>
>which calls the ZSQL method 'getImage':
>
>    select image from blobtest
>    where id='1'
>
>When I click on the 'test' tab for the python script, I get the following
>message:
>The image "http://foo.com/blobtest2/retrieveImage" cannot be displayed, because
>it contains errors.
>
>What am I missing here?  Thanks in advance for the help.
>  
>
Offhand, that looks right to me, so I dont know what it is unhappy 
about.  Perhaps you need to specify context.REQUEST vs 
container.REQUEST, although I dont really think it should matter, both 
should be able to acquire REQUEST.  Perhaps when you return 
photo[0].image you really need to return photo[0].image.read().

N.B.

I'm fairly sure (but I dont exactly recall) that I put an implicit read 
into DCOracle2's LOB objects when they get shuffled out to Zope, which 
removes the need to explicitly call read() on them -- the act of trying 
to str() the lob object should cause it to get read.