[Zope-DB] retrieving images from MySQL

[Lila Klektau]

I am attempting to retrieve a jpeg image I placed in a LONGBLOB field of a  
MySQL database.  I have all the correct packages installed in Zope to  
connect to a MySQL database, and the connection is successful - I am able  
to get text information out of the database.  I have followed the  
instructions listed in the MySQL HowTo by murphy  
(http://www.zope.org/Members/murphy/MySQL-BLOBs), to retrieve images, but  
I can't seem to get the image to display.

The image was placed in the database using a perl script.  Attempting to  
retrieve it using PHP is successful, so I assume that the uploading part  
of the process is correct.

To retrieve it in Zope, I am doing the following:

I have a Z SQL Method called get_grid_map which is as follows (note there  
is only one column in this table):

     SELECT time,map FROM status_map

I then have a python script called create_grid_map, to execute the Z SQL  
Method:

     result = context.get_grid_map()
     container.REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type', 'image/JPEG')
     return result[0].map

Trying to view the script results in the following error:

     The image  
“http://yamon.phys.uvic.ca:8080/gridCanada/gridX1/create_grid_map” cannot  
be displayed, because it contains errors.

I have thought maybe an image tag in another file was necessary, but  
placing the image tag <img src="create_grid_map"> in dtml, page_template,  
and plain html documents all result in a broken image.

One thing I notice that is suspicious is that when I view the result of  
testing my SQL statement, the image contents are "array('c','--binary  
image data--'), where --binary image data-- is just a lot of binary  
stuff.  I'm wondering where the array part is coming from, and if that  
could be my problem.  When I tried verifying things in PHP and created a  
file from the database contents, there was no array string prefixed and  
the file displayed correctly.

Any help would be very much appreciated.  Thanks!

-Lila