Doctrine 2 - ORM

OCI8 does handle CLOBS differently than all PDO drivers

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Resolved Resolved
  • Priority: Critical Critical
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0-ALPHA3
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0-ALPHA4
  • Component/s: ORM
  • Security Level: All
  • Labels:
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Description

OCI8 returns OCI-LOB objects instead of the clob directly (also for binary large objects) as described by the Underground Manual to PHP and Oracle.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/pdf/underground-php-oracle-manual.pdf

To accompany for this behaviour we need to use the described methods to directly get access to strings:

//   Instead of using locators, LOB data can alternatively be returned as a string:
$arr = oci_fetch_array($s, OCI_ASSOC+OCI_RETURN_LOBS);
echo $arr['BLOBDATA'];

And use temporary LOBs for update/insert:

 emporary LOBs
Temporary LOBs make some operations easier. Inserting data with a Temporary LOB does not use a
RETURNING INTO clause:
Script 70: tempblobinsert.php
<?php
$c = oci_connect('hr', 'hrpwd', 'localhost/XE');
$myblobid = 124;
$myv = 'a very large amount of binary data';
$s = oci_parse($c, 'insert into mybtab (blobid, blobdata)
                            values (:myblobid, :blobdata)');
$lob = oci_new_descriptor($c, OCI_D_LOB);
oci_bind_by_name($s, ':myblobid', $myblobid);
oci_bind_by_name($s, ':blobdata', $lob, -1, OCI_B_BLOB);
$lob->writeTemporary($myv, OCI_TEMP_BLOB);
oci_execute($s, OCI_DEFAULT);
oci_commit($c);
$lob->close();             // close lob descriptor to free resources
?>
Temporary LOBs also simplify updating values:
$s = oci_parse($c, 'update mybtab set blobdata = :bd where blobid = :bid');

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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment -

Added test that fails on Oracle OCI into BasicFunctionalTest TestCase.

I think we should handle CLOBs and BLOBs differently.

a CLOB should be a string by default, however a BLOB on any platform should look like an OCI-LOB instance imho.

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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment - Added test that fails on Oracle OCI into BasicFunctionalTest TestCase. I think we should handle CLOBs and BLOBs differently. a CLOB should be a string by default, however a BLOB on any platform should look like an OCI-LOB instance imho.
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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment -

Hm, the simple addition of the OCI_RETURN_LOBS constant seemed to work. That easy? We'll see!

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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment - Hm, the simple addition of the OCI_RETURN_LOBS constant seemed to work. That easy? We'll see!
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Roman S. Borschel added a comment -

The current solution is fine as a start. Its just that this setting also affects blobs.

This gets problematic whenever a clob/blob is very large, in which case its not really good to load it all at once. We probably need new types for this stuff.

1) a ClobType
2) a BlobType

both being represented by some kind of object that wraps the platform differences.

However, its not easy to propagate to the driver whetner to use OCI_RETURN_LOBS or not.

So I think the current behavior is fine as a start. There is nothing better and simpler that works right now.

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Roman S. Borschel added a comment - The current solution is fine as a start. Its just that this setting also affects blobs. This gets problematic whenever a clob/blob is very large, in which case its not really good to load it all at once. We probably need new types for this stuff. 1) a ClobType 2) a BlobType both being represented by some kind of object that wraps the platform differences. However, its not easy to propagate to the driver whetner to use OCI_RETURN_LOBS or not. So I think the current behavior is fine as a start. There is nothing better and simpler that works right now.
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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment -

PDO handles BLOB vs CLOB differently afaik, i can't tell for sure though. I think for BLOBs pdo returns a file pointer, CLOBs are returned as string.

Now how PDO recognizes the difference for example in the case of oracle is probably not configurable for the enduser.

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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment - PDO handles BLOB vs CLOB differently afaik, i can't tell for sure though. I think for BLOBs pdo returns a file pointer, CLOBs are returned as string. Now how PDO recognizes the difference for example in the case of oracle is probably not configurable for the enduser.

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  • Assignee:
    Roman S. Borschel
    Reporter:
    Benjamin Eberlei
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