passing binary data to MySQL BLOB field

[Björnke von Gierke]

Why me, and not one of the hundreds of other list-readers :P

I've never done arrays with binary, but the dictionary entry for revExecuteSQL says:

"To pass binary data in an array element, prepend "*b" to the element's key."

I Assume that means:

put "I am binary!" into myArray["*bSomeKey"]
revexecuteSQL MyDatabaseID, "INSERT INTO Assets ('FileName', 'File') VALUES(:1)", "myArray"

and not:

put "I am binary!" into myArray["SomeKey]
revexecuteSQL MyDatabaseID, "INSERT INTO Assets ('FileName', 'File') VALUES(:1)", "myArray[*bSomeKey]"



On 07.03.2013, at 02:59, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Bjornke,
> How do you specify binary data if you use the an array instead of a list of
> variable names?
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Björnke von Gierke <bvg at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Not sure why it won't work for you, but it seems that your first try had
>> some typo or otherwise wrong code. Your copy/paste has code missing so it's
>> hard to say what the problem is. The second error looks like you forgot
>> some closing brackets or quotation marks, again it's hard to tell due to
>> lack of full code.  One thing to note is that all variables used for
>> substitution have to exist, unlike all other places in LC, where missing
>> variables are assumed to be empty. Here's an example that probably should
>> work, but is untested:
>> 
>> --assuming revopendatabase works as expected
>> put "blah" into fileNameVar
>> put "pretend this is binary" into binaryObjectVar
>> revexecuteSQL MyDatabaseID, "INSERT INTO Assets ('FileName', 'File')
>> VALUES(:1,:2)", "fileNameVar", "*bbinaryObjectVar"
>> 
>> On 05.03.2013, at 02:26, Sieg Lindstrom wrote:
>> 
>>> Can anyone advise what the correct syntax should be to construct a MySQL
>> "INSERT" query that passes variables from LiveCode when one of said
>> variables is a binary object? I am trying to construct the statement and
>> then use it with RevExecuteSQL. I'm particularly trying to understand the
>> LC Dictionary note that reads, "To pass binary data in a variable in the
>> variablesList, prepend "*b" to the variable name. The revExecuteSQL command
>> strips the binary marker "*b" and passes it to the database as binary data,
>> rather than text data.
>>> 
>>> Fair enough. My second variable in the query below, binaryObjectVar, is
>> a binary object. So I try this:
>>> 
>>> INSERT INTO Assets (`FileName`, `File`) VALUES(:1,:2)", "fileNameVar",
>> "*bbinaryObjectVar"
>>> 
>>> The result is this LC error: "compilation error at line 486 (Expression:
>> double binary operator) near "*", char 24"
>>> 
>>> If I try the query without using "*b" MySQL chokes on the binary data in
>> binaryObjectVar and sends the following error message:
>>> 
>>> "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds
>> to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near
>> ':1,:2,:3,:4)", "test_file.pdf", %PDF-1.5%...' at line 1"
>>> 
>>> So I've tried a number of permutations for including "*b". I've tried
>> quotes around the variable name with "*b" prepended within those quotes,
>> "*b" prepended before the open quote, etc. In each case, MySQL still gags
>> on the binary data.
>>> 
>>> Help! While this may sound like a misplaced MySQL syntax question, it's
>> not. What I'm missing is how to properly prepend "*b" so LC sends the
>> variable as binary data. ???
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> 
>>> Sieg Lindstrom
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