I use Oracle 11g (on Red Hat). I have simple regular table with XMLType column:
CREATE TABLE PROJECTS
(
PROJECT_ID NUMBER(*, 0) NOT NULL,
PROJECT SYS.XMLTYPE,
);
Using Oracle SQL Developer (on Windows) I do:
select T1.PROJECT P1 from PROJECTS T1 where PROJECT_ID = '161';
It works. I get one cell. I can double click and download whole XML file.
Then I tried to get result as CLOB:
select T1.PROJECT.getClobVal() P1 from PROJECTS T1 where PROJECT_ID = '161';
It works. I get one cell. I can double click and see whole text and copy it. BUT there is a problem. When I copy it to clipboard I get only first 4000 characters. It seems that there is 0x00 character at position 4000 and the rest of CLOB is not copied.
To confirm this, I wrote check in java:
// ... create projectsStatement
Reader reader = projectsStatement.getResultSet().getCharacterStream( "P1" );
BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader( reader );
char buffer[] = new char[ 1024 ];
int count = 0;
int globalPos = 0;
while ( ( count = bf.read( buffer, 0, buffer.length ) ) > 0 )
for ( int i = 0; i < count; i++, globalPos++ )
if ( buffer[ i ] == 0 )
throw new Exception( "ZERO at " + Integer.toString(globalPos) );
Reader returns full XML but my exception is thrown because there is null character at position 4000. I could remove this single byte but this would be rather strange workaround.
I don't use VARCHAR2 there but maybe this problem is related to VARCHAR2 limitation (4000 bytes) somehow ? Any other ideas ? Is this an Oracle bug or am I missing something ?
-------------------- Edit --------------------
Value was inserted using following stored procedure:
create or replace
procedure addProject( projectId number, projectXml clob ) is
sqlstr varchar2(2000);
begin
sqlstr := 'insert into pro