SYNOPSIS

#include <opendbx/api.h>

int odbx_lo_open (odbx_result_t* result, odbx_lo_t** lo, const char* value);

DESCRIPTION

Some database management systems store large amount of data in separate regions of the database and the content is only referenced by identifiers in the tables. The data types used for this are called Binary Large OBject (BLOB) and Character Large OBject (CLOB) and can be found in e.g. the Firebird and Oracle database servers. The OpenDBX library provides a large object interface to access, read and write their content via the "odbx_lo_*()" functions. To find out if large amount of data can be accessed directly or if the large object interface have to be used, odbx_capabilities() provides the answer when feed with the ODBX_CAP_LO

The result parameter has to be the result object created and returned by odbx_result(). It becomes invalid after it was supplied to odbx_result_finish() and this function will return an error in that case. The second parameter, the pointer to a odbx_lo_t*, will contain the newly created large object handle if odbx_lo_open() succeeds. The lo handle is necessary for all other functions of the large object interface so they are able to perform their operations on the referenced content. The last parameter must be the return value of odbx_field_value() but you have to check for NULL values before feeding the value to odbx_lo_open(). Otherwise, an error is returned.

RETURN VALUE

odbx_lo_open() returns ODBX_ERR_SUCCESS, or an error code whose value is less than zero if one of the operations couldn't be completed successfully. Possible error codes are listed in the error section and they can be feed to odbx_error() and odbx_error_type() to get further details.