Issue the following statements before executing the examples, where c:\mydir\work is the directory where the user ron can find the image data. Before executing these commands, you must be connected as a user with privileges to create a directory object.

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY FILE_DIR as 'c:\mydir\work';
GRANT READ ON DIRECTORY FILE_DIR TO 'ron';

Format

ORDImage(SELF IN OUT NOCOPY ORDSYS.ORDImage,
         data IN BLOB,
         setproperties IN INTEGER DEFAULT 0)
 RETURN SELF AS RESULT

Description

Constructs an ORDImage object from a BLOB. The data stored in the BLOB is copied into the ORDImage object when the constructed ORDImage object is inserted or updated into a table.

Parameters

data

Image content stored in a BLOB.

setproperties

Indicator flag that determines whether the setProperties( ) method is called in the constructor. If the value is 1, the setProperties( ) method is called. If the value is 0, the method is not called. The default is 0.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

None.

Usage Notes

Use this constructor to create an ORDImage object when the image content is stored in either a temporary or a persistent BLOB.

Examples

Create an ORDImage object from a BLOB object and insert it into the table.

INSERT INTO pm.online_media (product_id, product_photo)
  SELECT 3501, ORDSYS.ORDImage(t.img) FROM mediauser.timg t WHERE t.n = 1;

Format

ORDImage(SELF IN OUT NOCOPY ORDSYS.ORDImage,
         source_type      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'LOCAL',
         source_location  IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL,
         source_name      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL,
         setproperties    IN INTEGER DEFAULT 0)
 RETURN SELF AS RESULT

Description

Constructs an ORDImage object from a specific source. By default, an empty object with a local source is constructed.

Parameters

source_type

The type of the source image data. Valid values are: FILE, HTTP, LOCAL, or user-defined. The default is LOCAL.

The parameter value LOCAL indicates that the data is stored in Oracle Database. The parameter value LOCAL is never stored in the srcType attribute. Rather, this parameter value indicates that the data is stored in Oracle Database in the localData attribute. (See Embedded ORDSource Object for a description of the ORDSource object.)

source_location

The location from which the source image data is to be imported. (See Table 7-2.)

source_name

The name of the source image data. (See Table 7-3.)

setproperties

Indicator flag that determines whether the setProperties( ) method is called in the constructor. If the value is 1, the setProperties( ) method is called. If the value is 0, the method is not called. The default is 0.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

None.

Usage Notes

Use this constructor to create an ORDImage object when the image content is not stored in a BLOB, as in any of these situations:

• The content is in a local file.
• The content is referenced by a URL.
• The content is not available when the ORDImage object is created.

Examples

Create an ORDImage object from a specified source:

-- Construct an ORDImage object from an external file and insert it into the table.
INSERT INTO pm.online_media (product_id, product_photo)
  VALUES (3515, ORDSYS.ORDImage('FILE', 'FILE_DIR', 'speaker.jpg'));
 
-- Initialize an ORDImage object in the table.
INSERT INTO pm.online_media (product_id, product_photo)
  VALUES(3501, ORDSYS.ORDImage());

Format

applyWatermark(SELF IN OUT NOCOPY ORDImage,
               added_image          IN OUT NOCOPY ORDImage,
               dest                 IN OUT NOCOPY ORDImage,
               logging              OUT VARCHAR2,
               watermark_properties IN ORDSYS.ORD_STR_LIST default null);

Description

Overlays an image watermark onto a source image and writes it to a destination image object.

Parameters

added_image

The watermark image stored in an ORDImage object to be added to the source image.

dest

The destination ORDImage object for the watermarked image.

logging

A string that contains information about any unexpected behavior that occurred during the watermarking operation. If the operation is successful, an empty string is returned.

watermark_properties

A string list of name-value pairs that define the attributes of the watermark image to be overlaid, including: width, height, position, position_x, position_y, and transparency. See Table D-4 for the complete list of watermark properties.

Usage Notes

You cannot specify the same ORDImage as both the source and destination.

Calling this method processes the image into the destination BLOB from any source (local or external).

See Watermarking Operations for more information about watermarking operations and watermark properties.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL

This exception is raised if you call the applyWatermark( ) method and the value of the destination image source.local attribute is 0 or the destination source.localData attribute is not initialized.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_DESTINATION

This exception is raised if you call the applyWatermark( ) method and the destination image is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA

This exception is raised if you call the applyWatermark( ) method and the value of the destination image source.localData attribute is NULL. This exception is also raised if you call the applyWatermark( ) method and the value of the source image source.local attribute is 1 or NULL, and the value of the source.localData attribute is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised if the source or watermark image source attribute value is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Add a watermark image to a source image:

-- add image as watermark to source image
DECLARE
  source_image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
  added_image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
  dest_image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
  prop ordsys.ord_str_list;
  logging VARCHAR2(2000);
BEGIN
  select product_photo into source_image from pm.online_media
    where product_id = 4001;
  select product_photo into added_image from pm.online_media
    where product_id = 4002;
  select product_photo into dest_image from pm.online_media
    where product_id = 4003 for update;
 
  -- specify properties
  prop := ordsys.ord_str_list(
                   'position=bottomright',
                   'transparency=0.2');
 
  -- add image watermark to source image
  source_image.applyWatermark(added_image, dest_image, logging, prop);
  update pm.online_media set product_photo = dest_image where product_id = 4003;
  commit;
EXCEPTION
  WHEN OTHERS THEN
      RAISE;
END;
/

Format

applyWatermark(SELF IN OUT NOCOPY ORDImage,
               added_text           IN VARCHAR2,
               dest                 IN OUT NOCOPY ORDImage,
               logging              OUT VARCHAR2,
               watermark_properties IN ORDSYS.ORD_STR_LIST default null);

Description

Overlays a text watermark onto a source image and writes it to a destination image object.

Parameters

added_text

The watermark text stored in a string to be added to the source image.

dest

The destination ORDImage object for the watermarked image.

logging

A string that contains information about any unexpected behavior that occurred during the watermarking operation. If the operation is successful, an empty string is returned. Otherwise, this method returns a string that describes the unexpected behavior. For example: if watermark text is so long that it is truncated, this string is returned: WARNING: text is too long and truncated.

watermark_properties

A string list of name-value pairs that define the attributes of the watermark text to be overlaid, including: font_name, font_style, font_size, text_color, position_x, position_y, and transparency. See Table D-4 for the complete list of watermark properties.

Usage Notes

You cannot specify the same ORDImage as both the source and destination.

Calling this method processes the image into the destination BLOB from any source (local or external).

See Watermarking Operations for more information about watermarking operations and watermark properties.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL

This exception is raised if you call the applyWatermark( ) method and the value of the destination image source.local attribute is 0 or the destination source.localData attribute is not initialized.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_DESTINATION

This exception is raised if you call the applyWatermark( ) method and the destination image is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA

This exception is raised if you call the applyWatermark( ) method and the value of the destination image source.localData attribute is NULL. This exception is also raised if you call the applyWatermark( ) method and the value of the source image source.local attribute is 1 or NULL, and the value of the source.localData attribute is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised if the source image source attribute value is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Add watermark text to a source image:

-- add text as watermark to source image
DECLARE
  source_image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
  added_text varchar2(200);
  dest_image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
  prop ordsys.ord_str_list;
  logging VARCHAR2(2000);
BEGIN
  select product_photo into source_image from pm.online_media
    where product_id = 4001;
  select product_photo into dest_image from pm.online_media
    where product_id = 4003 for update;
 
  added_text := 'Oracle Multimedia © 2009';
  -- specify properties
  prop := ordsys.ord_str_list(
                   'font_name=Times New Roman',
                   'font_style=bold',
                   'font_size=50',
                   'text_color=red',
                   'position_x=100',
                   'position_y=100',
                   'transparency=0.6');
 
  -- add text watermark to source image
  source_image.applyWatermark(added_text, dest_image, logging, prop);
  update pm.online_media set product_photo = dest_image where product_id = 4003;
  commit;
EXCEPTION
  WHEN OTHERS THEN
      RAISE;
END;
/

Format

checkProperties( ) RETURN BOOLEAN;

Description

Verifies that the properties stored in attributes of the image object match the properties of the image. Do not use this method for foreign images (those formats not natively supported by Oracle Multimedia).

Parameters

None.

Usage Notes

Use this method to verify that the image attributes match the actual image.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised when the value of the ORDImage.source attribute is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about this exception.

Examples

Check the image attributes:

DECLARE
 image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 properties_match BOOLEAN;
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO image FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 -- check that properties match the image
 properties_match := image.checkProperties();
 IF properties_match THEN
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Check Properties succeeded');
 ELSE
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Check Properties failed');
 END IF;
COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

copy(dest IN OUT ORDImage);

Description

Copies an image without changing it.

Parameters

dest

The destination of the new image.

Usage Notes

This method copies the image data, as is, including all source and image attributes, into the supplied local destination image.

If the data is stored locally in the source, then calling this method copies the BLOB to the destination source.localData attribute.

Calling this method copies the external source information to the external source information of the new image, whether the source data is stored locally or not.

Calling this method implicitly calls the setUpdateTime( ) method on the destination object to update its time stamp information.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised when the value of the ORDImage.source attribute is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about this exception.

Examples

Create a copy of an image:

DECLARE
 image_1 ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 image_2 ORDSYS.ORDImage;
BEGIN
 -- Initialize a new ORDImage object where the copy will be stored:
  INSERT INTO pm.online_media (product_id, product_photo) 
  VALUES (3091, ORDSYS.ORDImage.init());
 -- Select the source object into image_1:
 SELECT product_photo INTO image_1 FROM pm.online_media 
   WHERE product_id = 3515;
 -- Select the target object into image_2:
 SELECT product_photo INTO image_2 FROM pm.online_media 
   WHERE product_id = 3091 FOR UPDATE;
 -- Copy the data from image_1 to image_2:
 image_1.copy(image_2);
 UPDATE pm.online_media SET product_photo = image_2
  WHERE product_id = 3091;
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

getCompressionFormat( ) RETURN VARCHAR2;

Description

Returns the value of the compressionFormat attribute of the image object.

Parameters

None.

Usage Notes

Use this method rather than accessing the compressionFormat attribute directly to protect yourself from potential changes to the internal representation of the ORDImage object.

Pragmas

PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES(getCompressionFormat, WNDS, WNPS, RNDS, RNPS)

Exceptions

None.

Examples

Get the compression type of an image:

DECLARE
 image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 compression_format VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO image FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 -- Get the image compression format:
 compression_format := image.getCompressionFormat();
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Compression format is ' || compression_format);
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

getContentFormat( ) RETURN VARCHAR2;

Description

Returns the value of the contentFormat attribute of the image object.

Parameters

None.

Usage Notes

Use this method rather than accessing the contentFormat attribute directly to protect yourself from potential changes to the internal representation of the ORDImage object.

Pragmas

PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES(getContentFormat, WNDS, WNPS, RNDS, RNPS)

Exceptions

None.

Examples

Get the content type of an image:

DECLARE
 image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 content_format VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO image FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 -- Get the image content format:
 content_format := image.getContentFormat();
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Content format is ' || content_format);
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

getContentLength( ) RETURN INTEGER;

Description

Returns the value of the contentLength attribute of the image object.

Parameters

None.

Usage Notes

Use this method rather than accessing the contentLength attribute directly to protect from potential future changes to the internal representation of the ORDImage object.

Pragmas

PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES(getContentLength, WNDS, WNPS, RNDS, RNPS)

Exceptions

None.

Examples

Get the content length of an image:

DECLARE
 image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 content_length INTEGER;
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO image FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 -- Get the image size:
 content_length := image.getContentLength();
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Content length is ' || content_length);
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

getFileFormat( ) RETURN VARCHAR2;

Description

Returns the value of the fileFormat attribute of the image object.

Parameters

None.

Usage Notes

Use this method rather than accessing the fileFormat attribute directly to protect yourself from potential changes to the internal representation of the ORDImage object.

Pragmas

PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES(getFileFormat, WNDS, WNPS, RNDS, RNPS)

Exceptions

None.

Examples

Get the file type of an image:

DECLARE
 image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 file_format VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO image FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 -- Get the image file format:
 file_format := image.getFileFormat();
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('File format is ' || file_format);
COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

getHeight( ) RETURN INTEGER;

Description

Returns the value of the height attribute of the image object.

Parameters

None.

Usage Notes

Use this method rather than accessing the height attribute directly to protect yourself from potential changes to the internal representation of the ORDImage object.

Pragmas

PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES(getHeight, WNDS, WNPS, RNDS, RNPS)

Exceptions

None.

Examples

Get the height of an image:

DECLARE
 image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 height INTEGER;
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO image FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 -- Get the image height:
 height := image.getHeight();
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Height is ' || height);
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

getMetadata(metadataType IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'ALL') RETURN XMLSequenceType ;

Description

Extracts the specified types of metadata from the image and returns an array of schema-valid XML documents. If no matching metadata is found, an empty array is returned.

Parameters

metadataType

A string that specifies the types of embedded metadata to extract. Valid values are: ALL, ORDIMAGE, XMP, EXIF, and IPTC-IIM. The default value is ALL.

Usage Notes

When the value of the input parameter metadataType is ALL, and two or more types of supported metadata are present in the image, this method returns several XML documents, one for each type of metadata found. For other values of the input parameter, the method returns zero or one XML document.

Each document is stored as an instance of XMLType, and is based on one of the metadata schemas. Use the XQuery function fn:namespace-uri to determine the type of metadata represented in that document.

See Oracle Multimedia Metadata XML Schemas for information about the supported metadata schemas.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA

This exception is raised when source.localData is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised when the value of the ORDImage.source attribute is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Extract the embedded metadata, and return an array of schema-valid XML documents:

DECLARE 
  image ORDSYS.ORDImage; 
  metav XMLSequenceType; 
  ns    varchar2(4000);
BEGIN 
  SELECT product_photo 
  INTO image
  FROM pm.online_media 
  WHERE product_id = 3106;
  
  metav := image.getMetadata('ALL');
  
  -- print the namespace of each metadata document
  FOR i in 1..metav.count LOOP
    select xmlcast(xmlquery('fn:namespace-uri($x)'
          passing metav(i) as "x" returning content) as varchar2(4000))
      into ns from dual;
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('namespace: ' || ns);
  END LOOP;
 
  EXCEPTION 
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA THEN 
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('source local data is null'); 
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE THEN 
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('source is null'); 
  WHEN OTHERS THEN
    RAISE;
END; /

Format

getWidth( ) RETURN INTEGER;

Description

Returns the value of the width attribute of the image object

Parameters

None.

Usage Notes

Use this method rather than accessing the width attribute directly to protect yourself from potential changes to the internal representation of the ORDImage object.

Pragmas

PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES(getWidth, WNDS, WNPS, RNDS, RNPS)

Exceptions

None.

Examples

Get the width of an image:

DECLARE
 image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 width INTEGER;
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO image FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 -- Get the image width:
 width := image.getWidth();
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Width is ' || width);
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

 import(ctx IN OUT RAW);

Description

Transfers image data from an external image data source to the source.localData attribute (of the embedded ORDSource object) within the database.

Parameters

ctx

The source plug-in context information. This parameter must be allocated and initialized to NULL. If you are using a user-defined source plug-in, call the openSource( ) method. (See Important Notes for ORDImage Methods.)

Usage Notes

Use the setSource( ) method to set the source.srcType, source.srcLocation, and source.srcName attributes (of the embedded ORDSource object) for the external source before calling the import( ) method.

After importing data from an external image data source to a local source (within Oracle Database), the source information remains unchanged (that is, pointing to the source from where the data was imported).

Invoking this method implicitly calls the setUpdateTime( ) and setLocal( ) methods.

If the file format of the imported image is not previously set to a string beginning with OTHER, the setProperties( ) method is also called. Set the file format to a string preceded by OTHER for foreign image formats; calling the setProperties( ) method for foreign images does this for you.

If the value of the source.srcType attribute is FILE, the source.srcLocation attribute contains the name of a database directory object that contains the file to be imported, and the source.srcName attribute contains the name of the file to be imported. You must ensure that the directory for the external source location exists or is created before you use this method.

The import( ) method reads only from a database directory object that the user has privilege to access. That is, you can access a directory object that you have created using the SQL statement CREATE DIRECTORY, or one to which you have been granted READ access.

For example, the following SQL*Plus commands create a directory object and grant the user ron permission to read any file within the directory c:\mydir\work. Before executing these commands, you must be connected as a user with privileges to create a directory object.

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY FILE_DIR AS 'c:\mydir\work';
GRANT READ ON DIRECTORY FILE_DIR TO ron;

See ORDImage Object Examples for more information about directory and table definitions.

If the value of the source.srcType attribute is HTTP, the source.srcLocation attribute contains the base URL needed to find the directory that contains the object to be imported, and the source.srcName attribute contains the name of the object to be imported.

This method uses the PL/SQL UTL_HTTP package to import media data from an HTTP data source. You can use environment variables to specify the proxy behavior of the UTL_HTTP package. For example, on Linux and UNIX, setting the environment variable http_proxy to a URL specifies that the UTL_HTTP package must use that URL as the proxy server for HTTP requests. Setting the no_proxy environment variable to a domain name specifies that the HTTP proxy server not be used for URLs in the specified domain.

If the value of the source.srcType attribute is a user-defined name, the source.srcLocation attribute contains an identifier string required to access the user-defined object to be imported, and the source.srcName attribute contains the name of the object to be imported.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised when the value of the ORDImage.source attribute is NULL.

ORDSourceExceptions.INCOMPLETE_SOURCE_INFORMATION

This exception is raised if you call the import( ) method and the value of the source.srcType attribute is NULL.

ORDSourceExceptions.METHOD_NOT_SUPPORTED

This exception is raised if you call the import( ) method and this method is not supported by the source plug-in being used.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Import image data from an external image data source into the local source:

DECLARE
 obj ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 ctx RAW(64) :=NULL;
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO obj FROM pm.online_media p 
  WHERE p.product_id  = 3515 FOR UPDATE;
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('getting source');
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('--------------------------');
 -- Get source information
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(obj.getSource());
 -- Import data
 obj.import(ctx);
 -- Check size
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Length is ' || obj.getContentLength());
 UPDATE pm.online_media p SET p.product_photo = obj WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

importFrom(ctx              IN OUT RAW,
           source_type      IN VARCHAR2,
           source_location  IN VARCHAR2,
           source_name      IN VARCHAR2);

Description

Transfers image data from the specified external image data source to the source.localData attribute (of the embedded ORDSource object) within the database.

Parameters

ctx

The source plug-in context information. This parameter must be allocated and initialized to NULL. If you are using a user-defined source plug-in, call the openSource( ) method. (See Important Notes for ORDImage Methods.)

source_type

The type of the source image data. (See Table 7-1.)

source_location

The location from which the source image data is to be imported. (See Table 7-2.)

source_name

The name of the source image data. (See Table 7-3.)

Usage Notes

This method is similar to the import( ) method except the source information is specified as parameters to the method instead of separately.

After importing data from an external image data source to a local source (within Oracle Database), the source information (that is, pointing to the source from where the data was imported) is set to the input values.

Invoking this method implicitly calls the setUpdateTime( ) and setLocal( ) methods.

If the file format of the imported image is not previously set to a string beginning with OTHER, the setProperties( ) method is also called. Set the file format to a string preceded by OTHER for foreign image formats; calling the setProperties( ) for foreign images method does this for you.

If the value of the source_type parameter is FILE, the source_location parameter contains the name of a database directory object that contains the file to be imported, and the source_name parameter contains the name of the file to be imported. You must ensure that the directory indicated by the source_location parameter exists or is created before you use this method.

The importFrom( ) method reads only from a database directory object that the user has privilege to access. That is, you can access a directory object that you have created using the SQL statement CREATE DIRECTORY, or one to which you have been granted READ access.

For example, the following SQL*Plus commands create a directory object and grant the user ron permission to read any file within the directory c:\mydir\work. Before executing these commands, you must be connected as a user with privileges to create a directory object.

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY FILE_DIR AS 'c:\mydir\work';
GRANT READ ON DIRECTORY FILE_DIR TO ron;

See ORDImage Object Examples for more information about directory and table definitions.

If the value of the source_type parameter is HTTP, the source_location parameter contains the base URL needed to find the directory that contains the object to be imported, and the source_name parameter contains the name of the object to be imported.

This method uses the PL/SQL UTL_HTTP package to import media data from an HTTP data source. You can use environment variables to specify the proxy behavior of the UTL_HTTP package. For example, on Linux and UNIX, setting the environment variable http_proxy to a URL specifies that the UTL_HTTP package must use that URL as the proxy server for HTTP requests. Setting the no_proxy environment variable to a domain name specifies that the HTTP proxy server not be used for URLs in the specified domain.

If the value of the source_type parameter is a user-defined name, the source_location parameter contains an identifier string required to access the user-defined object to be imported, and the source_name parameter contains the name of the object to be imported.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised when the value of the ORDImage.source attribute is NULL.

ORDSourceExceptions.METHOD_NOT_SUPPORTED

This exception is raised if you call the importFrom( ) method and this method is not supported by the source plug-in being used.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Import image data from the specified external data source into the local source:

DECLARE
 obj ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 ctx RAW(64) :=NULL;
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO obj FROM pm.online_media p 
  WHERE p.product_id  = 3501 FOR UPDATE;
 -- set source to a file
 -- import data
 obj.importFrom(ctx,'file','FILE_DIR','speaker.jpg');
 -- check size
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Length is ' || obj.getContentLength());
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Source is ' || obj.getSource());
 UPDATE pm.online_media p SET p.product_photo = obj WHERE p.product_id = 3501;
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

process(command IN VARCHAR2);

Description

Performs one or more image processing operations on a BLOB, writing the image back onto itself.

Parameters

command

A list of image processing operations to perform on the image.

Usage Notes

There is no implicit import( ) or importFrom( ) call performed when you call this method; if data is external, you must first call the import( ) or importFrom( ) method to make the data local before you can process it.

Implicit setProperties( ), setUpdateTime( ), and setMimeType( ) methods are done after the process( ) method is called.

You can change one or more of the image attributes shown in Table 10-1.

^Footnote 1

Enclose floating-point arguments with double quotation marks to ensure correct Globalization Support interpretation.

^Footnote 2

Specifies the percent contrast enhancement to be applied to all bands (GRAY or RGB)

^Footnote 3

Specifies the percent contrast enhancement to be applied to each band (RGB only)

^Footnote 4

Specifies the bounds for contrast enhancement to be applied to each band (RGB only)

^Footnote 5

Specifies separate gamma values to be applied to each band (RGB only)

Table 10-2 shows additional changes that can be made only to raw pixel and foreign images.

^Footnote 6

Specifies that a single band is to be selected from the input image and that band is to be used to create a grayscale output image

^Footnote 7

Specifies that three bands are to be selected from the input image and those bands are to specify the red, green, and blue bands of an RGB output image

See Oracle Multimedia Image Processing for more information about process( ) method operators.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL

This exception is raised if you call the process( ) method and the data is not local (the source.local attribute is 0).

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised when the value of the ORDImage.source attribute is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Example 1:

Change the file format of image1 to GIFF:

DECLARE
 obj ORDSYS.ORDImage;
BEGIN
 SELECT product_photo INTO obj FROM pm.online_media
  WHERE product_id = 3515 FOR UPDATE;
 obj.process('fileFormat=GIFF');
 -- Update 
 UPDATE pm.online_media SET product_photo = obj WHERE product_id = 3515;
 -- Roll back to keep original format of image:
 ROLLBACK;
 EXCEPTION
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL THEN
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Data is not local');
END;
/

Example 2:

Change image1 to use a compression format of JPEG with MAXCOMPRATIO and double the length of the image along the X-axis:

DECLARE
 obj ORDSYS.ORDImage;
BEGIN
 SELECT product_photo INTO obj FROM pm.online_media
  WHERE product_id = 3515 FOR UPDATE;
  obj.process(
       'compressionFormat=JPEG,compressionQuality=MAXCOMPRATIO, xScale="2.0"'); 
 -- Update: 
 UPDATE pm.online_media SET product_photo = obj WHERE product_id = 3515;
 -- Roll back to keep original format of image:
 ROLLBACK;
 EXCEPTION
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL THEN
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Data is not local');
END;
/

Example 3:

Create a thumbnail image:

The maxScale and fixedScale operators are especially useful for creating thumbnail images from various-sized originals. The following example creates, at most, a 32-by-32 pixel thumbnail image, preserving the original aspect ratio.

DECLARE
 obj ORDSYS.ORDImage;
BEGIN
 SELECT product_photo INTO obj FROM pm.online_media
  WHERE product_id = 3515 FOR UPDATE;
 obj.process('maxScale=32 32');
 UPDATE pm.online_media p SET product_thumbnail = obj 
  WHERE product_id = 3515;
 COMMIT;
 EXCEPTION
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL THEN
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Data is not local');
END;
/

Example 4:

Change the format to TIFF and the content format to 8BIT, BIP pixel layout, LUT interpretation, and RGB color space:

DECLARE
 obj ORDSYS.ORDImage;
BEGIN
 SELECT product_photo INTO obj FROM pm.online_media
  WHERE product_id = 3515 FOR UPDATE;
 obj.process('fileFormat=TIFF, contentFormat=8BITBIPLUTRGB');
 UPDATE pm.online_media SET product_photo = obj WHERE product_id = 3515;
 -- Roll back to keep original format of image:
 ROLLBACK;
 EXCEPTION
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL THEN
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Data is not local');
END;
/

Format

processCopy(command IN VARCHAR2,
            dest    IN OUT ORDImage);

Description

Reads the image in the source.LocalData attribute (of the embedded ORDSource object), performs one or more image processing operations on the image, and then stores the resulting image in the destination ORDImage object. The original image content in the source ORDImage object remains unchanged.

Parameters

command

A list of image processing changes to make in the destination image.

dest

The destination of the new image.

Usage Notes

You cannot specify the same ORDImage as both the source and destination.

Calling this method processes the image into the destination BLOB from any source (local or external).

Implicit setProperties( ), setUpdateTime( ), and setMimeType( ) methods are applied on the destination image after the processCopy( ) method is called.

See process( ), specifically Table 10-1 and Table 10-2, for information about image processing operators.

See Oracle Multimedia Image Processing for more information about processCopy( ) method operators.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL

This exception is raised if you call the processCopy( ) method and the value of the destination image source.local attribute is 0 or the destination source.localData attribute is not initialized.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_DESTINATION

This exception is raised if you call the processCopy( ) method and the destination image is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA

This exception is raised if you call the processCopy( ) method and the value of the destination image source.localData attribute is NULL. This exception is also raised if you call the processCopy( ) method and the source image source.local attribute value is 1 or NULL, and the value of the source.localData attribute is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised if the value of the source attribute for the source image is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Generate a thumbnail image from a source image:

DECLARE
 obj_1 ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 obj_2 ORDSYS.ORDImage;
 
BEGIN
 SELECT product_photo, product_thumbnail INTO obj_1, obj_2 
  FROM pm.online_media
  WHERE product_id = 3515 FOR UPDATE;
  obj_1.processCopy('maxScale=32 32', obj_2);
 UPDATE pm.online_media SET product_thumbnail = obj_2 
  WHERE product_id=3515;
 COMMIT;
EXCEPTION
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.NULL_DESTINATION THEN
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('The destination is null');
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL THEN
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Data is not local');
  WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA THEN
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('dest.source.localData attribute is null');
COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

putMetadata(xmlData      IN NOCOPY XMLType,
            metadataType IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'XMP'
            encoding     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'UTF-8');

Description

Accepts a schema-valid XML document and creates a binary packet suitable for embedding in the target image file format. The packet is encoded according to the value of the encoding parameter. If the value of the metadataType parameter is XMP, this method writes a new XMP packet to the image, replacing any existing XMP packets.

Parameters

xmlData

The XMLType that contains a schema-valid XML document for the indicated metadataType. If the value of the metadataType parameter is XMP, the root element should contain a well-formed RDF document.

metadataType

A string that specifies the type of metadata to write. The valid value is XMP; it is also the default.

encoding

The character encoding to be used in the image file. Valid values are: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE. The default is UTF-8.

Usage Notes

The binary metadata packet generated from the same xmlData input may have different sizes for different encodings. Different image file formats support different encodings, and may restrict the binary metadata packet size. The restrictions of the supported image formats are as follows:

• GIF89a supports UTF-8 encoding only.

• JPEG requires a binary packet size of less than 65502 bytes.

• TIFF requires a binary packet size of less than 4 gigabytes.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL

This exception is raised when the data is not local (the source.local attribute is 0.)

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA

This exception is raised when source.localData is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised when the value of the ORDImage.source attribute is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Replace an ORDImage object in the table pm.online_media with a new ORDImage object, with updated XMP metadata:

DECLARE
  image     ORDSYS.ORDImage;
  xmlData   XMLType;
BEGIN
  SELECT product_photo 
  INTO image
  FROM pm.online_media
  WHERE product_id = 3106 FOR UPDATE; 
 
  xmlData := xmltype(
       '<xmpMetadata xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/ord/meta/xmp">' ||
       '<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"' ||
       '  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">' ||
       '<dc:rights>' ||
       '  <rdf:Alt>' ||
       '    <rdf:li xml:lang="en-us">' ||
       '      Oracle Corporation' ||
       '    </rdf:li>' ||
       '  </rdf:Alt>'||
       '</dc:rights>' ||
       '</rdf:RDF>' ||
       '</xmpMetadata>', 'http://xmlns.oracle.com/ord/meta/xmp'); 
 
  image.putMetadata(xmlData, 'xmp', 'utf-8'); 
 
  UPDATE pm.online_media 
  SET product_photo = image 
  WHERE product_id=3106;
  COMMIT;
 
  EXCEPTION
    WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.DATA_NOT_LOCAL THEN
      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Data is not local');
    WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA THEN
      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('source.localData attribute is null');
    WHEN ORDSYS.ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE THEN
      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('source is null');
    WHEN OTHERS THEN
      RAISE;
    END;/

Format

setProperties( );

Description

Reads the image data to get the values of the object attributes, then stores them into the appropriate attribute fields. The image data can be stored in the database the source.localData attribute, or externally in a BFILE or URL. If the data is stored externally in anything other than a BFILE, the data is read into a temporary BLOB in so as to determine the image characteristics.

Do not call this method for foreign images. Use the setProperties( ) for foreign images method instead.

Parameters

None.

Usage Notes

After you have copied, stored, or processed a native format image, call this method to set the current characteristics of the new content, unless this method is called implicitly.

This method sets this information about an image:

• Height in pixels

• Width in pixels

• Data size of the image on disk, in bytes

• File type (TIFF, JFIF, and so on)

• Image type (monochrome and so on)

• Compression type (JPEG, LZW, and so on)

• MIME type (generated based on file format)

Calling this method implicitly calls the setUpdateTime( ) and the setMimeType( ) methods.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_LOCAL_DATA

This exception is raised if you call the setProperties( ) method and the value of the source.local attribute is 1 or NULL and the value of the source.localData attribute is NULL.

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_SOURCE

This exception is raised when the value of the ORDImage.source attribute is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about these exceptions.

Examples

Select the image, and then set the attributes using the setProperties( ) method:

DECLARE
 image ORDSYS.ORDImage;
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO image FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3515 FOR UPDATE;
 -- set property attributes for the image data
 image.setProperties();
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('image width = ' || image.getWidth());
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('image height = ' || image.getHeight());
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('image size = ' || image.getContentLength());
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('image file type = ' || image.getFileFormat());
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('image type = ' || image.getContentFormat());
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('image compression = ' || image.getCompressionFormat());
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('image mime type = ' || image.getMimeType());
 UPDATE pm.online_media p SET p.product_photo = image 
   WHERE p.product_id = 3515;
 COMMIT;
END;
/

Format

setProperties(description IN VARCHAR2);

Description

Lets you write the characteristics of certain foreign images whose format is not natively understood by Oracle Multimedia into the appropriate attribute fields.

Parameters

description

The image characteristics to set for the foreign image.

Usage Notes

See Image Raw Pixel Format for Use With Oracle Multimedia for information about when to use foreign image support. Only some formats that are not natively understood can be described using this setProperties( ) method.

After you have copied, stored, or processed a foreign image, call this method to set the characteristics of the new image content. Unlike the native image types described in Image File and Compression Formats for Use With Oracle Multimedia, foreign images either do not contain information about how to interpret the bits in the file or, Oracle Multimedia does not understand the information. In this case, you must set the information explicitly.

You can set the image characteristics for foreign images as described in Table 10-3.

The values supplied to the setProperties( ) for foreign images method are written to the existing ORDImage data attributes. The fileFormat attribute is set to OTHER and includes the user string, if supplied; for example, OTHER: LANDSAT.

Pragmas

None.

Exceptions

ORDImageExceptions.NULL_PROPERTIES_DESCRIPTION

This exception is raised if you call the setProperties( ) for foreign images method and the value of the description parameter is NULL.

See Exceptions for Oracle Multimedia Objects for more information about this exception.

Examples

Select the foreign image, and then set the properties for the image:

DECLARE
    obj ORDSYS.ORDImage;
BEGIN
 SELECT p.product_photo INTO obj FROM pm.online_media p
  WHERE p.product_id = 3501 FOR UPDATE;
 -- Set property attributes for the image data:
 obj.setProperties('width=123 height=321 compressionFormat=NONE' ||
                     ' userString= LANDSTAT dataOffset=128' || 
                     ' scanlineOrder=INVERSE pixelOrder=REVERSE' ||
                     ' interleaving=BIL numberOfBands=1' ||
                     ' defaultChannelSelection=1');
 UPDATE pm.online_media SET product_photo = obj 
   WHERE product_id=3501;
 COMMIT;
END;
/