Updating JLabel via SetIcon from bytea data type in postgres

Question

I am retrieving gif images from Wolfram|Alpha. In an effort to minimize queries I want to store those images and only query W|A when the data is changed, so I am storing th

Answer 1

I don't have a installation of PostgreSQL available, but I think you should be writing/reading the image format and not the BufferedImage data.

For example, writing might look something like...

Connection con = ...;
BufferedImage img = ...;
try (PreparedStatement stmt = con.prepareStatement("insert into tableofimages (image) values (?)")) {
    try (ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
        ImageIO.write(img, "png", baos);
        try (ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray())) {
            stmt.setBinaryStream(1, bais);
            int rows = stmt.executeUpdate();
            System.out.println(rows + " rows updated");
        }
    }
} catch (SQLException | IOException exp) {
    exp.printStackTrace();
}

And reading might look something like...

Connection con = ...;
try (PreparedStatement stmt = con.prepareStatement("select image from tableofimages")) {
    try (ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery()) {
        while (rs.next()) {
            try (InputStream is = rs.getBinaryStream(1)) {
                BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(is);
            }
        }
    }
} catch (SQLException | IOException exp) {
    exp.printStackTrace();
}