Oracle extract from xml truncating value

Question

We have a CLOB column where we\'re storing fairly simple XML, from which I need to extract the property of one of the tags. I believe the select statement is correct, since I g

Answer 1

Are you executing this in sqlplus? Extract returns a XMLType instance, and is displayed according to long variable, which is defaulted to 80. If you increase the value you can see the full URL.

SQL> with x(contact_data) as (
select '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<service_orders count="1">
   <service_order order_number="fakefakefake" id="fakefakefake">
      <images count="2">
       <image src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/some_subfolder/deeper/deeper_still/ever_deeper/really_big_long_url_goes_here"/>
        </images>
</service_order>
</service_orders>' from dual
)
select
    length(extract(xmltype(contact_data),'/service_orders/service_order/images/image/@src')) as url_length,
    extract(xmltype(contact_data),'/service_orders/service_order/images/image/@src') as url
from
    x;  

URL_LENGTH
----------
URL
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       101
https://s3.amazonaws.com/some_subfolder/deeper/deeper_still/ever_deeper/really_b

After increasing the value for long variable,

SQL> set long 120

SQL> with x(contact_data) as (
select '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<service_orders count="1">
   <service_order order_number="fakefakefake" id="fakefakefake">
      <images count="2">
       <image src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/some_subfolder/deeper/deeper_still/ever_deeper/really_big_long_url_goes_here"/>
        </images>
</service_order>
</service_orders>' from dual
)
select
    length(extract(xmltype(contact_data),'/service_orders/service_order/images/image/@src')) as url_length,
    extract(xmltype(contact_data),'/service_orders/service_order/images/image/@src') as url
from
    x;  

URL_LENGTH
----------
URL
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       101
https://s3.amazonaws.com/some_subfolder/deeper/deeper_still/ever_deeper/really_big_long_url_goes_here

You can use the getStringVal function to convert the XMLType to varchar2, which doesn't depend on long variable.

SQL> set long 80

SQL> with x(contact_data) as (
select '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<service_orders count="1">
   <service_order order_number="fakefakefake" id="fakefakefake">
      <images count="2">
       <image src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/some_subfolder/deeper/deeper_still/ever_deeper/really_big_long_url_goes_here"/>
        </images>
</service_order>
</service_orders>' from dual
)
select
    length(extract(xmltype(contact_data),'/service_orders/service_order/images/image/@src')) as url_length,
    extract(xmltype(contact_data),'/service_orders/service_order/images/image/@src').getStringval() as url
from
    x; 

URL_LENGTH
----------
URL
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       101
https://s3.amazonaws.com/some_subfolder/deeper/deeper_still/ever_deeper/really_big_long_url_goes_here