How to store file in postgres database using hibernate?

Question

I am new to Hibernate. I need to store file in postgres, data type of the column is bytea. I looked around on internet for a working demo of this case, however I couldn't find any.

Hibernate mapping :

<property name="fileData" type="binary">
   <column name="fileData" not-null="true" />
</property>

POJO :

    private byte[] fileData;
        public byte[] getFileData() {
            return fileData;
        }
        public void setFileData(byte[] fileData) {
            this.fileData = fileData;
        }

table :

    create table nmonData(id int, buildNumber int, path text, fileName text, fileData bytea);

Error :

org.hibernate.tool.schema.spi.SchemaManagementException: Schema-validation: wrong column type encountered in column [fileData] in table [nmondata]; found [bytea (Types#BINARY)], but expecting [binary(255) (Types#VARBINARY)]
    at org.hibernate.tool.schema.internal.SchemaValidatorImpl.validateColumnType(SchemaValidatorImpl.java:105)
    at org.hibernate.tool.schema.internal.SchemaValidatorImpl.validateTable(SchemaValidatorImpl.java:92)
    at org.hibernate.tool.schema.internal.SchemaValidatorImpl.doValidation(SchemaValidatorImpl.java:50)
    at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaValidator.validate(SchemaValidator.java:91)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:473)
    at org.hibernate.boot.internal.SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.build(SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.java:444)
    at com.psl.perf.hibernate.util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:34)
    at com.psl.perf.DAO.NmonReportFileDaoImpl.save(NmonReportFileDaoImpl.java:15)
    at com.psl.perf.service.DataService.saveNmonCSV(DataService.java:249)
    at com.psl.perf.main.Main2.main(Main2.java:8)
Jan 22, 2016 12:26:18 PM org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl stop
INFO: HHH10001008: Cleaning up connection pool [jdbc:postgresql://x.x.x.x:5432/perf]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.psl.perf.DAO.NmonReportFileDaoImpl.save(NmonReportFileDaoImpl.java:17)
    at com.psl.perf.service.DataService.saveNmonCSV(DataService.java:249)
    at com.psl.perf.main.Main2.main(Main2.java:8)

can someone share working demo or link for it?

This worked for me commenting <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">validate</property> in hibernate config file did the trick for me, however I'm confuse now about what should be the data type of column and member variable in java for storing file.

Answer 1

I assume you need to store file contents into PG bytea column.

PostgreSQL DDL

CREATE TABLE data_object
(
  obj_id bigserial NOT NULL,
  obj_name character(30),
  obj_file bytea,
  CONSTRAINT data_object_pkey PRIMARY KEY (obj_id)
)

Java Object

@Entity
@Table (name = "data_object")
public class DataObject {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue (strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name = "obj_id")
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "obj_name")
    private String name;

    @Column(name = "obj_file")
    private byte[] file;

    // getters, setters, hasCode, equals, toString

Driver Code

byte[] data = new byte[FILE_SIZE];
// read file contents into data
DataObject obj = new DataObject();
obj.setFile(data);
// save obj using your hibernate session

I am using Hibernate 4.3.7 and PG 9.4.1