How can I retrieve a mysql text blob in Catalyst?

miguelele has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I have one XML list stored as a Blob in MySql and I need to retrieve it as the original text. My actual DBI Model/Schema gets all text columns fine, but not the blob.

Maybe I can add some native mysql commands to the query to do the conversion, but I do not know where in the model o result set I can do such thing.

In case you wonder why I have this situation: my first real Catalyst project is porting a working Flex site. Not too complicated. But in Flex I access database through a simple custom .php interface, and I get the Blob column as text without any special treatment.

I can't change the blob to text because customers are using it. Maybe in a second version.

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Re: How can I retrieve a mysql text blob in Catalyst? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 26, 2011 at 18:47 UTC
Catalyst proper has nothing to do with the database. This sounds like a DBIx::Class problem from some of your vocabulary. There is nothing particularly special about text stored in blobs in MySQL, I think the only practical difference is there is no associated character set; there shouldn't be any problem getting it. It sounds like your schema -- Result(Source) class for the table -- is improperly defined or you're doing something like `->search({},{columns => [qw/ everything but the blob /]})`. Without seeing code, those are just guesses: either the My::Schema::Result::TableName is incomplete or the call is excluding the column somewhere along the way. If you show some code, it would be easier to help. Sidenote: You could inflate the blob content to an XML object of some sort to make it easier to handle and get to the data/text. That's incredibly handy but a little expensive depending on your use case.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How can I retrieve a mysql text blob in Catalyst? by miguelele (Beadle) on Oct 26, 2011 at 19:39 UTC
I trusted your word more than mine, so I revised everything from scratch, and I found ALL my lost xml text in the source view of the web page. The first line is `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>` and it messed up things. Now I can start the "real thing": how to parse the XML more or less as I did in Flex. I think I will come back soon. Thank you!	[reply] [d/l]