BLOB as parameter in execute
illuusio opened this issue · comments
If one wants to add binary BLOB (large or small) that contains UTF-8 chars then in MariaDB it bigger than original as it's inserted as UTF-8 form.
It could be encoded to correct string (base64) or as in PR #178 decoded back to Perl UTF-8 form. But which is correct way to do it?
It makes no sense (though it is permissible) to encode binary data to UTF-8. You will want to bind any binary parameter manually as described here: https://metacpan.org/dist/DBD-MariaDB/view/lib/DBD/MariaDB.pod#Binary-parameters, and when retrieved from the database it will return the binary data directly.
Unfortunately there is no interface to do so without a separate call to bind_param.
Yes I thought this was RTFM problem. I'll correct my code to follow documentation