Couchbase Lite 2.0 - Multiple blobs

Mobile Couchbase Lite
1

Hi,

Is it possible to include multiple blobs? We want to save a document with several images.

We’re using Xamarin and CBL 2.0.

Best regards,
Marcus

2

Yes, you can include multiple blobs in the document. For example,

document.set(blob1, “image1”)
document.set(blob2, “image2”)
document.set(blob3, “image3”)

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Correction on the typo in Pasin’s response … Its SetBlob…
It would be

 var data1 = new MutableDocument()
                .SetBlob("blob1",new Blob("image/jpeg",byteArr1))
               .SetBlob("blob2", new Blob("image/png", byteArr2)
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Oh, I didn’t realize you could add more than one… Thank you, both, for clarifying this!

5

Hi,
how would you than add undefined number of blobs (in some case 1, in other 3 or 10) for same type of document? Also how would you select them back from database?

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Not sure I understand your question. You will set the Blob the same way you set any other property in a document

  • get the Mutable copy of the document
  • Set the Blob and chain together the setBlob as many times as you need. So if it’s 1, do it once and if it’s 3 do it thrice.

You will use getBlob to select the blob by specified key

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For adding I’m doing this now
for (index, element) in attachments.enumerated(){
if let imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(element, 1) {
let blob = Blob(contentType: “image/jpeg”, data: imageData)
doc.setBlob(blob, forKey: “att(index)”)
}
}
When I’m doing select, I cannot select blob by key, since I don’t know how many are they.

And just to clarify I’m working in iOS…

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The simplest option for you is to include a separate property that tracks number of blobs in the document and use that to construct the key name associated with the blob that you want to fetch.

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What is the problem you’re trying to solve? There are query functions for iterating over collections, for example.

10

Hi,
I have an array of objects with one of the property array of UIImage that I’m trying to save and then later on select. Saving I solved as I said before.
When I’m doing select, I’m already iterating over rows and I get all other properties. Issue that I’m having is only with multiple blobs.
Can you point me to an example of how to iterate over multiple blobs?

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You have not explained why my proposed workaround doesn’t work for you ? If you track the number of blobs in each document as a property within your document, why can’t you use that to derive the key (which in your case was"att(index)" to fetch the blob

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Why not just use the query API to get the IDs of the documents you need, then get the Document objects and retrieve the blobs from there?