jsf - How to convert Part to Blob, so I can store it in MySQL?

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Learn more about Teams <h:panelGrid columns="2"> <h:outputText value="File:"/> <h:inputFile id="file" value="#{uploadPage.uploadedFile}"/> </h:panelGrid> <br/><br/> <h:commandButton value="Upload File" action="#{uploadPage.uploadFile}"/> </h:form>

My bean

@Named
@ViewScoped
public class UploadPage {       
    private Part uploadedFile; 
    public void uploadFile(){
                see the following  link about how to save blob image in database  jsfspotlight.blogspot.com/2013/09/…
– hanan Ahmed
                Oct 2, 2013 at 15:17
The SQL database BLOB type is in Java represented as byte[]. This is in JPA further to be annotated as @Lob. So, your model basically need to look like this:
@Entity
public class SomeEntity {
    private byte[] image;
    // ...
As to dealing with Part, you thus basically need to read its InputStream into a byte[]. You can use InputStream#readAllBytes() for this:
InputStream input = uploadedFile.getInputStream();
byte[] image = input.readAllBytes();
someEntity.setImage(image);
// ...
entityManager.persist(someEntity);
Or if you're not on Java 9 yet, then head to Convert InputStream to byte array in Java for alternative ways to read an InputStream into a byte[].
                I downloaded the library from apache.igor.onlinedirect.bg//commons/io/binaries/…, and loaded the jar file in my project. I imported it like this import org.apache.commons.io.*;, but it tells me that it could not find it.....
– Pavel
                Oct 2, 2013 at 14:48
                Just drop JAR file in /WEB-INF/lib folder. Do not fiddle around in project's properties, for sure not Build Path and likes. If you did it before, make sure that you undo it all. By the way, I edited my answer to show the standard Java API approach.
– BalusC
                Oct 2, 2013 at 14:52
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