VB6 bulk uploading images to Oracle database

Recently I found myself in a situation where I should migrate a lot of existing

images into a Oracle database. The web frontend was in place for uploading image
s and also for streaming images back to the client. However the initial number
of images to upload was very large (10K+ images).
The solution was to create a small program that could do this for me.
The destination data base in question that were to hold the images already defin
ed image categories and subcategories, so the application needed to support this
.
So the first thing we do on form load is to retrieve the categories and subcateg
ories from the data base and display them as combo boxes.
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim cn2 As ADODB.Connection
Dim rst As ADODB.Recordset, rst2 As ADODB.Recordset
Set cn = New ADODB.Connection
cn.Open (strConnection)
Set cn2 = New ADODB.Connection
cn2.Open (strConnection)
Set rst = cn.Execute("SELECT category_group_id, CATEGORY_GROUP_NAME From MED
IA_CATEGORY_GROUP order by category_group_name")
rst.MoveFirst
While Not rst.EOF
Debug.Print rst.Fields("category_group_name").Value
cmbCategories.AddItem rst.Fields("category_group_name").Value
cmbCategories.ItemData(cmbCategories.NewIndex) = "-1"
Set rst2 = cn.Execute("SELECT category_id, CATEGORY From MEDIA_CATEGORY
" & _
"where category_group_id = " & rst.Fields("category_group_id").Value
& " order by category")
rst2.MoveFirst
While Not rst2.EOF
Debug.Print rst2.Fields("category").Value
cmbCategories.AddItem rst2.Fields("category").Value
cmbCategories.ItemData(cmbCategories.NewIndex) = rst2.Fields("catego
ry_id").Value
rst2.MoveNext
Wend
rst.MoveNext
Wend
Set rst = Nothing
Set rst2 = Nothing
Set cn2 = Nothing
End Sub
We have some small helper methods that handle source directory for images to upl

oad, cleaning up on form unload, and a simple prerequisites check that the user
has specified the needed input
Private Sub DirList_Change()
' Update the file list box to synchronize with the directory list box.
filList.Path = dirList.Path
filList.Pattern = Me.txtSearchSpec.Text
End Sub
Private Sub DirList_LostFocus()
dirList.Path = dirList.List(dirList.ListIndex)
End Sub
Private Sub DrvList_Change()
On Error GoTo DriveHandler
dirList.Path = drvList.Drive
Exit Sub
DriveHandler:
drvList.Drive = dirList.Path
Exit Sub
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
Set cn = Nothing
End
End Sub
Private Sub txtSearchSpec_Change()
' Update file list box if user changes pattern.
filList.Pattern = txtSearchSpec.Text
End Sub
Private Sub txtSearchSpec_GotFocus()
txtSearchSpec.SelStart = 0
' Highlight the current entry.
txtSearchSpec.SelLength = Len(txtSearchSpec.Text)
End Sub
Private Sub checkSettings()
' If media category has not been chosen
If Me.cmbCategories.ListIndex = -1 Then
Err.Raise 10000, , "You must select a media category to upload to!"
ElseIf Me.cmbCategories.ListIndex > -1 And Me.cmbCategories.ItemData(Me.cmbC
ategories.ListIndex) = -1 Then
Err.Raise 10003, , "The category you have selected is not a category but
a category group. Please try again but this time only select from the category
listings starting with '--'"
ElseIf Me.txtPath.Text = "" Or Right(Me.txtPath.Text, 1) <> "\" Then
Err.Raise 10001, , "You must specify a path to the directory on the webs
erver " & _
"in which you want to save the media files, the path mu
st end with a '\' (backslash)"
ElseIf Me.filList.ListCount = 0 Then
Err.Raise 10002, , "There was no files with the extensions " & Me.txtSea
rchSpec.Text & " in the chosen directory. No media files where uploaded. "
End If
End Sub
Finally we have the method that is invoked when the user is actually uploading t
he images to the database

Private
Dim
Dim
Dim
Dim
Dim

Sub cmdUpload_Click()
x As Long
rst As ADODB.Recordset, rst2 As ADODB.Recordset
fs As FileSystemObject, f As File
mime As String, orgFilePath As String, orgFile As String
catID As Long, media_id As Long, fileSize As Long

On Error GoTo Error_Handler

Call checkSettings
Set rst = New ADODB.Recordset
rst.Open "media_elements", cn, adOpenDynamic, adLockOptimistic, adCmdTable
' Update dirList.Path if it is different from the currently
' selected directory, otherwise perform the search.
If dirList.Path <> dirList.List(dirList.ListIndex) Then
dirList.Path = dirList.List(dirList.ListIndex)
' Exit so user can take a look before searching.
Exit Sub
End If
filList.Pattern = txtSearchSpec.Text
filList.Path = dirList.Path
' Used so we are able to get the nextid value form the sequence
Set rst2 = New ADODB.Recordset
' USed so we can get the file size
Set fs = New FileSystemObject
' Loop through all the found files in the selected diretory
frmUpload.Show
x = 0
While x <= filList.ListCount - 1
orgFilePath = filList.Path & "\" & filList.List(x)
frmUpload.lblUpload.Caption = orgFilePath
frmUpload.Refresh
' Get nextval from sequence
Set rst2 = cn.Execute("SELECT icseq_media_elements.nextval as id from du
al")
media_id = rst2.Fields("id").Value
catID = cmbCategories.ItemData(cmbCategories.ListIndex)
' Is the mime type jpg or gif?
orgFile = filList.List(x)
If InStr(1, orgFile, ".jpg") > 0 Then
mime = "image/jpg"
ElseIf InStr(1, orgFile, ".gif") > 0 Then
mime = "image/gif"
Else
mime = ""
End If
' Get the file size

Set f = fs.GetFile(orgFilePath)
fileSize = f.Size
' Insert new record
With rst
.AddNew
!media_id = media_id
Call FileToBlob(rst.Fields("media"), orgFilePath)
!mime_type = mime
!org_file_name = orgFile
!file_size = fileSize
!Description = "Inserted by media bulk upload tool"
!category_id = catID
!user_created = "BULKUPLOAD"
!date_created = Now()
!user_changed = "BULKUPLOAD"
!date_changed = Now()
.Update
End With
' Copy the file
fs.CopyFile orgFilePath, txtPath & media_id & "." & fs.GetExtensionName(
filList.Path & "\" & filList.List(x))
Debug.Print "Copying: " & filList.Path & "\" & filList.List(x) & " -> "
& Me.txtPath.Text & rst2.Fields("id").Value & "." & fs.GetExtensionName(filList.
Path & "\" & filList.List(x))
x = x + 1
Wend
frmUpload.Hide
Exit Sub
Error_Handler:
MsgBox (Err.Description)
Exit Sub
End Sub
And the helper method that does the heavy lifting with regards to loading the by
tes from the file into the vb record.
Sub FileToBlob(fld As ADODB.Field, filename As String, _
Optional ChunkSize As Long = 8192)
Dim fnum As Integer, bytesLeft As Long, bytes As Long
Dim tmp() As Byte
' Raise an error if the field doesn't support GetChunk.
If (fld.Attributes And adFldLong) = 0 Then
Err.Raise 1001, , "Field doesn't support the GetChunk method."
End If
' Open the file; raise an error if the file doesn't exist.
If Dir$(filename) = "" Then Err.Raise 53, , "File not found"
fnum = FreeFile
Open filename For Binary As fnum
' Read the file in chunks, and append data to the field.
bytesLeft = LOF(fnum)
Do While bytesLeft
bytes = bytesLeft

If bytes > ChunkSize Then bytes = ChunkSize

ReDim tmp(1 To bytes) As Byte
Get #1, , tmp
fld.AppendChunk tmp
bytesLeft = bytesLeft - bytes
Loop
Close #fnum
End Sub