I'm working on a wrapper for MariaDB Connector C. There is a typical situation when a developer doesn't know a length of a data stored in a field. As I figured out, one of the ways to obtain a real length of the field is to pass a buffer of lengths to mysql_stmt_bind_result and then to fetch each column by calling mysql_stmt_fetch_column. But I can't understand how the function mysql_stmt_fetch_column works because I'm getting a memory corruption and app abortion.
Here is how I'm trying to reach my goal
// preparations here
...
if (!mysql_stmt_execute(stmt))
{
int columnNum = mysql_stmt_field_count(stmt);
if (columnNum > 0)
{
MYSQL_RES* metadata = mysql_stmt_result_metadata(stmt);
MYSQL_FIELD* fields = mysql_fetch_fields(metadata);
MYSQL_BIND* result = new MYSQL_BIND[columnNum];
std::memset(result, 0, sizeof (MYSQL_BIND) * columnNum);
std::vector<unsigned long> lengths;
lengths.resize(columnNum);
for (int i = 0; i < columnNum; ++i)
result[i].length = &lengths[i];
if (!mysql_stmt_bind_result(stmt, result))
{
while (true)
{
int status = mysql_stmt_fetch(stmt);
if (status == 1)
{
m_lastError = mysql_stmt_error(stmt);
isOK = false;
break;
}
else if (status == MYSQL_NO_DATA)
{
isOK = true;
break;
}
for (int i = 0; i < columnNum; ++i)
{
my_bool isNull = true;
if (lengths.at(i) > 0)
{
result[i].buffer_type = fields[i].type;
result[i].is_null = &isNull;
result[i].buffer = malloc(lengths.at(i));
result[i].buffer_length = lengths.at(i);
mysql_stmt_fetch_column(stmt, result, i, 0);
if (!isNull)
{
// here I'm trying to read a result and I'm getting a valid result only from the first column
}
}
}
}
}
}
If I put an array to the mysql_stmt_fetch_column then I'm fetching the only first field valid, all other fields are garbage. If I put a single MYSQL_BIND structure to this function, then I'm getting an abortion of the app on approximately 74th field (funny thing that it's always this field). If I use another array of MYSQL_BIND then the situation is the same as the first case.
Please help me to understand how to use it correctly! Thanks