From 257501ce37675fb72dcbd362199d816cc343dfe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Massimo Di Pierro <mdipierro@OfficeMacPro.local>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:23:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] improved oparsing of CLOB in Oracle, thanks Daniel

---
 VERSION      | 2 +-
 gluon/dal.py | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 97245b88..cca4a5d3 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.00.0 (2012-08-24 09:15:19) dev
+Version 2.00.0 (2012-08-24 09:23:07) dev
diff --git a/gluon/dal.py b/gluon/dal.py
index c6bc6e1d..62d1ca80 100644
--- a/gluon/dal.py
+++ b/gluon/dal.py
@@ -2735,6 +2735,14 @@ class OracleAdapter(BaseAdapter):
         self.execute('SELECT %s.currval FROM dual;' % sequence_name)
         return int(self.cursor.fetchone()[0])
 
+    def parse_value(self, value, field_type, blob_decode=True):
+        if blob_decode and isinstance(value, cx_Oracle.LOB):
+            try:
+                value = value.read()
+            except cx_Oracle.ProgrammingError:
+                # After a subsequent fetch the LOB value is not valid anymore
+                pass
+        return BaseAdapter.parse_value(self, value, field_type, blob_decode)
 
 class MSSQLAdapter(BaseAdapter):