Hi folks:�� I started to code a bit the large support for SqueakDBX to large objects and I want to ask you for help. In a first step, I will start with the basic large objects: CLOB, NCLOB, XML, BLOB.
Now, I need to map each of them, to an Smalltalk object. I though about this:

CLOB -> String
NCLOB -> String�
XML -> String and the the user do whatever they want with the string representing the XML.
BLOB ->� ByteArray

what do you think? are there suitable objects in a core image ?�� (I don't want to depend in another package)

Now, do you know which is the faster why to create a ByteArray from a String ? and vice-versa ? just asString ?

Another question....to get a field value of a row, I call an OpenDBX� using FFI like this:

apiQueryFieldValue: handle index: index
�� "const char* odbx_field_value( odbx_result_t* result, unsigned long pos )"
�� <cdecl: char* 'odbx_field_value' (ulong ulong) module: 'opendbx'>
�� ^self externalCallFailed

As you can see that function of OpenDBX answer me in a char* the value of the field. The problem is...suppose that field is a large object (a CLOB for example). A Clob can be 1gb or even more....of course, that will be bad for my image (freeze ? crash ?�� I don't know...).�� I would like to validate the size of that before bring it into the image, so that not to crash or whatever. I want to put like a limit. The problem is that I don't know how to do that from Pharo side....is that possible ?�� or the only way is to change OpenDBX side ?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Mariano