Get byte[] from MySQL in Json format
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I've been trying for a while to get a byte[] from my database blob and then parse it to json and send it to my clients. I first get the blob from the database and then I get the byte array by doing:

    MyObject temp = new MyObject()
    Blob icon = dbResult.getBlob(1);
    temp.setIcon(icon.getBytes(1, (int)icon.length()));

Later on I parse MyObject to a json string which I send back to clients. But it seems that the json string becomes pretty much corrupted when parsing the byte[].

An example of how it might look:

    [{"icon":"/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD/2wBDAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJCQgKDBQNDAsLDBkSEw8UHRofHh0aHBwgJC4nICIsIxwcKDcpLDAxNDQ0Hyc5PTgyPC4zNDL/2wBDAQkJCQwLDBgNDRgyIRwhMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjL/wAARCAFQAPwDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAHAAAAQUBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgEDBAUGAAcI

I parsed this to json in my webservice which is a jersery webservice. When i try to parse it from json into a class object at client side, it throws IllegalStateException(Gson).

Anyone knows what this is about and what i'm doing wrong?

