Java : write binary data to a mysql out file

I had the need to generate - within Java code - a mysql out file with both text and binary data. The binary data is for some content that has been gzipped and stored as a blob in a mysql table. While it is trivial to write binary data to a blob field directly using JDO, for performance reasons, we had to use the "load infile" approach. Thus the first step was to create an outfile.

Here is the function that would convert binary data to a form that can be written to an out file. It follows the algorithm implemented by mysql for its "SELECT INTO outfile" functionality as described here.

    public static byte[] getEscapedBlob(byte[] blob) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        for (int i=0; i<blob.length; i++) {
            if (blob[i]=='\t' || blob[i]=='\n' || blob[i]=='\\') {
                bos.write('\\');
                bos.write(blob[i]);
            } else if (blob[i] == 0) {
                bos.write('\\');
                bos.write('0');
            } else {
                bos.write(blob[i]);
            }
        }
        return bos.toByteArray();
    }

This is how you would use this function to generate a mysql outfile.

                //gen infile for mysql
                byte[] out = getEscapedBlob(data);
                BufferedOutputStream f = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("/path/to/data.csv")) ;
                String nonBlobFields = "\\N\t10\t20100301\t18\t1102010\t2010-03-01 00:00:00\t";
                byte[] nonBlobData = nonBlobFields.getBytes("UTF-8");
                f.write(nonBlobData, 0, nonBlobData.length);
                f.write(out, 0, out.length);
                f.write('\n');
                f.close();

This writes some integer data followed by the blob data to the outfile, which can then be loaded back using "LOAD INFILE".