Help needed in Ref cursor

Question

Hi,
I am new to Ref Cursor concepts and I am trying a small block but its throwing error. Pls help me.
PACKAGE SPEC:
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE PKG_JOBINFO AS
PROCEDURE JOBINFO ( v_job_id IN number, p_cursor OUT PKG_JOBINFO.RESULT_REF_CURSOR);
TYPE RESULT_REF_CURSOR IS REF CURSOR;
END PKG_JOBINFO;
PACKAGE BODY:
CREATE OR REPLACE package body PKG_JOBINFO
AS
PROCEDURE JOBINFO ( v_job_id IN number,
p_cursor OUT PKG_JOBINFO.RESULT_REF_CURSOR)
AS
BEGIN
OPEN p_cursor FOR
SELECT JOB_ID,
JOB_NAME,
TABLE_NAME
FROM JOB_INFO
WHERE JOB_ID=V_JOB_ID;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
raise;
END;
END;
While compiling the package i am not getting any errors. I am getting errors only while executing
SQL> exec PKG_JOBINFO.JOBINFO ('23');
BEGIN PKG_JOBINFO.JOBINFO ('23'); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to 'JOBINFO'
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
Please help me to resolve this error.
Thanks.

Answer 1

user497267 wrote:
Thanks its working. So if we are using ref cursor we have to execute like this only.To add...
The actual issue you were experiencing was not because you were using ref cursors specifically, but because you had an OUT parameter in your procedure.
When you have an OUT parameter, you need to ensure that you pass in a variable to that parameter of the procedure in order that the procedure can populate it. In your case you were only passing in the first parameter, but you weren't passing in a variable to capture the OUTput.
What Alex showed was that by declaring a variable of the same datatype (ref cursor in your case) and passing that in as the second parameter, that variable was populated with the ref cursor information from inside the procedure. Once that variable was populated, after the procedure call, the data from that ref cursor can be obtained (using SQL*Plus' print command in Alex's example).