1.1.0.21.97: Package Decomposition improvements/issues/bugs

I believe there are a number of improvements that could be made with the package decomposition in the Navigator pane.
It is good that cursors are now sort of being included in the decomposition, but the cursor name doesn't get included.
Can we please have different icons for the different types of objects in the decomposition? In 1.0 we have different icons for variables, etc vs procedures and functions. As an ideal it would be great to have different icons for the different types of variables (ie one for varchar2, one for number, one for date, ... - even with a slightly different icon for constants of each type), but at least having different icons for procedures/functions, cursors, records, types and variables/constants. Especially on the body decomposition for large packages, this would make it significantly easier to find a specific type of object.
Something else that has disappeared from 1.0 is the ability to decompose a procedure/function within a package body. In the 1.0 package body decomposition, a node is created for each of the procedures and functions which can then be expanded to see the variables, sub-procedures/sub-functions in the procedure/function.
It would be good to have a Run right-click context menu for the specification's procedures and functions, like there is for the stored procedures and functions.
Not a big issue, but I preferred the 1.0 way of having the Specification as a separate node on the decomposition, rather than having the specification decomposition as part of the first level.

Cursor name: bug is logged
Request for different icons logged
Sub -procedure issue: Yes this a regression and it's logged.
Menu suggestion: Nice idea - have logged an ER
New structure in 1.1: I'll raise this with the team.
Thanks!
Sue

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Package Decomposition context menu

I am on v1215 and I love the package decomposition (especially jumping to the selected item on double-click), but I have just noticed the context menu on the procedures and functions in the decomposition.
The only item that appears in the context menu on procedures and functions is "New ..." which is the same as the New button on the main toolbar. Variables displayed in the decomposition do not get a context menu.
However, if I have a stored procedure or function open in the Connection pane, select it (opens the procedure/function) display the context menu for it (Open, Compile, Compile for Debug, Run, Debug, Execution Profile, Grant, Revoke, Drop, Compile Dependents) and then, without selecting the function/procedure in the Package decomposition, I right-click on it, the context menu is now New ..., Compile, Compile for Debug.
If I reselect the stored procedure and then right click on a variable in the Package decomposition, I get Compile and Compile for Debug and the menu options.
The same appears to happen for any object type - including views, tables, indexes, etc.
If I then select the procedure in the Package decomposition, the context menu reverts to "New ..." and the Compile and Compile for Debug option disappear from the context menu for the stored procedure (so long as I don't select it before right-clicking on it).
Two issues here:
1) Shouldn't the package decomposition context menu for public procedures and functions allow the Run option (what I was hoping to find when I first tried)?
2) The Compile and Compile for Debug options are not available consistently - they should always be available for objects that can be compiled (stored procedure, function, package, trigger, etc) and never available for objects that cannot be compiled (tables, views, indexes, items in the decomposition of packages, etc).

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1.5.1 Package Decomposition issues

There are still some things that appear to confuse the parsing for the package decomposition in the navigator pane:
--. Forward declarations in package bodies "override" the actual procedure/function, so you can only jump to the forward declaration from the decomposition--
. Defining a constant or variable with a type of form <schema>.<object>.<column>%TYPE displays as "." in the decomposition
. Defining a constant with a type of form <object>.<column>%TYPE displays as "constant" in the decomposition
. Constants or variables based on a custom type or subtype are not displayed in the decomposition
. The tooltip for a parameterless procedure or function in the package body displays the source for that procedure or function up until the first ; (instead of the "is") - ie the end of the first declaration, which can get very long if that is a cursor.
theFurryOne
Edited by: thefurryone on Oct 3, 2008 1:40 PM

Expect all the issues except #1 fixed in 2.0. For #1 i tried the code below and see no problem. Can you please provide a test case?
FUNCTION my_func2 RETURN NUMBER; -- forward declaration
FUNCTION my_func
RETURN NUMBER
IS
BEGIN
RETURN my_func2; -- Legal call
END my_func;
FUNCTION my_func2
RETURN NUMBER
IS
BEGIN
RETURN 0;
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[1.1.1.25.14] Refiltering packages discards existing package decomposition

I am having problems with the package decomposition for already decomposed packages being discarded when refiltering the packages. Filtering out the previously decomposed package and then filtering it back in doesn't fix it and neither does disconnecting and reconnecting. The only thing that seems to fix it is a SQL Developer restart.
This makes it very frustrating to work through code called by a procedure in a set of tightly integrated packages (I am on an Oracle Apps site).

you were talking about refreshing and I was getting the problem when refilteringYou're right, the problem is more extensive than I initially experienced. Thanks for pointing that out.
the thread went off on a tangentHehe, I did got buried there, but resurfaced near the end ;-)
Let's hope we've done a better job in catching the attention this time.
Thanks,
K.

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The package decomposition appears to have taken a bit step backwards with 1.5 EA1. We now only get names of procedures and functions. With 1.2.1.31.12 we also got types, cursors, variables/constants, parameters for procedures/functions and result types for functions.

I had seen your thread about resource usage issues, but this is not about trying to edit package bodies - just the package decomposition in the connection pane.
This is happening for simple package specifications with just a constant and a simple procedure and function, both with parameters. The constant is not displayed in the decomposition, the function return type is not displayed and the parameters are not displayed for either the procedure or the function.

EA3 - Package Decomposition changes

The changes package decomposition from EA2 are definitely heading in the right direction, but a few issues/gripes:
1) It lists the CONSTANT keyword from constant definitions instead of the constant's name ( var_name CONSTANT varchar2(30); )
2) It lists the IN keyword from cursor input variables (ie cursor my_cursor ( p_id IN number ) is ... )
3) Cursor input variables are listed in the package decomposition, so long as they do not have the IN keyword (ie cursor my_other_cursor ( p_id number ) is ... )
4) It lists the IS keyword from subtype definitions (based on a direct data type) and not the sub type name (ie subtype my_type IS varchar2(10); )
5) Subtypes based on %TYPE or %ROWTYPE declarations are not listed
6) It lists the OF keyword from table type definitions and not the type name (ie type my_tab_type is table OF varchar2(80); )
7) Boolean package variables are not displayed at all in the decomposition.
8) Ordering by name is a bit disconcerting to start with - I am used to finding my package body level variables, types, cursors, constants, etc at the top of the package body decomposition, as that is where I declare them.
9) If we get a different icon for date variables, is there a reason why both number and character variables have the 123 icon?
10) I would have thought that a p(..) icon for procedures would have been more distinguishable from functions than the f(..) without the little arrow at the bottom
11) We still cannot tell the return type of functions from the package decomposition
12) Variable declarations based on user defined types (as compared to direct data types) are not displayed
This seems to point to the decomposition being based on finding references to expected data types in the text rather than truely understanding the content of the source code.
theFurryOne

Vadim,
I don't think I am a strong vote either way on the ordering - it is certainly disconcerting having changed, but if it had always been ordered, I don't know whether I would have disliked it.
As to the faster navigation - that depends on what you know about the package and where you are trying to navigate to. If I am looking at a package I know nothing much about and I am trying to navigate to a specific named procedure/function, then alphabetically is better. If I am looking at a package that I know a lot about or I am trying to navigate to the first procedure (for example), then order of declaration is better.
The alternative of opening for editing and collapsing procedure/function definitions isn't really that nice. I have a reasonably sized package which takes up 3/4 of the page on the navigator in the decomposition, but takes nine pages when collapsed in the edit window, due to comments etc.
theFurryOne

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: I was wondering if any of you have worked with DBMS_LOB
: packages. I wrote a procedure that will be invoked from a 'C'
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cannot
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