Handling result form Stored Proc in java program

Question

Folks, I have a question on how to handle results from Stored Procedures with the java.sql API. I execute a stored proc from a java program using the statement:
statement.execute();
where 'statement' is of type Statement. Then I get the results:
ResultSet rs = query.getResultSet();
The above returns me a ResultSet object. Now, my stored proc is such that it will return an integer in case of errors (as error code), and, if no error,it'll return the result set. Because I wouldn't know if the stored proc is returning an integer or a result set, how do I get the result of the stored proc in the java program? 'query.getResultSet()' would get me only an object of type ResultSet. What if the stored proc is returning an integer (i.e. when an error occurs)?
Thanks.

Answer 1

GSP wrote:
Thanks to all for your replies. I do not have access to modify the stored procedure. I can just use it in my java program. The stored proc first validates its input parameters. If it finds them invalid, then it returns an appropriate error code (which is an integer) depending on which input param is found invalid. If all the input parameters are found valid, then it fetches the rows from the DB tables & returns them as result set. Now my question is: say if I give a statement as this in my java program:
ResultSet rs = query.getResultSet();
what if the stored proc returns an error code (Since the above statement gets only ResultSet object, how will it handle if the stored proc returns an int)? Is there any alternative?
Ok, so there is a piece of missing data.
Store procs, conceptuatlly can return data in a variety of ways.
So the first step is to determine how the data is being returned.
Unless you know that there is no way to determine how to use it in java.