Having Problem when passing values to a procedure for VPD

Question

Hi
I am executing my security policy by passing the following tokens
exec app_security_context_ipay.set_Region_ccode('(130,''375988''),(130,''s1a''),(130,''S1E''),(130,''S1F''),(130,''S1H''),(130,''s25''),(130,''sb8''),(130,''SB9''),130,''SBB''),(130,''SBT''),(130,''SBU''),(130,''SBV''),(130,''scn''),(130,''SCV''),(130,''seg''),(130,''sfa''),(130,''SNB''),(130,''SNC''),130,''SPE''),(130,''SRL''),(130,''SS''),(130,''stt''),(130,''SVA''),(130,''SWK''),(130,''SWM''),(130,''SXB''),(130,''SXC''),(130,''SXD''),130,''SXE''),130,''SXX''),130,''SY8''),130,''SZ''),(130,''SZ4''),(130,''SZ5''),(130,''SZD''),(130,''szs'')');
and then when I run the query it gives me the error that the Policy Predicate has an error. I Looked up in the dump file the following error was there.
Error information for ORA-28113:
Logon user : CRUVPD
Synonym : CRUVPD.T_IPAY_USER
Policy name : TIPAYUSER_IPAY_POLICY
Policy function: SECUSR.OE_SECURITY_IPAY.REGION_CCODE_SEC
RLS predicate :
(REGCODE,CCODE) in ((130,'375988'), (130,'s1a'),(130,'S1E'),(130,'S1F'),(130,'S1
H'), (130,'s25'),(130,'sb8'),(130,'SB9'), (130,'SBB'),(130,'SBT'),(130,'SBU'), (
130,'SBV'),(130,'scn'),(130,'SCV'), (130,'seg'),(130,'sfa'),(130,'SNB'), (130,'S
NC'),(130,'SPE'),(130,'SRL'), (130,')
ORA-00920: invalid relational operator
ORA-00920: invalid relational operator
It seems like it is truncating the rest of the tokens and making the Predicate Function to produce an error.
How can I pass the Values that exceed the lenght of the sqlplus size.
I have tried to give line breaks and also tried to use the - for line continuation but still not working.
I need the solution Badly and Urgently, Any Help would be greatly Appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

IN Clauses and parameterized queries can be tricky beasts; so while logically it makes sense to do what you want (it does not do so in databases!)
you can handle this problem in a few ways:
1) anonymous sql (don't recommend)
2) a user defined type and function as such
--see  http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:210612357425
--create a table of numbers ,create a function to split the "where" into a table
--then return the data
CREATE OR REPLACE type numberTableType as table      of number;
create or replace function in_number(  p_string in varchar2 ) return numberTableType  AS
        l_string        long default p_string || ',';
        l_data          numberTableType := numberTableType();
        l_number        number ;
        N               NUMBER;
    BEGIN
      loop
          exit when l_string is null;
          n := instr( l_string, ',' );
         l_data.extend;
         begin --is user inputs a non-numeric value  skip the value
            l_number := cast(ltrim( rtrim( substr( l_string, 1, n-1 ) ) )  as number);
            l_data(l_data.count) := l_number ;
            EXCEPTION
                    WHEN VALUE_ERROR THEN
                        l_number := 0;
                    WHEN OTHERS THEN
                        raise ;
         end ;
         l_string := substr( l_string, n+1 );
    end loop;
    RETURN L_DATA;
  END in_number;
--then your code
AND S.GroupID IN (select column_value from table(in_number(groupID_))3) actually, just look at this blog posting! it does a better job at this than I am!
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2006/06/varying-in-lists.html