How to retrieve data from a REF CURSOR using OCI 8.0?

Question

I found an example in Oracle docs (shown below) that discusses how to bind a REF CURSOR for later data retrieval, but it does not explain actually how to do the later data retrieval.
I hope someone can explain it to me. Thanks
The OCI provides the ability to bind and define PL/SQL REF CURSORs and nested tables. An application can use a statement handle to bind and define these types of variables. As an example, consider this PL/SQL block:
static const text plsql_block = (text )
"begin \
OPEN :cursor1 FOR SELECT empno, ename, job, mgr, sal, deptno \
FROM emp_rc WHERE job=:job ORDER BY empno; \
OPEN :cursor2 FOR SELECT * FROM dept_rc ORDER BY deptno; \
end;";
An application would allocate a statement handle for binding, by calling OCIHandleAlloc(), and then bind the :cursor1 placeholder to the statement handle, as in the following code, where :cursor1 is bound to stm2p. Note that the handle allocation code is not included here.
err = OCIStmtPrepare (stm1p, errhp, (text *) nst_tab, strlen(nst_tab),
OCI_NTV_SYNTAX, OCI_DEFAULT);
err = OCIBindByName (stm1p, (OCIBind **) bndp, errhp,
(text *)":cursor1", (sb4)strlen((char *)":cursor1"),
(dvoid *)&stm2p, (sb4) 0, SQLT_RSET, (dvoid *)0,
(ub2 *)0, (ub2 *)0, (ub4)0, (ub4 *)0, (ub4)OCI_DEFAULT);
In this code, stm1p is the statement handle for the PL/SQL block, while stm2p is the statement handle which is bound as a REF CURSOR for later data retrieval. A value of SQLT_RSET is passed for the dty parameter.

Answer 1

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And the following is thanks to Brett Rosen :
I noticed that you didn't have an OCI entry
on http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/ResultSets/index.html .
Here is OCI code to do this (Oracle 81) if you want to include it on
that page.
Some error checking and cleanup has been removed, but the below should
work. (once dbname has been replaced appropriately)
Brett
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
OCIError* pOciError;
char* pConnectChar = "dbname";
char* pUsernameChar = "scott";
char* pPasswordChar = "tiger";
int answer;
OCIStmt* pOciStatement;
char* sqlCharArray = "BEGIN :success := sp_ListEmp; END;";
int id;
char ename[40];
OCIEnv* g_pOciEnvironment = NULL;
OCIServer* g_pOciServer = NULL;
OCISession* g_pOciSession = NULL;
OCISvcCtx* g_pOciServiceContext = NULL;
sb2* pIndicator=0;
sb2* pIndicator2=0;
sb2* pIndicator3=0;
OCIDefine* pOciDefine;
OCIDefine* pOciDefine2;
OCIBind* pBind;
OCIStmt* cursor;
answer = OCIInitialize(OCI_THREADED, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
answer = OCIEnvInit(&g_pOciEnvironment, OCI_DEFAULT, 0, NULL);
answer = OCIHandleAlloc(g_pOciEnvironment, (void **)&pOciError, OCI_HTYPE_ERROR, 0, NULL);
answer = OCIHandleAlloc(g_pOciEnvironment, (void **)&g_pOciSession, OCI_HTYPE_SESSION, 0, NULL);
answer = OCIHandleAlloc(g_pOciEnvironment, (void **)&g_pOciServer, OCI_HTYPE_SERVER, 0, NULL);
answer = OCIHandleAlloc(g_pOciEnvironment, (void **)&g_pOciServiceContext, OCI_HTYPE_SVCCTX, 0, NULL);
answer = OCIServerAttach(g_pOciServer, pOciError, (unsigned char *)pConnectChar, strlen(pConnectChar),
OCI_DEFAULT);
answer = OCIAttrSet(g_pOciSession, OCI_HTYPE_SESSION, (unsigned char *)pUsernameChar, strlen(pUsernameChar),
OCI_ATTR_USERNAME, pOciError);
answer = OCIAttrSet(g_pOciSession, OCI_HTYPE_SESSION, (unsigned char *)pPasswordChar, strlen(pPasswordChar),
OCI_ATTR_PASSWORD, pOciError);
answer = OCIAttrSet(g_pOciServiceContext, OCI_HTYPE_SVCCTX, g_pOciServer, 0, OCI_ATTR_SERVER, pOciError);
answer = OCIAttrSet(g_pOciServiceContext, OCI_HTYPE_SVCCTX, g_pOciSession, 0, OCI_ATTR_SESSION, pOciError);
answer = OCISessionBegin(g_pOciServiceContext, pOciError, g_pOciSession, OCI_CRED_RDBMS, OCI_DEFAULT);
answer = OCIHandleAlloc(g_pOciEnvironment, (void **)(&pOciStatement), OCI_HTYPE_STMT, 0, NULL);
answer = OCIStmtPrepare(pOciStatement, pOciError, (unsigned char *)sqlCharArray, strlen(sqlCharArray),
OCI_NTV_SYNTAX, OCI_DEFAULT);
answer = OCIHandleAlloc(g_pOciEnvironment, (void **)(&cursor), OCI_HTYPE_STMT, 0, NULL);
answer = OCIBindByPos(pOciStatement,&pBind, pOciError, 1, &cursor, 0,SQLT_RSET,
pIndicator2, 0,NULL, 0,0,OCI_DEFAULT);
answer = OCIStmtExecute(g_pOciServiceContext, pOciStatement, pOciError, 1, 0, NULL, NULL,
OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS);
answer = OCIDefineByPos(cursor,&pOciDefine, pOciError,2,&id,sizeof(int),
SQLT_INT,pIndicator, 0, 0,OCI_DEFAULT);
answer = OCIDefineByPos(cursor,&pOciDefine2, pOciError,1,ename,40,
SQLT_STR,pIndicator3, 0, 0,OCI_DEFAULT);
if (answer == 0)
while ((answer = OCIStmtFetch(cursor,pOciError, 1,OCI_FETCH_NEXT,OCI_DEFAULT)) == 0)
printf("fetched id %d and name %s\n",id,ename);
answer = OCIHandleFree(pOciError, OCI_HTYPE_ERROR);
return 0;
}