Problem with value in object element declared as NUMBER(26,3)

Question

We have an object OBJ_NAME_1 created like below and total element in the object are around 100 with in which only one element is of data type VARCHAR2(4000). Other are with small size as below
create or replace TYPE OBJ_NAME_1 AS OBJECT
( v_col1 VARCHAR2(4),
v_col2 VARCHAR2(4),
d_date DATE,
amount_1 NUMBER(26,3) . . . . . . . . . . .)
And we are creating an VARRY of above object as below:
create or replace TYPE ARRAY_NAME_1 AS VARRAY(1000) OF OBJ_NAME_1
Now we have one procedure with IN parameter of type ARRAY_NAME_1 as below and we are calling this procedure from java.
create or replace PROCEDURE SP_PROC_1 (
P_ARR_1 IN ARRAY_NAME_1,
P_FILE IN VARCHAR2,
E_MESS OUT VARCHAR2,
E_CODE OUT NUMBER) . . . . . . . .
My problem is with value of element amount_1 of array ARRAY_NAME_1 in the procedure. Actually data type of this element is NUMBER(26,3) in object. But from java we are able to pass value like 1234.12345 (with 5 decimal).
The declare section of the procedure are like below :
l_OBJ_NAME_1 OBJ_NAME_1;
m_amount_1     table_1.amount_1%type; /* amount_1 in table_1 declared as NUMBER(26,3)*/
n_amount_1     NUMBER(26,3);
In the begin section we are assigning variable like below:
IF (P_ARR_1 .COUNT>0) THEN
FOR i IN P_ARR_1.FIRST .. P_ARR_1.LAST LOOP
l_OBJ_NAME_1 := P_ARR_1(i);
m_amount_1 := P_ARR_1(i).amount_1;
n_amount_1 := P_ARR_1(i).amount_1;
END LOOP;
The value of variables are below after above assignment:
l_OBJ_NAME_1 . Amount_1 → 234.12345 (without round off)
m_amount_1 → 234.12345 (without round off)
n_amount_1 → 234.123 (with round off)
Actually all the above 3 variable/element has been declared as NUMBER(26,3), then the value in these variables should be with rounded up to 3 decimal place. Then why it is not happening with variable
l_OBJ_NAME_1 . Amount_1 and m_amount_1?
Please help.
Edited by: SANT007 on Aug 12, 2011 9:45 AM

Answer 1

Okay, thanks Patrick. I commented that out so now I can see the full error message. Actually, now the page just returns an "OK" (nothing else), and I click on that to return back to the page where I see:
Checksum error for Hidden and Protected item ID (26968176992578859), value ([object]), posted checksum (326873D5A54A4AF425EC4D500B9B4D02), expected checksum (********************************), index_i (10), index_j (2), index_m (2);
Okay, so that's evidently a new option in 3.1, it should have just been a 'Hidden' item, not 'Hidden and Protected'. So, I change this back to just 'Hidden', refressh the page, the re-execute it and try to select from the popup again. This time, instead of the more-or-less blank page with only "OK" on it, I also get "ORA-01722: invalid number" above the "OK". When I click the "OK", then I am returned back to the last good 'runnable' page I executed (since the search page is no longer 'runnable' (the javascript evidently is still returning an object instead of a number).
On a previous run of trying to track the problem down, I made the :P3_SEQ as a regular text field so I could try to see what was going on, and it briefly displayed "[object]" before the search executed and returned the error.
So thanks for helping me get past the first stage so I could see a better version of what the error is. Now I just need to figure out why an object is being returned instead of number. This worked fine in 3.0, and the only thing I can think of is that something, somewhere in 3.1's javascript is slightly different now, but I really don't know.
Bill Ferguson