Returning Multiple Rows From DBAdapter Calling PL/SQL Procedure

Question

Oracle XE 10g Express Edition
JDeveloper 11.1.1.2.0
WebLogic Server 11g
Guys,
I have a table of orders, which I need to interrogate, and pass back any matching rows which meet certain criteria (e.g. status = 'OPEN').
However, rather than create a DBAdapter using an Operation Type of "Peform an Operation on a Table/Select", I need to use an Operation Type of "Call a Stored Procedure or Function".
I therefore need the procedure to return all the matching rows, rather than a single row.
I have looked at declaring return parameters for the procedure of the following types:
RECORD - is good because it allows me to return the elements of the row with their correct datatypes, but does not meet my needs because it will only support the return of a single row.
VARRAY - good because it can contain many row elements, but not good because it only supports a single row return, and also because all elements of the VARRAY must be of the same data type.
TABLE - good because it can contain many rows, but bad because each row can contain only two elements - the index element and the data element.
I think I could first define a RECORD (to hold a row), and then define a TABLE, with the data element being the RECORD, but I have found JDeveloper very fussy indeed when dealing with 'non-standard' data types in the DBAdapter.
Apologies if I am missing something obvious, but can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
Many thanks in advance.
Edited by: user2541290 on 17-Feb-2010 02:48

Answer 1

Hi, I've been able to create process that seems to work. My platform is a but different but I don't think this is important for your question.
Here is the PL/SQL code. Just make Db Adapter for Calling stored procedure and it returns all rows!
Be aware of possible limitations on how manyrows you could return in one select! This can have severe impact on performance.
Succes.
Jos Baan
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE lab2_multiple_rows IS
-- Author : 801455
-- Created : 18-2-2010 8:05:52
-- Purpose :
-- Public type declarations
TYPE rrows IS RECORD(
mutdat DATE,
opmerking VARCHAR2(20));
TYPE trows IS TABLE OF rrows INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
-- Public constant declarations
-- Public variable declarations
-- Public function and procedure declarations
FUNCTION retrows RETURN trows;
END lab2_multiple_rows;
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY lab2_multiple_rows IS
-- Private type declarations
-- Private constant declarations
-- Private variable declarations
-- Function and procedure implementations
FUNCTION retrows RETURN trows IS
lrows trows;
lidx binary_integer := 1;
BEGIN
FOR rsql IN (SELECT t.* FROM jba_transactions t ORDER BY t.mutdat)
LOOP
lrows(lidx).mutdat := rsql.mutdat;
lrows(lidx).opmerking := rsql.opmerking;
lidx := lidx + 1;
END LOOP;
RETURN(lrows);
END;
BEGIN
-- Initialization
NULL;
END lab2_multiple_rows;
Edited by: Baan, Jos on 18-feb-2010 8:53