Sending multiple rows to result set

Question

Hi,
I want multiple rows to be returned from my pl/sql procedure without using cursor?can I do it? Is there any package for this?
also When I use cursor variable how do I capture that return values?
regards
ragh

Answer 1

First Question:
grin. One really big string and a custom parser.
Seriously... I read something about PL/SQL tables being supported in a late/future release... is that true? Do we still use a ref cursor, or can we pass VARRAYS somehow back to Java?
Third question:
Posted earlier by Mark Tomlinson:
This one does it all. Nothing JDeveloper specific here, all JDBC.
* This sample shows how to call a PL/SQL function that opens
* a cursor and get the cursor back as a Java ResultSet.
import java.sql.*;
import java.io.*;
// Importing the Oracle Jdbc driver package makes the code more
readable
import oracle.jdbc.driver.*;
public class retrefcur_samp
public static void main (String args [])
// throws SQLException
try
// Load the driver
DriverManager.registerDriver(new
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
// Connect to the database
// You can put a database name after the @ sign in the
connection URL.
Connection conn =
DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:oci8:@ora8tst",
"scott", "tiger");
// Create the stored procedure
init (conn);
// Prepare a PL/SQL call
CallableStatement call =
conn.prepareCall ("{ ? = call java_refcursor.job_listing
// Find out all the CLERKs person
call.registerOutParameter (1, OracleTypes.CURSOR);
call.setString (2, "*");
call.execute ();
OracleResultSet rset = (OracleResultSet)call.getObject (1);
// Dump the cursor
while (rset.next ()){
System.out.println (rset.getString ("JOB"));
rset.close();
call.close();
} catch(SQLException esql) {
System.out.println("Trouble in river city ");
System.out.println(esql.toString());
// Utility function to create the stored procedure
static void init (Connection conn)
throws SQLException
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement ();
stmt.execute ("create or replace package java_refcursor as "
+
" type myrctype is ref cursor return
EMP%ROWTYPE; " +
" function job_listing (j varchar2) return
myrctype; " +
"end java_refcursor;");
stmt.execute ("create or replace package body java_refcursor
as " +
" function job_listing (j varchar2) return
myrctype is " +
" rc myrctype; " +
" begin " +
" open rc for select * from emp; " +
" return rc; " +
" end; " +
"end java_refcursor;");
stmt.execute ("create or replace package java_ref_clean as "
+
" type myrctype is ref cursor; " +
" function cleanup (cc myrctype) return
number; " +
"end java_ref_clean;");
stmt.execute ("create or replace package body java_ref_clean
as " +
" function cleanup (cc myrctype) return number
is "+
" result number; " +
" begin " +
" close cc; " +
" end; " +
"end java_ref_clean;");
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