[Solved] 27.8.4 How to Create a VO on a REF CURSOR - Missing first row

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Searching the forum I found: BC4J - Get one less row from view object.
Dive into BC4J related  --REF CURSOR (Resultset)
The first message did not have any answers, and the second had a follow up question - still no answers though - and I thought I would try a different title.
(This is off topic, but it would be a great help if the search results also displayed the number of replys in the thread. That way, I wouldn't have to view the messages that don't have responses.)
(This will be deployed on a server that has the ADF for JDeveloper 10.1.2 installed, so using that version of JDeveloper to develop the app.)
Okay, back to the problem ==>
I created a VO from a ref cursor, using the manual as a guide. When I run a page that displays a read only table of the view object, I am missing the first row. (Always the first row!) I don't have any order set, and if I call the ref cursor in a Java program for testing, I see all rows and the count is correct.
One other point, when I call the page, I get the following validation error:
Validation Error
You must correct the following error(s) before proceeding:
* JBO-29000: Unexpected exception caught: java.lang.ClassCastException, msg=null
* null
I still see the table, it is just missing the first row of data.
In my form I have first, previous set, next set , and last
navigation buttons. If I press last then first, the error goes away. I still don't see the missing row though.
Any guidance would be appreciated! I can post my code, but it is pretty much the same code in the AdvancedViewObjectExamples.zip in the ViewObjectOnRefCursor example. I just substituted my two package calls (getRefCursor and getRefCursorCount).
Thanks, Ken

Answer 1

Went back to a backup copy of the source. Fixed the error. Now I'm back to just not being able to see the first row of data.
Additional Note: I had removed fields in the display. Once I truncated the ps_txn table in the schema defined by the model, the data would display (Still without the first record.)
Are there any examples that are more in depth than the few pages in the developer guide?
Here is the code for my VOImpl class:
package newslinearchive.model.datamodel;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.sql.CallableStatement;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.sql.Types;
import oracle.jbo.InvalidParamException;
import oracle.jbo.JboException;
import oracle.jbo.domain.Date;
import oracle.jbo.domain.Number;
import oracle.jbo.server.DBTransaction;
import oracle.jbo.server.QueryCollection;
import oracle.jbo.server.SQLBuilder;
import oracle.jbo.server.ViewObjectImpl;
import oracle.jbo.server.ViewRowImpl;
import oracle.jbo.server.ViewRowSetImpl;
import oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleCallableStatement;
import oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleTypes;
// --- File generated by Oracle ADF Business Components Design Time.
// --- Custom code may be added to this class.
// --- Warning: Do not modify method signatures of generated methods.
public class SearchRefCursorImpl extends ViewObjectImpl {
* This is the default constructor (do not remove)
public SearchRefCursorImpl() {
* Overridden framework method.
* Executed when the framework needs to issue the database query for
* the query collection based on this view object. One view object
* can produce many related result sets, each potentially the result
* of different bind variable values. If the rowset in query is involved
* in a framework-coordinated master/detail viewlink, then the params array
* will contain one or more framework-supplied bind parameters. If there
* are any user-supplied bind parameter values, they will PRECEED the
* framework-supplied bind variable values in the params array, and the
* number of user parameters will be indicated by the value of the
* numUserParams argument.
protected void executeQueryForCollection(Object qc,Object[] params,int numUserParams) {
storeNewResultSet(qc,retrieveRefCursor(qc,params));
super.executeQueryForCollection(qc, params, numUserParams);
* Overridden framework method.
* Wipe out all traces of a built-in query for this VO
protected void create() {
getViewDef().setQuery(null);
getViewDef().setSelectClause(null);
setQuery(null);
* Overridden framework method.
* The role of this method is to "fetch", populate, and return a single row
* from the datasource by calling createNewRowForCollection() and populating
* its attributes using populateAttributeForRow().
protected ViewRowImpl createRowFromResultSet(Object qc, ResultSet rs) {
* We ignore the JDBC ResultSet passed by the framework (null anyway) and
* use the resultset that we've stored in the query-collection-private
* user data storage
rs = getResultSet(qc);
* Create a new row to populate
ViewRowImpl r = createNewRowForCollection(qc);
try {
* Populate new row by attribute slot number for current row in Result Set
// populateAttributeForRow(r,0, rs.getLong(1));
// populateAttributeForRow(r,1, rs.getString(2));
// populateAttributeForRow(r,2, rs.getString(3));
// MASTERID NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,0, rs.getBigDecimal(1));
//ID NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,1, rs.getBigDecimal(2));
// CAID NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,2, rs.getBigDecimal(3));
// LANGUAGE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
populateAttributeForRow(r,3, rs.getString(4));
// IS_CURRENT_VERSION NOT NULL NUMBER(1)
populateAttributeForRow(r,4, rs.getBigDecimal(5));
// FOLDER_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,5, rs.getBigDecimal(6));
// FOLDER_REGION_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,6, rs.getBigDecimal(7));
// NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(256)
populateAttributeForRow(r,7, rs.getString(8));
// DISPLAY_NAME VARCHAR2(256)
populateAttributeForRow(r,8, rs.getString(9));
// ITEMTYPE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
populateAttributeForRow(r,9, rs.getString(10));
// SUBTYPE VARCHAR2(40)
populateAttributeForRow(r,10, rs.getString(11));
// SUBTYPE_CAID NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,11, rs.getBigDecimal(12));
// PARENT_ITEM_ID NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,12, rs.getBigDecimal(13));
// CATEGORY_ID NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,13, rs.getBigDecimal(14));
// CATEGORY_CAID NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,14, rs.getBigDecimal(15));
// AUTHOR VARCHAR2(50)
populateAttributeForRow(r,15, rs.getString(16));
// DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(2000)
populateAttributeForRow(r,16, rs.getString(17));
// PUBLISH_DATE NOT NULL DATE
populateAttributeForRow(r,17, rs.getDate(18));
// EXPIREMODE VARCHAR2(90)
populateAttributeForRow(r,18, rs.getString(19));
// EXPIRENUMBER NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,19, rs.getBigDecimal(20));
// EXPIREDATE DATE
populateAttributeForRow(r,20, rs.getDate(21));
// IMAGE VARCHAR2(350)
populateAttributeForRow(r,21, rs.getString(22));
// KEYWORDS VARCHAR2(2000)
populateAttributeForRow(r,22, rs.getString(23));
// URL VARCHAR2(4000)
populateAttributeForRow(r,23, rs.getString(24));
// FILENAME VARCHAR2(350)
populateAttributeForRow(r,24, rs.getString(25));
// TEXT CLOB()
populateAttributeForRow(r,25, rs.getClob(26));
// FOLDER_LINK_ID NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,26, rs.getBigDecimal(27));
// FOLDER_LINK_CAID NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,27, rs.getBigDecimal(28));
// ACTIVE NOT NULL NUMBER(1)
populateAttributeForRow(r,28, rs.getBigDecimal(29));
// CAN_BE_CHECKEDOUT NUMBER(1)
populateAttributeForRow(r,29, rs.getBigDecimal(30));
// IS_ITEM_CHECKEDOUT NUMBER(1)
populateAttributeForRow(r,30, rs.getBigDecimal(31));
// CHECKER_USERNAME VARCHAR2(256)
populateAttributeForRow(r,31, rs.getString(32));
// CHECKOUT_DATE DATE
populateAttributeForRow(r,32, rs.getDate(33));
// FULLSCREEN NOT NULL NUMBER(1)
populateAttributeForRow(r,33, rs.getBigDecimal(34));
// INPLACE NOT NULL NUMBER(1)
populateAttributeForRow(r,34, rs.getBigDecimal(35));
// CREATEDATE NOT NULL DATE
populateAttributeForRow(r,35, rs.getDate(36));
// CREATOR NOT NULL VARCHAR2(256)
populateAttributeForRow(r,36, rs.getString(37));
// UPDATEDATE DATE
populateAttributeForRow(r,37, rs.getDate(38));
// UPDATOR VARCHAR2(256)
populateAttributeForRow(r,38, rs.getString(39));
// SECURITY VARCHAR2(25)
populateAttributeForRow(r,39, rs.getString(40));
// VISIBLE NOT NULL NUMBER(1)
populateAttributeForRow(r,40, rs.getBigDecimal(41));
// SEQUENCE NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,41, rs.getBigDecimal(42));
// CATEGORY_SEQUENCE NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,42, rs.getBigDecimal(43));
// AUTHOR_SEQUENCE NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,43, rs.getBigDecimal(44));
// CREATE_DATE_SEQUENCE NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,44, rs.getBigDecimal(45));
// ITEMTYPE_SEQUENCE NOT NULL NUMBER
populateAttributeForRow(r,45, rs.getBigDecimal(46));
catch (SQLException s) {
throw new JboException(s);
return r;
* Overridden framework method.
* Return true if the datasource has at least one more record to fetch.
protected boolean hasNextForCollection(Object qc) {
ResultSet rs = getResultSet(qc);
boolean nextOne = false;
try {
nextOne = rs.next();
* When were at the end of the result set, mark the query collection
* as "FetchComplete".
if (!nextOne) {
setFetchCompleteForCollection(qc, true);
* Close the result set, we're done with it
rs.close();
catch (SQLException s) {
throw new JboException(s);
return nextOne;
* Overridden framework method.
* The framework gives us a chance to clean up any resources related
* to the datasource when a query collection is done being used.
protected void releaseUserDataForCollection(Object qc, Object rs) {
* Ignore the ResultSet passed in since we've created our own.
* Fetch the ResultSet from the User-Data context instead
ResultSet userDataRS = getResultSet(qc);
if (userDataRS != null) {
try {
userDataRS.close();
catch (SQLException s) {
/* Ignore */
super.releaseUserDataForCollection(qc, rs);
* Overridden framework method
* Return the number of rows that would be returned by executing
* the query implied by the datasource. This gives the developer a
* chance to perform a fast count of the rows that would be retrieved
* if all rows were fetched from the database. In the default implementation
* the framework will perform a SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (...) wrapper query
* to let the database return the count. This count might only be an estimate
* depending on how resource-intensive it would be to actually count the rows.
public long getQueryHitCount(ViewRowSetImpl viewRowSet) {
Long result = (Long)callStoredFunction(NUMBER,
"PORTAL.SEARCH_REFCURSOR.getRefCursorCount",
viewRowSet.getParameters(true));
return result.longValue();
// ------------- PRIVATE METHODS ----------------
* Return a JDBC ResultSet representing the REF CURSOR return
* value from our stored package function.
* new Object[]{getNamedBindParamValue("Email",params)}
private ResultSet retrieveRefCursor(Object qc, Object[] params) {
ResultSet rs = (ResultSet)callStoredFunction(OracleTypes.CURSOR,
"PORTAL.SEARCH_REFCURSOR.getRefCursor",
null);
return rs ;
private Object getNamedBindParamValue(String varName, Object[] params) {
Object result = null;
if (getBindingStyle() == SQLBuilder.BINDING_STYLE_ORACLE_NAME) {
if (params != null) {
for (Object param : params) {
Object[] nameValue = (Object[])param;
String name = (String)nameValue[0];
if (name.equals(varName)) {
return (String)nameValue[1];
throw new JboException("No bind variable named '"+varName+"'");
* Store a new result set in the query-collection-private user-data context
private void storeNewResultSet(Object qc, ResultSet rs) {
ResultSet existingRs = getResultSet(qc);
// If this query collection is getting reused, close out any previous rowset
if (existingRs != null) {
try {existingRs.close();} catch (SQLException s) {}
setUserDataForCollection(qc,rs);
hasNextForCollection(qc); // Prime the pump with the first row.
* Retrieve the result set wrapper from the query-collection user-data
private ResultSet getResultSet(Object qc) {
return (ResultSet)getUserDataForCollection(qc);
* Return either null or a new oracle.jbo.domain.Date
private static Date nullOrNewDate(Timestamp t) {
return t != null ? new Date(t) : null;
* Return either null or a new oracle.jbo.domain.Number
private static Number nullOrNewNumber(BigDecimal b) {
try {
return b != null ? new Number(b) : null;
catch (SQLException s) { }
return null;
//----------------[ Begin Helper Code ]------------------------------
public static int NUMBER = Types.NUMERIC;
public static int DATE = Types.DATE;
public static int VARCHAR2 = Types.VARCHAR;
public static int CLOB = Types.CLOB;
* Simplifies calling a stored function with bind variables
* You can use the NUMBER, DATE, and VARCHAR2 constants in this
* class to indicate the function return type for these three common types,
* otherwise use one of the JDBC types in the java.sql.Types class.
* NOTE: If you want to invoke a stored procedure without any bind variables
* ==== then you can just use the basic getDBTransaction().executeCommand()
* @param sqlReturnType JDBC datatype constant of function return value
* @param stmt stored function statement
* @param bindVars Object array of parameters
* @return function return value as an Object
protected Object callStoredFunction(int sqlReturnType, String stmt,
Object[] bindVars) {
CallableStatement st = null;
try {
st = getDBTransaction().createCallableStatement("begin ? := " + stmt +
"; end;", 0);
st.registerOutParameter(1, sqlReturnType);
if (bindVars != null) {
for (int z = 0; z < bindVars.length; z++) {
st.setObject(z + 2, bindVars[z]);
st.executeUpdate();
return st.getObject(1);
catch (SQLException e) {
throw new JboException(e);
finally {
if (st != null) {
try {
st.close();
catch (SQLException e) {}
/**Gets the bind variable value for Email
public String getEmail() {
return (String)getNamedWhereClauseParam("Email");
/**Sets <code>value</code> for bind variable Email
public void setEmail(String value) {
setNamedWhereClauseParam("Email", value);
/**getEstimatedRowCount - overridden for custom java data source support.
public long getEstimatedRowCount() {
long value = super.getEstimatedRowCount();
return value;
Thanks, Ken