Sort items in Table type

Question

Hi All,
I have an object type defined as:
create or replace type test_object as object
item varchar2(50)
, countofitems number(8,0)
And I have a table type defined on this object as:
create or replace table test_object_table is table of test_object;
I am populating the object into them as:
test_object.item := <somename from table>;
test_object.countofitems := <count value>;
test_object_table.EXTEND(1);
test_object_table(test_object_table) := test_object;
The above logic is performed inside a loop statement which has a select query in it. The loop's select query gets the count of each item - one per loop.
Is there anyway, after my loop ends and table type is populated, to sort the data inside in DESC order of countofitems?
Thanks,
Chaitanya

Answer 1

Hi,
yes my data comes from a cursor but that cursor selects counts for one item type at a time only---->
meaning, my cursor is inside another loop statement which provides one value at a time to be used in the WHERE clause.
so essentially, for every loop i would get the counts for 1 item type. each time i am inserting the data into my table type.
if my cursor fetched counts for all items at once, then i could have sorted it , but that is not the case here.
Is there any way I can sort the data once the table type is populated??