SQL for views with constraints

Question

We use a product that requires us to have pk's on all of our views. So when I generate the SQL using DBMS_METADATA or using SQL Developer we have to keep the original scripts so that we can manually insert the constraint definition into the generated script.
I noted that while browsing the SQL tab for each view I can see the constraint in the view definition. So where is this tab generating it's SQL from? It's not in the text of the view, and dbms_metadata does not seem to do it.
It would be useful for me to be able to generate them with the constraint in the text already as this process that we do now is cumbersome.
Can anyone tell me where/how I can do that?
Cheers,
Henri

Answer 1

OK, here is little test:
alter view emp_sal
add constraint emp_sal_uk unique (ename) DISABLE NOVALIDATE ;
After that command the view definition is
CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "SCOTT"."EMP_SAL" ("EMPNO", "ENAME", "SAL",
     UNIQUE ("EMPNO") RELY DISABLE,
     CONSTRAINT "ID_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("EMPNO") RELY DISABLE,
     CONSTRAINT "EMP_SAL_UK" UNIQUE ("ENAME") DISABLE) AS
SELECT empno, ename, sal FROM emp;
so that the constraint becomes effectively inline. It is displayed with
select dbms_metadata.GET_DDL('VIEW', 'EMP_SAL') from dual;