Stored Procedures with Date data types and Oracle

Question

This should be easy.... But i keep getting the error:
[Macromedia][Oracle JDBC Driver][Oracle]ORA-06550: line 1,
column 7: PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to
'RETRIEVE_TS' ORA-06550: line 1, column 7: PL/SQL: Statement
ignored
And I got it worked out to where i know it is a problem with
the way i am using the date data types in a stored procedure....
In the past i usually avoided calling procedures in Oracle
with date as the in type.... It is always easiest to let oracle
convert the string to a date.... Unfortunately now i am stuck with
having a date type in the procedure call.... So the question is:
WHAT IS THE PROPER WAY TO SUBMIT DATE/TIME STAMP IN A STORED
PROCEDURE?
The Oracle Procedure looks like this:
PROCEDURE retrieve_ts (
p_at_tsv_rc IN OUT sys_refcursor,
p_units IN OUT VARCHAR2,
p_officeid IN VARCHAR2,
p_timeseries_desc IN VARCHAR2,
p_start_time IN DATE,
p_end_time IN DATE,
p_timezone IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'GMT',
p_trim IN NUMBER DEFAULT false_num,
p_inclusive IN NUMBER DEFAULT NULL,
p_versiondate IN DATE DEFAULT NULL,
p_max_version IN NUMBER DEFAULT true_num
AND the stored procedure call looks like this:
<cfset ed = Now()>
<cfset sd = #DateAdd("d",-lbt,Now())#>
<cfstoredproc datasource="CWMS"
procedure="cwms.cwms_ts.retrieve_ts"
returncode="no">
<cfprocparam type="inout" variable="unit" value="#unit#"
dbvarname="@p_units"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
<cfprocparam type="in" value="MVS"
dbvarname="@p_officeid"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
<cfprocparam type="in" value=#id.cwms_ts_id#
dbvarname="@p_timeseries_desc"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
<cfprocparam type="in" value="#sd#"
dbvarname="@p_start_time"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_date">
<cfprocparam type="in" value="#ed#"
dbvarname="@p_end_time"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_date">
<cfprocparam type="in" value="#tz#"
dbvarname="@p_time_zone"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
<cfprocparam type="in" value="0"
dbvarname="@p_trim"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_numeric">
<cfprocparam type="in" value=""
null = "yes"
dbvarname="@p_inclusive"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_numeric">
<cfprocparam type="in" value=""
null="yes"
dbvarname="@p_versiondate"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_date">
<cfprocparam type="in" value="1"
dbvarname="@p_max_version"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_numeric">
<cfprocresult name="ts_dat">
</cfstoredproc>
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Answer 1

Yeah.... One is a type INOUT ref cursor.... which is denoted
by the cfprocresult....
By the way:
Phil - the code example with a little tweaking worked fine on
my machine....
<<cfstoredproc procedure="test_pkg.test"
datasource="myDSN" returncode="no">
<cfprocparam type="IN" cfsqltype="cf_sql_timestamp"
value="15-JUN-2005">
<cfprocparam type="OUT" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"
variable="v_out">
<cfprocresult name="rs1">
</cfstoredproc>
PROCEDURE test(
v3_out OUT ref_cur_type,
v1_in IN date default null,
v2_out OUT varchar2
IS
BEGIN
v2_out := TO_CHAR(v1_in, 'mm/dd/yyyy');
OPEN v3_out
FOR
SELECT *
FROM user
WHERE activation_date >= v1_in;
END test;
Why do i still get this error......
Here is what it looks like now:
PROCEDURE retrieve_ts (
p_at_tsv_rc IN OUT sys_refcursor,
p_units IN OUT VARCHAR2,
p_officeid IN VARCHAR2,
p_timeseries_desc IN VARCHAR2,
p_start_time IN DATE,
p_end_time IN DATE,
p_timezone IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'GMT',
p_trim IN NUMBER DEFAULT false_num,
p_inclusive IN NUMBER DEFAULT NULL,
p_versiondate IN DATE DEFAULT NULL,
p_max_version IN NUMBER DEFAULT true_num
<cfstoredproc datasource="CWMS"
procedure="cwms.cwms_ts.retrieve_ts"
returncode="no">
<cfprocparam type="INOUT" variable="p_units"
value="#unit#" <!---p_units--->
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value="MVS"
<!---p_officeid--->
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value=#id.cwms_ts_id#
<!---p_timeseries_desc--->
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value="#sd#"
<!---p_start_time--->
cfsqltype="cf_sql_timestamp">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value="#ed#"
<!---p_end_time--->
cfsqltype="cf_sql_timestamp">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value="#tz#"
<!---p_timezone--->
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value="0" <!---p_trim--->
cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value=""
<!---p_inclusive--->
null = "yes"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_numeric">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value=""
<!---p_versiondate--->
null="yes"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_timestamp">
<cfprocparam type="IN" value="1"
<!---p_max_version--->
cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer">
<cfprocresult name="ts_dat">
<!---sys_refcursor--->
</cfstoredproc>
If I truly am short a parameter, How do you specify the INOUT
sys_refcursor?