Testing a SP that returns a CURSOR

Question

I'm using Oracle 11 and trying to use SQL Developer. However, I cannot seem to get the DEBUG to work to test calling a SP that returns a Cursor.
I wrote a small test program to test, but it won't compile and I'm not sure why not. Can you assist?
the first code fragment is a package I have that has a CURTYPE defined. It is used throughout my application when declaring a cursor:
create or replace
PACKAGE          "SP_STATE"
Is
    type     curtype is ref cursor;
...now, here is the first part of the SP that I want to test. note that I defined PriceCur as using the package CURTYPE.
create or replace
PROCEDURE          "USP_GETL_ACCOUNT_PRICES" (
  AcctNo          in     marketer_account.mka_last_full_css_acct_no%type,
  MktrNo          in     marketer_account.mka_mktr_no%type,
  Status                     in              varchar2 default null,     
  PriceCur          out            sp_state.curtype
as
begin
Open Pricecur For
Select
...Now here is my test procedure:
Declare
   Price_Cur  Sp_State.Curtype;
   price_rec  price_cur%rowtype;
Begin
   Usp_Getl_Account_Prices('302189139000026', 11813,'A', price_cur);
   Open Price_Cur;
   Loop
      Fetch Price_Cur Into Price_Rec;
      Exit When Price_Cur%Notfound;
      dbms_output.put_line(price_cur%rowcount || ') ' || price_rec.apr_account_price_id);
   End Loop;
   close price_cur;
end;It won't compile. All I'm trying to do here is call the SP - pass in the 3 inbound parameters and get back a cursor,
then I want to loop through the cursor and list out certain fields....
Where am I going wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sean

Answer 1

userLynx wrote:
I had to change my SP to return 4 or 5 columns (before it was returning about 12) just so that I can see if the procedure works.
I ended up doing this:
set serveroutput on;
declare
V_Rc Sys_Refcursor;
priceID integer;
AcctId number;
Mktrno Number;
Accountnumber Varchar2(15);
Errcd Number;
descrip varchar2(150);
Begin
USP_GETL_ACCOUNT_PRICES1('313747128500038', 11536, 'R', v_rc);
Loop
fetch v_rc into priceID, acctId, MktrNo, accountNumber, errcd, descrip;
Exit When V_Rc%Notfound;
dbms_output.put_line(priceID || ',' || acctId || ','  || MktrNo || ',' || accountNumber || ',' || Errcd || ',' || descrip);
end loop;
end;I was able to get data back.
It just seems odd that I cannot use the cursor directly or FETCH into a RECORD (cur%rowType)You probably can use a record that looks something like (untested)
  type rec_type is record(
   priceID integer,
   AcctId number,
   Mktrno Number,
   Accountnumber Varchar2(15),
   Errcd Number,
   descrip varchar2(150),
  rec rec_type;
  fetch ... into rec;Notice I made the record look exactly like the list of variables you defined and selected into. If not, you still have use of the variables