Using non public callable API

Question

Hello All,
I had a post before about using work incident API but nobody responded to me. Here is the link:
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=10458788#10458788
Any way, I found out how should I find the incident reference . Actually, the incident reference is getting generated from the system and how the system does generate that is, it calls a non public callable api. Now for my procedure I want to try to call that non public api, and here is just the test code but I get this error:
Error(5,2): PLS-00221: 'GET_OSHA_CASE_NUMBER' is not a procedure or is undefined
my code is:
create or replace
PROCEDURE INCIDENT_REFERENCE
AUTHID CURRENT_USER AS
begin
APPS_APPLMGR.per_inc_bus.get_osha_case_number (to_date('01-OCT-03 22:39:04'), 0);
end;
Could you please advise me how I can call this api? Or is there any code that I need to use before calling it.
Thanks,

Answer 1

Haisa.M wrote:
Error(5,2): PLS-00221: 'GET_OSHA_CASE_NUMBER' is not a procedure or is undefinedThis means one of 2 things:
a) you are calling a function as a procedure
b) you are calling a procedure that does not exist
From the code unit's name, it would seem that this is a function - not a procedure. The get in the name implies a getter code unit (as oppose to a setter). Getters are typically functions.
E.g.:
create or replace procedure FooProc authid current user is
caseNumber  number;
begin
  caseNumber := APPS_APPLMGR.per_inc_bus.get_osha_case_number ( sysdate, 0 );
  .. do something with number..
end;