XML DB Native Webservice - Procedure returning user defined TYPE

Question

Hi folks,
     I’ve used XML DB Native Webservice feature to expose some PLSQL Procedures and Functions as webservices.
     The feature works great, however I found a situation where XML DB is not able to generate the WSDL document.
     Here is an example of a procedure signature:
     Procedure LISTA_ESTADO (
p_NomeEstado OUT NomeEstadoTB,
p_IdEstado OUT IdentifUnico,
vr_CodRetorno OUT CodRetorno,
batch_size IN INT,
out_batch_size IN OUT INT,
status OUT INT)     
     In this case, when I try to get the WSDL document, I receive the error message below.
     <soap:Envelope>
<soap:Body>
<soap:Fault>
<faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>
<faultstring>Error processing input</faultstring>
<detail>
<OracleErrors></OracleErrors>
</detail>
</soap:Fault>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
     The problem seems to be related with the first three OUT parameters, that are based on an user created TYPE.
In this example, the TYPES are defined as:
     TYPE NomeEstadoTB IS TABLE OF CHAR(25)
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
TYPE IdentifUnico IS TABLE OF NUMBER(10)
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
TYPE CodRetorno IS TABLE OF CHAR(10)
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
     I’d like to know if XML DB can publish procedures like that as a webservice and if affirmative, how to do that?
Thanks In Advance,
Luis

Answer 1

I am very new to this. New to Oracle, PL/SQL, OO programming or testing?
set serveroutput on
declare
  tst_obj ctype;
begin
  tst_obj := pkg.proc(11);
  dbms_output.put_line('id='||tst_obj.id||'::code='||tst_obj.code||'::usage='||tst_obj.usage);
end;
/Generally I disapprove of the use of DBMS_OUTPUT (for just about anything) but it is sufficient to demonstrate the basic principle.
Really you should start using proper testing practices, ideally with an automated test harness like QUTE.
Cheers, APC
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