Piet de Visser allegedly said,on my timestamp of 8/06/2004 7:13 PM:
Question: - Is there a way to refer to ref-cursors inside a package, and to have a list if ref-cursors closed conditionally by using : IF refcur1%ISOPEN THEN CLOSE refcur1 ; END IF; ?
More precisely, we want the package to keep track of all cursors it has opened (we can keep a list, no problem
if that requires some extra code). We then want the same
procedure or another procedure to go in, read the list of open cursors, an close any that are still open.
Is this feasible ? Suggestions anyone ?
Well, there are probably a zillion solutions. The one I have used quite successfully is as follows:
1- in the package declaration, declare a type of REF CURSOR. Like this: type zot_the_cursor is REF CURSOR; and declare all your functions to return this type. As in: function blah (par1 in number) return zot_the_cursor; 2- In the package body, for every function start it with: IF zot_the_cursor%ISOPEN then close zot_the_cursor; END IF; just like you suggested.
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