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Table 18-8 describes the miscellaneous object functions that are described in this section.
Table 18-8 Miscellaneous Object Functions
Function | Purpose |
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Copy one instance to another |
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Get an object attribute |
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Get |
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Return reference to a given object |
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Get a reference to a TDO of an instance |
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Lock a persistent object |
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Lock a persistent object but do not wait for the lock |
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Create a new instance |
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Set an object attribute |
Copies a source instance to a destination.
sword OCIObjectCopy ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, const OCISvcCtx *svc, void *source, void *null_source, void *target, void *null_target, OCIType *tdo, OCIDuration duration, ub1 option );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. See the descriptions of OCIEnvCreate(), OCIEnvNlsCreate(), and OCIInitialize() (deprecated) for more information.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
An OCI service context handle, specifying the service context on which the copy operation is occurring.
A pointer to the source instance; if it is an object, it must be pinned.
See Also:
"OCIObjectPin()"Pointer to the NULL
structure of the source object.
A pointer to the target instance; if it is an object, it must be pinned.
A pointer to the NULL
structure of the target object.
The TDO for both the source and the target. Can be retrieved with OCIDescribeAny()
.
Allocation duration of the target memory.
This parameter is currently unused. Pass as zero or OCI_DEFAULT
.
This function copies the contents of the source
instance to the target
instance. This function performs a deep copy such that all of the following information is copied:
All the top-level attributes (see the exceptions later)
All secondary memory (of the source) reachable from the top-level attributes
The NULL
structure of the instance
Memory is allocated with the duration specified in the duration
parameter.
Certain data items are not copied:
If the option OCI_OBJECTCOPY_NOREF
is specified in the option
parameter, then all references in the source are not copied. Instead, the references in the target are set to NULL
.
If the attribute is an internal LOB, then only the LOB locator from the source object is copied. A copy of the LOB data is not made until OCIObjectFlush() is called. Before the target object is flushed, both the source and the target locators refer to the same LOB value.
The target or the containing instance of the target must have been created. This can be done with OCIObjectNew() or OCIObjectPin() depending on whether the target object exists.
The source
and target
instances must be of the same type. If the source and target are located in different databases, then the same type must exist in both databases.
Retrieves an object attribute.
sword OCIObjectGetAttr ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, void *instance, void *null_struct, struct OCIType *tdo, const OraText **names, const ub4 *lengths, const ub4 name_count, const ub4 *indexes, const ub4 index_count, OCIInd *attr_null_status, void **attr_null_struct, void **attr_value, struct OCIType **attr_tdo );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. See the descriptions of OCIEnvCreate(), OCIEnvNlsCreate(), and OCIInitialize() (deprecated) for more information.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
Pointer to an object.
The NULL
structure of the object or array.
Pointer to the type descriptor object (TDO).
Array of attribute names. This is used to specify the names of the attributes in the path expression.
Array of lengths of attribute names, in bytes.
Number of elements in the array names
.
Not currently supported. Pass as (ub4 *)0
.
Not currently supported. Pass as (ub4)0
.
The NULL
status of the attribute if the type of attribute is primitive.
This parameter is filled only for object and opaque attributes, not for collections. For collections (pass OCICollGetElem
), attr_null_struct
is NULL
. For collections, this parameter indicates if the entire collection is NULL
or not.
Pointer to the attribute value.
Pointer to the TDO of the attribute.
This function gets a value from an object or from an array. If the parameter instance
points to an object, then the path expression specifies the location of the attribute in the object. It is assumed that the object is pinned and that the value returned is valid until the object is unpinned.
If both attr_null_status
and attr_null_struct
are NULL
, no NULL
information is returned.
Retrieves the NULL
indicator structure of a standalone instance.
sword OCIObjectGetInd ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, void *instance, void **null_struct );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. See the descriptions of OCIEnvCreate(), OCIEnvNlsCreate(), and OCIInitialize() (deprecated) for more information.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
A pointer to the instance whose NULL
structure is being retrieved. The instance must be standalone. If instance
is an object, it must already be pinned.
The NULL
indicator structure for the instance.
See Also:
"NULL Indicator Structure" for a discussion of the NULL indicator structure and examples of its useNone.
Returns a reference to a given persistent object.
sword OCIObjectGetObjectRef ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, void *object, OCIRef *object_ref );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. See the descriptions of OCIEnvCreate(), OCIEnvNlsCreate(), and OCIInitialize() (deprecated) for more information.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
Pointer to a persistent object. It must already be pinned.
A reference to the object specified in object
. The reference must already be allocated. This can be accomplished with OCIObjectNew()
.
This function returns a reference to the given persistent object, when given a pointer to the object. Passing a value (rather than an object) to this function causes an error.
See Also:
"Object Meta-Attributes"Returns a reference to the type descriptor object (TDO) of a standalone instance.
sword OCIObjectGetTypeRef ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, void *instance, OCIRef *type_ref );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. See the descriptions of OCIEnvCreate(), OCIEnvNlsCreate(), and OCIInitialize() (deprecated) for more information.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
A pointer to the standalone instance. It must be standalone, and if it is an object, it must already be pinned.
A reference to the type of the object. The reference must already be allocated. This can be accomplished with OCIObjectNew().
None.
Locks a persistent object at the server.
sword OCIObjectLock ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, void *object );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. See the descriptions of OCIEnvCreate(), OCIEnvNlsCreate(), and OCIInitialize() (deprecated) for more information.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
A pointer to the persistent object being locked. It must already be pinned.
This function returns an error for transient objects and values. It also returns an error if the object does not exist.
See Also:
"Locking Objects for Update"OCIObjectPin(), OCIObjectIsLocked(), OCIObjectGetProperty(), OCIObjectLockNoWait()
Locks a persistent object at the server but does not wait for the lock. Returns an error if the lock is unavailable.
sword OCIObjectLockNoWait ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, void *object );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. See the descriptions of OCIEnvCreate(), OCIEnvNlsCreate(), and OCIInitialize() (deprecated) for more information.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
A pointer to the persistent object being locked. It must already be pinned.
This function locks a persistent object at the server. However, unlike OCIObjectLock(), this function does not wait if another user holds the lock on the object and an error is returned if the object is currently locked by another user. This function also returns an error for transient objects and values, or objects that do not exist.
The lock of an object is released at the end of a transaction.
See Also:
"Locking Objects for Update"OCIObjectLockNoWait()
returns the following values:
OCI_INVALID_HANDLE
, if the environment handle or error handle is NULL
OCI_SUCCESS
, if the operation succeeds
OCI_ERROR
, if the operation fails
OCIObjectPin(), OCIObjectIsLocked(), OCIObjectGetProperty(), OCIObjectLock()
Creates a standalone instance.
sword OCIObjectNew ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, const OCISvcCtx *svc, OCITypeCode typecode, OCIType *tdo, void *table, OCIDuration duration, boolean value, void **instance );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. The handle can be initialized in UTF-16 (Unicode) mode. See the description of OCIEnvNlsCreate()
.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
OCI service handle.
The typecode of the type of the instance.
See Also:
"Typecodes"Pointer to the type descriptor object. The TDO describes the type of the instance that is to be created. See OCITypeByName()
for obtaining a TDO. The TDO is required for creating a named type, such as an object or a collection.
Pointer to a table object that specifies a table in the server. This
parameter can be set to NULL
if no table is given. See the following description to learn how the table object and the TDO are used together to determine the kind of instances (persistent, transient, value) to be created. Also see OCIObjectPinTable()
for retrieving a table object.
This is an overloaded parameter. The use of this parameter is based on the kind of the instance that is to be created. See Table 18-9 for more information.
For a persistent object type of instance, this parameter specifies the pin duration.
For a transient object type of instance, this parameter specifies the allocation duration and pin duration.
For a value type of instance, this parameter specifies the allocation duration.
Specifies whether the created object is a value. If TRUE
, then a value is created. Otherwise, a referenceable object is created. If the instance is not an object, then this parameter is ignored.
Address of the newly created instance. The instance can be a character string in UTF-16 (Unicode) if the environment handle has the appropriate setting and the object is OCIString
.
This function creates a new instance of the type specified by the typecode or the TDO. It can create an OCIString object with a Unicode buffer if the typecode indicates the object to be created is OCIString
.
See Also:
"Typecodes"Table 18-9 shows that based on the parameters typecode
(or tdo
), value
, and table
, different instances are created.
Type of the Instance | Table != NULL | Table == NULL |
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object type (value= |
value |
value |
object type (value= |
persistent object |
transient object |
built-in type |
value |
value |
collection type |
value |
value |
This function allocates the top-level memory chunk of an instance. The attributes in the top-level memory are initialized, which means that an attribute of VARCHAR2
is initialized to an OCIString
of 0 length. If the instance is an object, the object is marked existent but is atomically NULL
.
See Also:
"Create Objects Based on Object Views and Object Tables with Primary-Key-Based OIDs" for information about creating new objects based on object views or user-created OIDsThe object is marked dirty and existent. The allocation duration for the object is session. The object is pinned, and the pin duration is specified by the given parameter duration
. Creating a persistent object does not cause any entries to be made into a database table until the object is flushed to the server.
The object is pinned. The allocation duration and the pin duration are specified by the given parameter duration
.
The allocation duration is specified by the given parameter duration
.
Attribute Values of New Objects
By default, all attributes of a newly created object have NULL
values. After initializing attribute data, the user must change the corresponding NULL
status of each attribute to non-NULL
.
It is possible to have attributes set to non-NULL
values when an object is created. This is accomplished by setting the OCI_ATTR_OBJECT_NEWNOTNULL
attribute of the environment handle to TRUE
using OCIAttrSet()
. This mode can later be turned off by setting the attribute to FALSE
. If OCI_ATTR_OBJECT_NEWNOTNULL
is set to TRUE
, then OCIObjectNew()
creates a non-NULL
object.
See Also:
"Attribute Values of New Objects"If the object contains an internal LOB attribute, the LOB is set to empty. The object must be marked as dirty and flushed (to insert the object into the table) and repinned before the user can start writing data into the LOB. When pinning the object after creating it, you must use the OCI_PIN_LATEST
pin option to retrieve the newly updated LOB locator from the server.
If the object contains an external LOB attribute (FILE), the FILE locator is allocated but not initialized. The user must call OCILobFileSetName() to initialize the FILE attribute before flushing the object to the database. It is an error to perform an INSERT
or UPDATE
operation on a FILE without first indicating a directory object and file name. Once the file name is set, the user can start reading from the FILE.
Note:
Oracle Database supports only binary FILEs (BFILEs
).OCIObjectPinTable(), OCIObjectFree()
Sets an object attribute.
sword OCIObjectSetAttr ( OCIEnv *env, OCIError *err, void *instance, void *null_struct, struct OCIType *tdo, const OraText **names, const ub4 *lengths, const ub4 name_count, const ub4 *indexes, const ub4 index_count, const OCIInd *attr_null_status, const void *attr_null_struct, const void *attr_value );
The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode. See the descriptions of OCIEnvCreate(), OCIEnvNlsCreate(), and OCIInitialize() (deprecated) for more information.
The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err
, and this function returns OCI_ERROR
. Obtain diagnostic information by calling OCIErrorGet().
Pointer to an object instance.
The NULL
structure of the object instance or array.
Pointer to the TDO.
Array of attribute names. This is used to specify the names of the attributes in the path expression.
Array of lengths of attribute names, in bytes.
Number of elements in the array names
.
Not currently supported. Pass as (ub4 *)0
.
Not currently supported. Pass as (ub4)0
.
The NULL
status of the attribute if the type of attribute is primitive.
The NULL
structure of an object or collection attribute.
Pointer to the attribute value.
This function sets the attribute of the given object with the given value. The position of the attribute is specified as a path expression, which is an array of names and an array of indexes.
For the path expression stanford.cs.stu[5].addr, the arrays appear as:
names = {"stanford", "cs", "stu", "addr"}
lengths = {8, 2, 3, 4}
indexes = {5}