OCIRefHexSize()

Purpose

Returns the size of the hex representation of a REF.

Syntax

ub4 OCIRefHexSize ( OCIEnv            *env,
                    CONST OCIRef      *ref );

Parameters

env (IN/OUT)

The OCI environment handle initialized in object mode.

See Also: OCIEnvCreate() and OCIInitialize()

ref (IN)

REF whose size in hexadecimal representation in bytes is returned.

Returns

The size of the hexadecimal representation of the REF.

Comments

Returns the size of the buffer in bytes required for the hexadecimal representation of the ref. A buffer of at least this size must be passed to the ref-to-hex (OCIRefToHex()) conversion function.

Related Functions

OCIErrorGet(), OCIRefFromHex()