This chapter presents the cartridge functions.
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For code examples, see the demonstration programs included with your Oracle installation. For additional information, refer to Appendix B, "OCI Demonstration Programs".This chapter contains these topics:
This chapter first describes the OCI external procedure functions. These functions enable users of external procedures to raise errors, allocate some memory, and get OCI context information.
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For more information about using these functions in external procedures, see the chapter on external procedures in Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - FundamentalsThen the cartridge services functions are described.
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For more information about using these functions, see Oracle Database Data Cartridge Developer's GuideA description of each of the function's parameters. This includes the parameter's mode. The mode of a parameter has three possible values, as described next:
More detailed information about the function (if available). This may include restrictions on the use of the function, or other information that might be useful when using the function in an application.
A list of related function calls. For cartridge services, see all the other functions in the group being documented.
Success and error return codes are defined for certain external procedure interface functions. If a particular interface function returns OCIEXTPROC_SUCCESS or OCIEXTPROC_ERROR, then applications must use these macros to check for return values.
OCIEXTPROC_SUCCESS - External Procedure Success Return Code
OCIEXTPROC_ERROR - External Procedure Failure Return Code
The C callable interface to PL/SQL external procedures requires the with_context
parameter to be passed. The type of this structure is OCIExtProcContext
, which is opaque to the user.
The user can declare the with_context
parameter in the application as
OCIExtProcContext *with_context;