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Oracle, object table & nested tables


Say I have 2 objects MY_OBJ, MY_NESTED_TABLE_OBJ

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE MY_NESTED_TABLE_OBJ IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(100);

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE MY_OBJ AS OBJECT (
    simple_atribute NUMBER(6),
    table_attribute MY_NESTED_TABLE_OBJ,
    MEMBER PROCEDURE doStuff(text VARCHAR2)
) NOT FINAL INSTANTIABLE;

MY_OBJ's table

CREATE TABLE TBL_MY_OBJ OF MY_OBJ
(  CONSTRAINT PK_simple_atribute PRIMARY KEY(simple_atribute))
NESTED TABLE table_attribute STORE AS attribute_nst;

How do I insert a VARCHAR2(100) into the nested table belonging to table_attribute?? What is the sintax??

Doing a simple insert like: INSERT INTO attribute_nst VALUES ('some text'); gives the error

cannot reference nested table column's storage table

What i want is to do insert from within PROCEDURE doStuff(text VARCHAR2), i've tried:

INSERT INTO SELF.attribute_nst VALUES (text);
INSERT INTO attribute_nst VALUES (text);
INSERT INTO table_attribute VALUES (text);

...and other combination and no nothing, so please help!


Solution

  • SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE BODY MY_OBJ AS
      2    member procedure doStuff(text varchar2) is
      3    begin
      4      table_attribute.extend(1);
      5      table_attribute(table_attribute.count) := text;
      6    end;
      7  end;
      8  /
    
    Type body created.
    
    SQL> declare
      2     l_my_obj My_Obj := My_Obj(1,MY_NESTED_TABLE_OBJ());
      3  begin
      4    l_my_obj.doStuff('abc');
      5    l_my_obj.doStuff('def');
      6
      7    insert into tbl_my_obj values (l_my_obj);
      8  end;
      9  /
    
    PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
    
    SQL> select * from tbl_my_obj;
    
    SIMPLE_ATRIBUTE
    ---------------
    TABLE_ATTRIBUTE
    ------------------------------------------------------------
                  1
    MY_NESTED_TABLE_OBJ('abc', 'def')