Question

I’ve been struggling for a while with this, im following this guide:

This are the steps I have taken so far:

1. Create new console project
2. Add new EntityModel

3. Import “Test” Stored Procedure into Entity Model, sp looks like this:

   CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE SCHEMA.TEST(P_SALIDA OUT NUMBER,
                               P_CURSOR1 OUT sys_refcursor,
                               P_CURSOR2 OUT sys_refcursor) IS
   BEGIN
      P_SALIDA := 15;
      OPEN P_CURSOR1 FOR
      SELECT 125.72 "DECIMAL", 150 "INTEGER", 'JUST PASSING BY' "TEXT" FROM DUAL;
   
      OPEN P_CURSOR2 FOR
      SELECT 'JUST SOME TEXT' "TEXT" FROM DUAL;
   
   END TEST;
   /
   

4. Add this to app.config:

<add name="SCHEMA.TEST.RefCursor.P_CURSOR1" value="implicitRefCursor bindinfo='mode=Output'" />  
<add name="SCHEMA.TEST.RefCursorMetaData.P_CURSOR1.Column.0" value="implicitRefCursor metadata='ColumnName=DECIMAL;NATIVEDATATYPE=Number;ProviderType=Decimal'" />  
<add name="SCHEMA.TEST.RefCursorMetaData.P_CURSOR1.Column.1" value="implicitRefCursor metadata='ColumnName=INTEGER;NATIVEDATATYPE=Number;ProviderType=Int32'" />  
<add name="SCHEMA.TEST.RefCursorMetaData.P_CURSOR1.Column.2" value="implicitRefCursor metadata='ColumnName=TEXT;NATIVEDATATYPE=Varchar2;ProviderType=Varchar2'" />  

<add name="SCHEMA.TEST.RefCursor.P_CURSOR2" value="implicitRefCursor bindinfo='mode=Output'" />
<add name="SCHEMA.TEST.RefCursorMetaData.P_CURSOR2.Column.0" value="implicitRefCursor metadata='ColumnName=TEXT;NATIVEDATATYPE=Varchar2;ProviderType=Varchar2'" />

Then I try to import function from the Entity Model I created before but when I click obtain column information after selecting complex type nothing happens, it doesn’t show the cursor like the obe tutorial.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

EDIT:

So I tried again today, and it’s behaving differently this time. Now when I click the Obtain Column Information button in the import function dialog, the dialog just closes and nothing else happens.

Answer 1

So, this may sound embarrassing, but it was actually a problem with Visual Studio, I closed the IDE and opened it again, and it started working.

Still I don’t recommend this method to anyone, its too much work just to import a function.