Default values for parameters when obtaining procedure metadata

[Kevat]

We have a procedure which accepts multiple parameters. However, no initial values for the parameters are specified. When dotConnect maps this procedure, it returns "void" instead of creating a class for the expected result.

I am assuming that dotConnect calls this procedure with some default values for each parameter. The default values passed in cause the procedure to throw an error and does not return sys_refcursor as it should. This is why it is mapped as "void" instead of a class representing the results.

My questions:

1. What are the default parameter values that dotConnect uses to get the metadata for a procedure?
2. How can I change the values used for the parameters when getting the metadata for a procedure?

- Kevat

[Shalex]

1. What are the default parameter values that dotConnect uses to get the metadata for a procedure?

Entity Developer uses DB NULL values of parameters when tries to get the metadata for a procedure.

2. How can I change the values used for the parameters when getting the metadata for a procedure?

The current implementation of Entity Developer doesn't allow to set values of parameters for getting metadata. We will notify you when the corresponding functionality is implemented.

There are the following temporary workarounds:
1) create the complex type in the model manually
2) if you have an access to the database, create a temporary duplicated stored procedure which doesn't require values for input parameters, add it to your model to generate the needed complex type, then assign this complex type to your original stored procedure
3) try executing your original stored procedure via Model Explorer > right click Stored Procedures > Add > New Procedure for getting metadata

[Shalex]

The possibility to set values of stored procedure parameters for getting metadata to generate automatically the corresponding complex type is implemented in the newest (9.1.55) build of dotConnect for Oracle: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33944.

[Kevat]

Thank you! That was extremely helpful.