Oracle C++ Call Interface Programmer's Guide

OTT Utility Reference
The Pro*C/C++ application that uses the OTT-generated structures uses the types
sam.Company, joe.Dept, and Person. Person without a schema name refers to
the Person type in the schema to which the application is connected.
If the OTT utility and the application both connect to schema joe, then the
application uses the same type (joe.Person) that the OTT utility uses. If the OTT
utility connects to schema joe but the application connects to schema mary, then
the application uses the type mary.Person. This behavior is appropriate only if
the same CREATE TYPE Person statement has been executed in schema joe and
schema mary.
On the other hand, the application uses type joe.Dept regardless of which schema
the application is connected to. If this is the behavior you want, then be sure to
include schema names with your type names in the INTYPE file.
In some cases, the OTT utility translates a type that the user did not explicitly name.
For example, consider the following SQL declarations:
CREATE TYPE Address AS OBJECT
(
street VARCHAR2(40),
city VARCHAR(30),
state CHAR(2),
zip_code CHAR(10)
);
CREATE TYPE Person AS OBJECT
(
name CHAR(20),
age NUMBER,
addr ADDRESS
);
Suppose that the OTT utility connects to schema joe, SCHEMA_NAMES=FROM_
INTYPE is specified, and the user’s INTYPE files include either
TYPE Person
or
TYPE joe.Person
The INTYPE file does not mention the type joe.Address, which is used as a
nested object type in type joe.Person.
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