PL/SQL print out ref cursor returned by a stored procedure

Question

How can I fetch from a ref cursor that is returned from a stored procedure (OUT variable) and print the resulting rows to STDOUT in SQL*PLUS?

ORACLE stored procedure

Answer 1

You can use a bind variable at the SQLPlus level to do this. Of course you have little control over the formatting of the output.

VAR x REFCURSOR;
EXEC GetGrantListByPI(args, :x);
PRINT x;

Answer 2

If you want to print all the columns in your select clause you can go with the autoprint command.

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sps_detail_dtest(v_refcur OUT sys_refcursor)
AS
BEGIN
  OPEN v_refcur FOR 'select * from dummy_table';
END;

SET autoprint on;

--calling the procedure
VAR vcur refcursor;
DECLARE 
BEGIN
  sps_detail_dtest(vrefcur=>:vcur);
END;

Hope this gives you an alternate solution

Answer 3

Note: This code is untested

Define a record for your refCursor return type, call it rec. For example:

TYPE MyRec IS RECORD (col1 VARCHAR2(10), col2 VARCHAR2(20), ...);  --define the record
rec MyRec;        -- instantiate the record

Once you have the refcursor returned from your procedure, you can add the following code where your comments are now:

LOOP
  FETCH refCursor INTO rec;
  EXIT WHEN refCursor%NOTFOUND;
  dbms_output.put_line(rec.col1||','||rec.col2||','||...);
END LOOP;