Thanks, I'll look into that. In the meantime, I managed to just use the
cursor from cx_Oracle (as in the example on Oracle site) and the code looks
slightly more elegant.
However, both "my" and yours solution suffer from the same defect imho --
that the ORM machinery of Django is unusable. We are back to manual mapping
of rows onto objects... Or -- am I mistaken?
Tim Sawyer-6 wrote:
>
>> Friends,
>>
>> I'm in need of an implementation which calls for using bind variables (in
>> Oracle sense, not generic) in my SQL in a Django application.
>>
>> Any experience with that, anyone?
>
> Here's an example using bind variables to return output values from a
> PL/SQL block.
>
> >>> import cx_Oracle
> >>> from django.db import connection
> >>> cursor = connection.cursor()
> >>> lOutput = cursor.var(cx_Oracle.STRING)
> >>> cursor.execute("BEGIN %s := 'N'; END; ", [lOutput])
> >>> print lOutput
> <cx_Oracle.STRING with value None>
> >>> print lOutput.getvalue()
> None
> >>>
>
> There was a bug in Django that prevented this working (hence the None in
> the code above) - it's fixed in Django 1.2. The full thread for this is
> at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/django-users@googlegroups.com/msg100490.html
>
> Hope that will help send you in the right direction.
>
> Tim.
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