Calling an Oracle PL/SQL procedure in Java using a CallableStatement with a boolean IN parameter gives an PLS-00306 oracle error:

Question

I have a pl/sql procedure on an Oracle 11g that has the following parameters:

PROCEDURE validate_product
   ( product_id_in IN varchar2 , 
     username_in in va         


        

Answer 1

There is a simple workaround for that restriction, which does not require a wrapper procedure, simply wrap the boolean parameter in PL/SQL in a CASE statement and use an Integer for binding:

stmt = connection.prepareCall("begin" 
        +"  booleanFunc(par_bool => (CASE ? WHEN 1 THEN TRUE ELSE FALSE END)); "
        +"end;"
       );

// now bind integer, 1 = true, 0 = false
stmt.setInt(1, 0); // example for false

You may wrap the Integer during bind the other way around, if your method uses boolean, for example:

// now bind integer, 1 = true, 0 = false
stmt.setInt(1, myBool ? 1 : 0); 

Answer 2

I was amazed when we ran into this, but the Oracle JDBC Driver doesn't support passing booleans into Stored Procedures.... Ya, I'm not making that up :)

Boolean Parameters in PL/SQL Stored Procedures

The JDBC drivers do not support the passing of BOOLEAN parameters to PL/SQL stored procedures. If a PL/SQL procedure contains BOOLEAN values, you can work around the restriction by wrapping the PL/SQL procedure with a second PL/SQL procedure that accepts the argument as an INT and passes it to the first stored procedure. When the second procedure is called, the server performs the conversion from INT to BOOLEAN.

Answer 3

I suspect the out statements might need modification to the following (since the type of the out parameters is varchar2 in the procedure):-

cstmt.registerOutParameter(6, Types.VARCHAR); 
cstmt.registerOutParameter(7, Types.VARCHAR); 

However, if that does not work, then try modifying the prepareCall statement to the following also :-

cstmt = getConnection().prepareCall("{call " + DBUtil.SCHEMANAME + ".PRODUCT_UTILITIES.validate_product(?,?,?,?,?,?,?)}");

Answer 4

Starting with Oracle 12.2 there is a JDBC Support for Binding PLSQL_BOOLEAN

I'll demonstrate is on a simple procedure with INand OUT BOOLEAN parameters

create or replace PROCEDURE proc_C (flag_in BOOLEAN, flag_out OUT BOOLEAN) as
begin
  flag_out := flag_in;
end;
/

Unfortunately it is not possible to use directly setBoolean to bind the first parameter.

The driver Version 19.3.0.0.0 returns in this case PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to 'PROC_C'

The workaround is simple using setObject(1,true,oracle.jdbc.OracleTypes.PLSQL_BOOLEAN)

The whole example

stmt = con.prepareCall("{ call proc_C(?,?)}") 
stmt.setObject(1,false,oracle.jdbc.OracleTypes.PLSQL_BOOLEAN)
stmt.registerOutParameter(2, oracle.jdbc.OracleTypes.PLSQL_BOOLEAN) 
stmt.execute()
flag = stmt.getBoolean(2)

Answer 5

I think here is the issue

cstmt.registerOutParameter(6, Types.CHAR); 
cstmt.registerOutParameter(7, Types.CHAR); 

you called from java as above, But you declared in procedure out parameter as varchar2,that means there is a mismatch of datatype.

Try this code,

cstmt.registerOutParameter(6, Types.VARCHAR); 
cstmt.registerOutParameter(7, Types.VARCHAR); 

I hope this will work..