Calling SP with sys_refcursor as out parameter inside another procedure - oracle

Question

I have an SP
create or replace PROCEDURE ALTERNATE_NAME_LOOKUP
( P_NAME IN VARCHAR2,
P_TYPE IN VARCHAR2, retCursor OUT SYS_REFCURSOR
)
I didn't paste the rest of its body; The above procedure works fine on its own (with the body of course)
Now I want to call it from another stored procedure, and I want to traverse over the refcursor.
What I am doing is declaring an_last_cur SYS_REFCURSOR; and calling ALTERNATE_NAME_LOOKUP procedure as ALTERNATE_NAME_LOOKUP(p_req.LASTNAMEEXP,c_LAST, an_last_cur); It compiles.
but when I add following block -
ALTERNATE_NAME_LOOKUP('Roman Reigns','LAST',an_last_cur);
For alt in an_last_cur
Loop
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('ok');
end loop;
It gives compilation error -
PLS-00221: 'AN_LAST_CUR' is not a procedure or is undefined
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

create or replace procedure alternate_name_lookup
( p_name in varchar2, p_type in varchar2, retcursor out sys_refcursor )
as
begin
open retcursor for select * from user_objects ;
end;
set serveroutput on
declare
an_last_cur sys_refcursor;
type my_objects is table of user_objects%rowtype;
objects my_objects;
begin
alternate_name_lookup('Roman Reigns','LAST',an_last_cur);
fetch an_last_cur bulk collect into objects;
dbms_output.put_line(objects.count);
for indx in 1 .. objects.count
loop
dbms_output.put_line(objects(indx).object_name);
end loop;
close an_last_cur;
end;

Answer 2

Try this one. Hope this helps. I dont have workspace with me so pardon
syntax erro r if any.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE test_ref_prc
( p_ref_out OUT sys_refcursor)
AS
BEGIN
OPEN p_ref_out FOR
SELECT LEVEL FROM DUAL CONNECT BY LEVEL < 10;
END;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE test_ref2
AS
refc sys_refcursor;
num_ntt NUMBER_NTT;
BEGIN
test_ref_prc(refc);
FETCH refc BULK COLLECT INTO num_ntt;
FOR I IN num_ntt.FIRST..num_ntt.LAST LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(num_ntt(i));
END LOOP;
END;
exec test_ref2;