Bug: code completion on members does not work for record constants

[Claus Pedersen]

I have a record. I can use code completion for this, both for the variable name and its members.

I also have the same record type defined as a constant. I can still use code completion for the name, but not for its members.

Why?

 

[Marco Kalter]

Can you provide an example?

 

[Claus Pedersen]

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE tester IS

  TYPE my_rec_type IS RECORD (
    a NUMBER,
    b NUMBER);

  k_my_rec CONSTANT my_rec_type DEFAULT NULL;

  v_my_rec          my_rec_type;

BEGIN
  v_my_rec.               -- use code completion here, works OK
  v_my_rec.a := k_my_rec. -- use code completion here, does not work
END;

If you use code completion on the code "v_my_rec.", it works OK (columns a and b are shown).

IF you use code completion on the code "k_my_rec.", it does not work (nothing is shown).

 

[Marco Kalter]

Thanks. I have added this to the list of enhancement requests.

 

[Claus Pedersen]

Thanks,

I assume that "list of enhancement requests" equals "the middle of the prioritised bug list"?

 

[Claus Pedersen]

Could this please be corrected in version 8? We use constants quite a lot in our code, and it is an unnecessary and annoying bug.

 

[Claus Pedersen]

Will this bug be corrected before version 10?

 

[Marco Kalter]

It's not really a bug, but we should be able to get this working for version 10.

 

[Claus Pedersen]

It's not really a bug

OK, so let's call it a feature. A functionality that works for a variable, but not for a constant of the same data type is surely to be a candidate for a 'feature'