Types in Packages and the Code Assistant

[WCLucas42]

We have all of our exceptions and types defined in one Package, BMQR_Types. When we reference a type from the Types package we do not get the the Code Assitant popping up with the information about the type the same way you would if you declared the type from the table itself.

Is there anyway to get the code asssistant to display the information for the types in the type package? Is this a lost cause?
We have currently be declaring it as a rowtye and then when done changing it to the type from the types package, but ideally we could just declare the type from the package and still get the information regarding the type.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[patch]

Are you declaring the types and exceptions in de package specification? That IMHO where PL/SQL Developer looks, or at least, that's what's in the data dictionary views, which are most likely used. As soon as you declare anything in the package body, the code assistant cannot read it.

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[WCLucas42]

We are declaring the types and the exceptions in the package specifications.

We can see the types from the code assistant, but we can not see the information about the type members.

i.e. When WE Type out BMQR_TYPES. we do not see the column list.
HTH

and Thanks,
Bill

 

[Marco Kalter]

You will indeed not get a field list of user defined record types. This is on the list of enhancement requests though, and we hope to implement this in 6.0.

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations