Re: How to simulate ORA-03114 "Not connected to Oracle" in a test application?

[Quoted] "André Hartmann" <andre.hartmann_at_hotmail.de> wrote in message news:47345e78$0$16669$9b4e6d93_at_newsspool3.arcor-online.net...
> Hi there,
> I would like to simulate ORA-03114 in a test application and I would like
> to get some clues as to how to do this.
>
> Since people are probably going to ask why I want to do that, here is
> some background. An Oracle client application of ours that connects to
> Oracle via OCI, sometimes faces loss of connection, for example when a lap
> to goes into hibernation or the network is unstable. We are speaking of a
> Windows 2000, XP, Vista client here. Now we want to improve the error
> handling in our application in this specific case. That is no problem
> because ORA-03114 can be detected and appropriate measures can be taken
> (error message, automatic reconnection, ...).
>
> However for every issue that we fix in our applications we are writing a
> test case which will test a particular behaviour or bug fix. We do this in
> form of unit tests, so the unit test application will simply run for a
> short or long span of time without user interaction and protocol what
> happened, for example how many of the tests succeeded and how many failed.
>
> The loss of connection we dont know how to simulate. One way is to use
> OEM and manually KILL the session at the appropriate point of time and see
> what the application will do. But that requires user interaction, so its
> not like you can run the tests over night and just scan the protocol the
> next morning...
>
> We are using MS Dev studio 2005/2003 and the standard OCI library. Thanks
> very much in advance
>
> André
> :)

Raise application error , kill Received on Fri Nov 09 2007 - 18:45:34 CET