Re: Object Relational Feature

On 2005-06-23, sburk_at_mooseandpebs.com <sburk_at_mooseandpebs.com> wrote:
> I have a parent class (PL/SQL) and some child classes that inherit from the
> parent object.
> I have a table of the parent class type
> I have objects of the parent and children classes in the table.
> Each child has an overloaded method of the parent.
> The question is this:
> While inside a procedure in a separate package how do I deref the object
> into the a variable not knowing what type it is so I can execute the method
> of the class it is? If I deref it into the parent class it executes the
> parents method.
> Thanks!

If I understand your setup, there's no requirment to 'deref something into a parent class'.

Maybe, this link helps:
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/plsql/oo/example_2.html

Rene

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