Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Oracle Flags Validation


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     Flags are useful in Oracle form validations. It's value can be stored into the database or it can be handled from form side. It can be represented in many different forms e.g. a checked box, a radio box or a static drop down list.


Task Definition:   


Validate a database  flag.



Task Solution:

      One way to handle flag validation is to create a program unit of  type function to return the stored value of flag  from Oracle database table.

      you can customize the returned value from your flag according to the notation you pre-determined  for  your application business logic.

    The following function returns a single value of the stored  database flag. There are two or more  possible  values e.g.  (1 or 0) Or (Y or N) but what we concern of is to get the current value of the selected flag according to the given condition in the database.
Then, we can raise an exception or change some item properties to validate user in-put.




FUNCTION Validate_Flag  RETURN BOOLEAN IS

v_flage  NUMBER;

BEGIN

     BEGIN

      SELECT your_db_flg
      INTO       v_flage 
      FROM   table_name
     WHERE -- conditions--- ;

  EXCEPTION

        WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN RETURN NULL;

  END;

IF v_flage   = 1 THEN
    
           RETURN TRUE;

ELSIF v_flage  = 0 THEN
    
         RETURN FALSE;

END IF;

END;




      Hence, the returned Boolean value from the program unit is just for the validation process. It has nothing nothing to do with the actual value of the database flag. Here is an example to reveal such a confussion.

Learn more about:

     ·      Data Validation



Hope this helps...

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