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Problem with rowid and URL using plsql [message #121171]

Thu, 26 May 2005 11:10

adamjsawyer
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Some people in my class at college have a problem with rowid returning values with a '+' in there. When use the rowid as part of a url, it puts a space in, and the url won't load. We have established the escape code to stop this happening, but would like to use a supplied function to auto-format the url for us. Does something like this exist in either the owa_utils package or somewhere else?
thx
adam

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Re: Problem with rowid and URL using plsql [message #121216 is a reply to message #121171]

Thu, 26 May 2005 23:27

Frank Naude
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Try using UTL_URL.ESCAPE and UTL_URL.UNESCAPE.

The UTL_URL package is documented in the Supplied PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference Guide.

Best regards.

Frank

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Re: Problem with rowid and URL using plsql [message #121292 is a reply to message #121216]

Fri, 27 May 2005 08:11

adamjsawyer
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Thanks, I found the pl/sql guide on the net and found the description of the function. Only thing i'm not sure about is what to pass in as the charset... is there some default i can pull from somewhere and pass in, or is there an overloaded function that doesn't need the charset?
thx
adam

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Re: Problem with rowid and URL using plsql [message #121389 is a reply to message #121292]

Sat, 28 May 2005 02:09

Frank Naude
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Hi,

You do not need to specify the character set:

"If url_charset is NULL, the database charset is assumed and no character set conversion will occur. The default value is the current default body character set of the UTL_HTTP package, whose default value is ISO-8859-1. The character set can be named in Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) or Oracle naming convention."

Example:

SQL> SELECT utl_url.escape('http://orafaq.com/?param1=value with spaces')
  2    FROM dual;

UTL_URL.ESCAPE('HTTP://ORAFAQ.COM/?PARAM1=VALUEWITHSPACES')
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://orafaq.com/?param1=value%20with%20spaces

Best regards.

Frank

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Re: Problem with rowid and URL using plsql [message #121397 is a reply to message #121389]

Sat, 28 May 2005 05:21

adamjsawyer
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thank you very much, you're help has been invaluable. There's going to be half a class of very grateful people on tuesday
cheers
adam

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