How to create a complex PL/SQL procedure with Python, cx_Oracle - python-3.x

Question

I have a multi-line PL/SQL procedure, which I have to create.
The SQL procedure is similar to the one below,
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE HELLO AS
TYPE cur_cur is REF CURSOR;
v_cur_cur cur_cur;
age NUMBER;
day VARCHAR2(10);
date DATE;
BEGIN
<Some Execute Immediate stmts>
<Some insert stmts>
commit;
END;
Currently what I am doing is,
host= "localhost"
port= 1521
sid= "abcbcadacsw.com"
user= "groups"
password= "hello!bye1209"
dsn_tns = oracledb.makedsn(host, port, service_name=sid)
print(dsn_tns)
db_conn = oracledb.connect(user=user, password=password, dsn=dsn_tns)
curs= db_conn.cursor()
curs.execute("""
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE HELLO AS
TYPE cur_cur is REF CURSOR;
v_cur_cur cur_cur;
age NUMBER;
day VARCHAR2(10);
date DATE;
BEGIN
<Some Execute Immediate stmts>
<Some insert stmts>
commit;
END;
""")
The thing is the code runs without any issues, there are not runtime errors or anything ... but when i log into the DB to check for the created procedure, its not present. When i try to execute the procedure, it says 'identifier must be declared ... '.
I have tried converting it into a single line
curs.execute("""CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE HELLO AS TYPE cur_cur is REF CURSOR; v_cur_cur cur_cur; age NUMBER; day VARCHAR2(10); date DATE; BEGIN <Some Execute Immediate stmts> <Some insert stmts> commit; END;""")
This also does not work.
Please assist, ignore the correctness of the above shown procedure, i cannot put the original here, and i dont know much of SQL, i just need to know how to successfully create it in Python.

Answer 1

The driver doesn't (yet) return Oracle DB's 'success with info' errors so if there is a problem with the PL/SQL code you won't find out about it unless you explicitly query the error view.
In SQL*Plus:
create or replace procedure fred as
begin
f();
end;
/
would give:
Warning: Procedure created with compilation errors.
and a subsequent show errors will give
Errors for PROCEDURE FRED:
LINE/COL ERROR
-------- -----------------------------------------------------------------
3/3 PL/SQL: Statement ignored
3/3 PLS-00201: identifier 'F' must be declared
With cx_Oracle (and its new version python-oracledb) you don't get the initial indication there was a problem so you always should do the equivalent of the show errors command to check the error view. Try something like:
with connection.cursor() as cursor:
sql = """create or replace procedure fred as
begin
f();
end;"""
cursor.execute(sql)
sql = """select name, type, line, position, text
from user_errors
order by name, type, line, position"""
for r in cursor.execute(sql):
print(r)
which will show output like:
('FRED', 'PROCEDURE', 3, 20, 'PL/SQL: Statement ignored')
('FRED', 'PROCEDURE', 3, 20, "PLS-00201: identifier 'F' must be declared")
This is shown in the documentation Creating Stored Procedures and Packages.