This example demonstrates STL-compliant OTL stream itertors, std::strings, and ANSI C++ typecasts.
#include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <iterator> #include <string>
#define OTL_ORA8 // Compile OTL 4.0/OCI8
#define OTL_STL // Turn on STL features
#define OTL_ANSI_CPP // Turn on ANSI C++ typecasts
#include <otlv4.h> // include the OTL 4.0 header file
using namespace std;
otl_connect db; // connect object
// row container class
class row{
public:
 int f1;
 string f2;
// default constructor
 row(){f1=0;}
// destructor
 ~row(){}
// copy constructor
 row(const row& row)
 {
  f1=row.f1;
  f2=row.f2;
 }
 
// assignment operator
 row& operator=(const row& row)
 {
  f1=row.f1;
  f2=row.f2;
  return *this;
 }
};
// redefined operator>> for reading row& from otl_stream
otl_stream& operator>>(otl_stream& s, row& row)
{
 s>>row.f1>>row.f2;
 return s;
}
// redefined operator<< for writing row& into otl_stream
otl_stream& operator<<(otl_stream& s, const row& row)
{
 s<<row.f1<<row.f2;
 return s;
}
// redefined operator<< writing row& into ostream
ostream& operator<<(ostream& s, const row& row)
{
 s<<"f1="<<row.f1<<", f2="<<row.f2;
 return s;
}
void insert()
// insert rows into table
{ 
 otl_stream o(50, // buffer size
              "insert into test_tab values(:f1<int>,:f2<char[31]>)", 
                 // SQL statement
              db // connect object
             );
 row r; // single row buffer
 vector<row> vo; // vector of rows
// populate the vector
 for(int i=1;i<=100;++i){
  r.f1=i;
  r.f2="NameXXX";
  vo.push_back(r);
 }
 cout<<"vo.size="<<vo.size()<<endl;
// insert vector into table
 copy(vo.begin(), 
      vo.end(), 
      otl_output_iterator<row>(o)
     );
}
void select()
{ 
 otl_stream i(50, // buffer size
              "select * from test_tab where f1>=:f<int> and f1<=:f*2",
                 // SELECT statement
              db // connect object
             ); 
   // create select stream
 
 vector<row> v; // vector of rows
// assigning :f = 8
 i<<8;
// SELECT automatically executes when all input variables are
// assigned. First portion of out rows is fetched to the buffer
// copy all rows to be fetched into the vector
 copy(otl_input_iterator<row,ptrdiff_t>(i), 
      otl_input_iterator<row,ptrdiff_t>(),
      back_inserter(v));    
 cout<<"Size="<<v.size()<<endl;
// send the vector to cout
 copy(v.begin(), v.end(), ostream_iterator<row>(cout, "\n"));
// clean up the vector
 v.erase(v.begin(),v.end());
 i<<4; // assigning :f = 4
   // SELECT automatically executes when all input variables are
   // assigned. First portion of out rows is fetched to the buffer
// copy all rows to be fetched to the vector
 copy(otl_input_iterator<row,ptrdiff_t>(i), 
      otl_input_iterator<row,ptrdiff_t>(),
      back_inserter(v));    
 cout<<"Size="<<v.size()<<endl;
// send the vector to cout
 copy(v.begin(), v.end(), ostream_iterator<row>(cout, "\n"));
}
int main()
{
 otl_connect::otl_initialize(); // initialize OCI environment
 try{
  db.rlogon("scott/tiger"); // connect to Oracle
  otl_cursor::direct_exec
   (
    db,
    "drop table test_tab",
    otl_exception::disabled // disable OTL exceptions
   ); // drop table
  otl_cursor::direct_exec
   (
    db,
    "create table test_tab(f1 number, f2 varchar2(30))"
    );  // create table
  insert(); // insert records into table
  select(); // select records from table
 }
 catch(otl_exception& p){ // intercept OTL exceptions
  cerr<<p.msg<<endl; // print out error message
  cerr<<p.stm_text<<endl; // print out SQL that caused the error
  cerr<<p.var_info<<endl; // print out the variable that caused the error
 }
 db.logoff(); // disconnect from Oracle
 return 0;
}
vo.size=100 Size=9 f1=8, f2=NameXXX f1=9, f2=NameXXX f1=10, f2=NameXXX f1=11, f2=NameXXX f1=12, f2=NameXXX f1=13, f2=NameXXX f1=14, f2=NameXXX f1=15, f2=NameXXX f1=16, f2=NameXXX Size=5 f1=4, f2=NameXXX f1=5, f2=NameXXX f1=6, f2=NameXXX f1=7, f2=NameXXX f1=8, f2=NameXXX
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