Creation of a REF Request and REF Passing
Method Set
In the first part of this paper we discussed
that to properly implement an object oriented type set where a
dependent table object uses a REF to refer to a master table object
two methods should be created. The first method, which for
convenience I will call the “get_ref” method, and a second, which I
will call the “give_ref” method will be created. The first will
reside in the dependent table object type specification and the
second will reside in the master table object type specification. As
its name implies the whole purpose of the first method is to request
the value of a specific REF from the master table. The whole purpose
of the second method is to receive the request for the REF, get the
requested REF from the master table object and return the REF to the
calling method. For this example we have two object tables,
EMPLOYEES and JOB_SITES that are related as is shown in Figure 1.
