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Oracle XS_NAMESPACE Version 26ai

General Information

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Oracle Database 26ai will be available on generic Linux platforms in January and soon on AIX and Windows

Purpose Real Application Security Namespace Management

AUTHID CURRENT_USER

Constants

Name	Data Type	Value
Attribute Events
NO_EVENT	PLS_INTEGER	0
FIRSTREAD_EVENT	PLS_INTEGER	1
UPDATE_EVENT	PLS_INTEGER	2
FIRSTREAD_PLUS_UPDATE_EVENT	PLS_INTEGER	3

Data Types -- the full DDL can be found in {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/xsns.sql CREATE OR REPLACE NONEDITIONABLE TYPE sys.xs$ns_attribute_list AS VARRAY(1000) OF XS$NS_ATTRIBUTE; / CREATE OR REPLACE NONEDITIONABLE TYPE sys.xs$list IS VARRAY(1000) OF VARCHAR2(4000);

Dependencies

CDB_XS_NS_TEMPLATES	XS$LIST	XS_ADMIN_INT
CDB_XS_NS_TEMPLATE_ATTRIBUTES	XS$NS_ATTRIBUTE	XS_ADMIN_UTIL
PLITBLM	XS$NS_ATTRIBUTE_LIST	XS_NAMESPACE_INT

Documented Yes

First Available 12.1

Pragma -- Enable log based replication for this package PRAGMA SUPPLEMENTAL_LOG_DATA(default, AUTO);

Security Model Owned by SYS with EXECUTE granted to PUBLIC

Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/xsns.sql

The DBA role is granted to the ADMIN_ANY_SEC_POLICY, which allows it to administer namespace templates and attributes.

Subprograms

ADD_ATTRIBUTES	DELETE_TEMPLATE	SET_DESCRIPTION
CREATE_TEMPLATE	REMOVE_ATTRIBUTES	SET_HANDLER

ADD_ATTRIBUTES

Add a attributes to the namespace template

Overload 1 xs_namespace.add_attributes( template IN VARCHAR2, attribute IN VARCHAR2, default_value IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, attribute_events IN PLS_INTEGER := xs_namespace.no_event);

-- demo from Oracle RAS doc

      BEGIN

        sys.xs_namespace.add_attributes('POAttrs', 'item_type', 'generic',  xs_namespace.update_event);

        sys.xs_namespace.remove_attributes('POAttrs', 'item_type');

      END;

      /

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Add a attributes to the namespace template

Overload 2 xs_namespace.add_attributes( template IN VARCHAR2, attr_list IN xs$ns_attribute_list);

TBD

CREATE_TEMPLATE

Document creation API xs_namespace.create_template( name IN VARCHAR2, attr_list IN XS$NS_ATTRIBUTE_LIST := NULL, schema IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, package IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, function IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, acl IN VARCHAR2 := 'SYS.NS_UNRESTRICTED_ACL', description IN VARCHAR2 := NULL);

-- based on demo from Oracle RAS doc

      DECLARE

       attrlist xs$ns_attribute_list;

      BEGIN

        attrlist := xs$ns_attribute_list();

        attrlist.extend(2);

        attrlist(1) := xs$ns_attribute('desc', 'general');

        attrlist(2) := xs$ns_attribute(name=>'item_no',

        attribute_events => xs_namespace.firstread_event);

      

        sys.xs_namespace.create_template(POAttrs, attrlist, 'SH', 'order','fulfillment', 'sys.ns_unrestricted_acl', 'Purchase Order');

      END;

      /

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

      
      

      col acl format a20

      col description format a42

      

      SELECT name, acl, description

      FROM cdb_xs_ns_templates;

      

      col attribute format a23

      col namespace format a15

      col default_value format a20

      

      SELECT *

      FROM cdb_xs_ns_template_attributes;

DELETE_TEMPLATE

Delete the namespace template xs_namespace.delete_template( template IN VARCHAR2, delete_option IN PLS_INTEGER := xs_admin_util.default_option);

exec xs_namespace.delete_template('POAttrs',  xs_admin_util.cascade_option);

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

REMOVE_ATTRIBUTES

Remove all attributes to the namespace template

Overload 1 xs_namespace.remove_attributes(template IN VARCHAR2);

exec sys.xs_namespace.remove_attributes('POAttrs');

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Remove a single attribute from the namespace template

Overload 2 xs_namespace.remove_attributes( template IN VARCHAR2, attribute IN VARCHAR2);

See ADD_ATTRIBUTES Demo Above

Remove a list of attribute from the namespace template

Overload 3 xs_namespace.remove_attributes( template IN VARCHAR2, attr_list IN XS$LIST);

TBD

SET_DESCRIPTION

Set namespace description xs_namespace.set_description( template IN VARCHAR2, description IN VARCHAR2);

exec sys.xs_namespace.set_description('POAttrs','Purchase Order Attributes');

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SET_HANDLER

Set handler for attribute events xs_namespace.set_handler( template IN VARCHAR2, schema IN VARCHAR2, package IN VARCHAR2, function IN VARCHAR2);

exec sys.xs_namespace.set_handler(POAttrs', 'SH', 'orders', 'populate_po');

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.