[stackoverflow] [progress Openedge Abl] Edit `table-handler` To Point To Another Temp-table

[Ashton Woods]

I'm trying to overwrite the parameter handler, so it'd point to another temp-table with different schema.

myProcedure.p

DEFINE TEMP-TABLE TT_RealTable NO-UNDO
BEFORE-TABLE TT_RealTableBefore
FIELD name AS CHAR
.

DEF INPUT-OUTPUT PARAM TABLE-HANDLE TH_NewTable.

CREATE TT_RealTable.
ASSIGN TT_RealTable.name = "Ben".

CREATE TT_RealTable.
ASSIGN TT_RealTable.name = "Harry".


The TH_NewTable points to a random parameter TEMP-TABLE with different schema and contents. I want to overwrite this parameter TABLE-HANDLER with the TT_RealTable. If I try to set:

TH_NewTable = TEMP-TABLE TT_RealTable:HANDLE.


The program will crash at runtime saying that TT_RealTable's schema/meta data doesn't match the handler's one.

How I can overwrite the handler to point to my TT_RealTable:HANDLE, and return it as output?

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