I have created some Perl bindings for some existing custom C++ libraries. One of these C++ libraries implements a class that uses Oracle OCI calls.
I would like to create a connection to the Oracle database using Perl's DBI (DBD::Oracle) module, and then ideally share that connection with the C++ libraries. This would require me to extract the Oracle OCI handles from the $dbh object...and then pass them to the C++ libraries. What would be the best way to get access to the underlying Oracle OCI handles from a $dbh object?