BIRT Report Corrupted - Very Urgent

nuraniuscc

Hello,

I am using BIRT 2.3 on eclipse. Since Saturday, the reports which were working are not working. Meaning, When I open a particular .rptdesign file
I get the following message.

Could not open the editor: An unexpected exception was thrown.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.parser.ModuleParserHandler.endDocument(ModuleParserHandler.java:235)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.endEntity(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.endEntity(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipSpaces(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.parser.ModuleReader.readModule(ModuleReader.java:95)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.parser.GenericModuleReader.read(GenericModuleReader.java:84)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.core.DesignSession.openModule(DesignSession.java:412)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.core.DesignSession.openModule(DesignSession.java:386)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ModuleUtil.checkVersion(ModuleUtil.java:550)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ModuleUtil.checkVersion(ModuleUtil.java:634)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.editors.MultiPageReportEditor.addPages(MultiPageReportEditor.java:238)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.editors.IDEMultiPageReportEditor.addPages(IDEMultiPageReportEditor.java:327)
at org.eclipse.ui.forms.editor.FormEditor.createPages(FormEditor.java:146)
at org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorPart.createPartControl(MultiPageEditorPart.java:310)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.editors.ReportEditorProxy.createPartControl(ReportEditorProxy.java:138)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPartHelper(EditorReference.java:661)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPart(EditorReference.java:428)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPart(WorkbenchPartReference.java:594)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.setVisible(PartPane.java:306)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.PresentablePart.setVisible(PresentablePart.java:180)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.PresentablePartFolder.select(PresentablePartFolder.java:270)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.LeftToRightTabOrder.select(LeftToRightTabOrder.java:65)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.TabbedStackPresentation.selectPart(TabbedStackPresentation.java:473)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.refreshPresentationSelection(PartStack.java:1256)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.setSelection(PartStack.java:1209)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.showPart(PartStack.java:1608)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.add(PartStack.java:499)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorStack.add(EditorStack.java:103)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.add(PartStack.java:485)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorStack.add(EditorStack.java:112)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorSashContainer.addEditor(EditorSashContainer.java:63)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorAreaHelper.addToLayout(EditorAreaHelper.java:217)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorAreaHelper.addEditor(EditorAreaHelper.java:207)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.createEditorTab(EditorManager.java:779)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.openEditorFromDescriptor(EditorManager.java:678)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.openEditor(EditorManager.java:639)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditorBatched(WorkbenchPage.java:2817)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2729)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.access$11(WorkbenchPage.java:2721)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$10.run(WorkbenchPage.java:2673)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2668)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2652)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2635)
at org.eclipse.ui.ide.IDE.openEditorOnFileStore(IDE.java:1146)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.actions.OpenLocalFileAction.run(OpenLocalFileAction.java:107)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.actions.OpenLocalFileAction.run(OpenLocalFileAction.java:76)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PluginAction.runWithEvent(PluginAction.java:251)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WWinPluginAction.runWithEvent(WWinPluginAction.java:229)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:583)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:500)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:411)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1003)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3823)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3422)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2382)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2346)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2198)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:493)
at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:288)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:488)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:113)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:193)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:382)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:549)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1236)


Couple of my reports are NOT opening at all. They were all working fine couple of days back. Now, I am very tentative to open any of my other reports.

Questions

1) What is this message mean?

2) What do I need to do to GET my reports back without losing anything?

3) Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening in the future?

Please respond ASAP or call me at 608-441-4408.

This is Crucial as I have a demo coming up on Wednesday 12/18/09

Thanks
Nurani Sivakumar

cypherdj

Nurani,

can you attach one of the offending report designs as it's quite hard to figure out what the problem could be without the actual design?

Also, did you ever switch to the source of the report design (xml) or open it with a text editor?

Thanks,
Cedric