Broken pipe with image/servlet during PDF render

kevinroll

I have a rather complex report that makes a call to a servlet to fetch an image. Everything is OK when viewing the report as HTML, but when I do a PDF strange things start to happen. Within my image servlet I get an exception when trying to write to the response:

ClientAbortException: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:358)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:434)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:309)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.flush(OutputBuffer.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.flush(CoyoteOutputStream.java:98)
at javax.imageio.stream.FileCacheImageOutputStream.close(FileCacheImageOutputStream.java:213)
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(ImageIO.java:1567)
at com.verani.web.backPage.PropertyMapServlet.doGet(PropertyMapServlet.java:206)

It looks like BIRT hits the URL of the servlet several times and eventually receives a satisfactory reponse. The report *is* produced, and the image looks normal, but the frequent errors concern me. My guess is that for some reason BIRT aborts the connection before the servlet is ready with the response, and this happens several times until it succeeds. Due to the complexity of this report I can't produce a ready test case. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thanks in advance.

JasonW

Are you using the BIRT viewer?<br />
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Take a look at this bug:<br />
<a class='bbc_url' href='https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=234624'>https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=234624</a><br />
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If this is not your issue please log a new bug.<br />
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Jason