Changing the location of plugins folder from WEB-INF to WEB-INF/Birt??

kiranv

Hello All,<br />
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I have a web application which is generating BIRT reports in different formats. It is working perfectly fine. <br />
I have placed the <strong class='bbc'><em class='bbc'>"platform"</em></strong> folder in <strong class='bbc'><em class='bbc'>"/WEB-INF"</em></strong> folder. However now I want the plugins folder to be moved from <strong class='bbc'><em class='bbc'>"/WEB-INF"</em></strong> to <strong class='bbc'><em class='bbc'>"/WEB-INF/BIRT "</em></strong> folder. Kindly let me know what changes I need to make in the Birt engine source code.<br />
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My source code to instantiate BirtEngine is the usual way- (where platform folder is in WEB-INF )<br />

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public static synchronized void initBirtEngine(ServletContext servletContext)<br />
{<br />
if (birtEngine == null) {<br />
IPlatformContext context = new PlatformServletContext(servletContext);<br />
EngineConfig config = new EngineConfig();<br />
HashMap appContext = config.getAppContext();<br />
<br />
appContext.put("PARENT_CLASSLOADER", BirtEngine.class.getClassLoader());<br />
config.setEngineHome("");<br />
config.setPlatformContext(context);<br />
config.setResourcePath(BirtEngine.class.getResource("/").getPath());<br />
config.setAppContext(appContext);<br />
try<br />
{<br />
Platform.startup(config);<br />
} catch (BirtException e) {<br />
// logger.error(e.getMessage(), e);<br />
}<br />
<br />
IReportEngineFactory factory = (IReportEngineFactory)Platform.createFactoryObject("org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.ReportEngineFactory");<br />
<br />
birtEngine = factory.createReportEngine(config);<br />
birtEngine.changeLogLevel(Level.WARNING);<br />
}<br />
}<br />

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JasonW

Currently that is hardcoded in the PlatformServletContext class.

Either create your own implementation of the IPlatformContext interface (which is easy because it only needs one method - getHome which is the location of the plugins) or modify the existing one. Use the PlatformServletContext class as an example to implement in a web enviornment.

You can also use the PlatformFileContext but it does not handle web deployment in the same fashion as the PlatformServletContext class.

Once you implement your own, just set it in your code like:

IPlatformContext context = new MyPlatformServletContext( sc );
config.setPlatformContext( context );

Jason