Best way to programmatically embed text into report

dansh

Hi

I have a report that will require chunks of text (that will be created dynamically) to be embedded from a Java program that runs the report.

Is there a way I can put a text object into the design and then somehow get hold that of that object in my Java program. If this is possible I assume I would be able to insert text into that text object.

Is this the best way to do this?
A code snippet would be gratefully accepted.

Thanks in advance.

JasonW

If you are using the API you can add an object to the appcontext of the report engine, which can then be retrieved when the report is running.

For example (RE API):

IReportEngine engine=null;
EngineConfig config = null;
//config.setRourcePath()
SampleClass dl = new SampleClass();
try{

config = new EngineConfig( );
HashMap hm = config.getAppContext();
hm.put( "sample", dl);
config.setAppContext(hm);
config.setBIRTHome("C:\\birt\\ReportEngine");
Platform.startup( config );
IReportEngineFactory factory = (IReportEngineFactory) Platform
.createFactoryObject( IReportEngineFactory.EXTENSION_REPORT_ENGINE_FACTORY );
engine = factory.createReportEngine( config );


The dummy object can now be called in any birt expression like:


"Test My Sample Object: " + sample.getString();

You can also call it like:

reportContext.getAppContext().get("sample").getString();


Jason