BIRT 2.2 - Access to reportContext in beforeDrawAxisLabel

cypherdj

Hi,<br />
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I have a requirement to support various date formats across multiple reports, both in tables/crosstabs and charts. Obviously, BIRT provides default and custom formatting but I could not find a way to dynamically change this based on a report context property.<br />
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We already pass the date-time format in the report context, and this can be retrieved at runtime using :<br />
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reportContext.getAppContext().get("DateFormat")
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This works fine for tables and crosstabs. The column binding is typed as String rather than Date, and we apply the formatting in the binding expression as:<br />
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importPackage(Packages.java.text);

format = reportContext.getAppContext().get("DateFormat");
sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);

sdf.format(params["invoicedate"])
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However, I cannot figure out how to access the report context from within the beforeDrawAxisLabel method.<br />
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Would anyone have faced a similar problem before and if so, how did you resolve the issue?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Cedric

johnw

Its either:

var reportContext = icsc.getExternalContext().getObject();

or its

var reportContext = icsc.getExternalContext().getScriptable();

I believe both will work.