Linking library to the report

Hi 
I think this is a common issue but I still cannot find the solution. 
 
I don't use the report viewer or jsp tags in my web application. I use birt4Jsf (<a class='bbc_url' href='http://exadel.org/jsf4birt'>http://exadel.org/jsf4birt</a>) as the following: 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'><birt:birtWrapper id="report" reportDesign="/WEB-INF/reports/crossModelsByMonth.rptdesign">
<f:param name="endDate" value="#{util.convertToSqlDate(crossModelsReport.endDate, false)}" />
</birt:birtWrapper></pre>
 
This framework is for some previous versions of Birt but with few changes to code it worked with latest ones (Birt 3.6). The report is rendered excellently. 
 
Though I have the problem with linking the shared library to my report. I used lots of paths, but it still doesn't work: 
analytics/rstk.rptlibrary 
/KaskoCalculator/analytics/rstk.rptlibrary 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://localhost:8080/KaskoCalculator/analytics/rstk.rptlibrary'>http://localhost:8080/KaskoCalculator/analytics/rstk.rptlibrary</a> 
rstk.rptlibrary 
 
Here is the snippet from my .rptdesign file: 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'><list-property name="libraries">
<structure>
<property name="fileName">http://localhost:8080/KaskoCalculator/analytics/rstk.rptlibrary</property>
<property name="namespace">rstk</property>
</structure>
</list-property></pre>
 
My library is inside src\main\webapp\analytics\rstk.rptlibrary directory and is packed to the application correctly 
 
Web context variable for setting resource path seems not helpful as I don't use report viewer. 
So, what can be done in this case? 
 
Thanks.

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bitec2

Any thoughts? What is the rule for the path to library file?

Thanks

CBR

Hi,

the library is to be fetched from disc while generating a report that imports a library. Therefore the report engine uses a class that implements the birt IResourceLocator interface. This class is to be asked where to load the library from.
The default implementation looks for the library using the relative path given inside the report xml file from the resource path. The resource path is a directory that you need to set using the EngineConfig object that is used to startup birt.

You have to provide a directory using engineConfig.setResourcePath(...)

If you do not set a resource path it is looking for the library in the directory of the report using the relative path given in the report design file.

I m assuming that there is no resource path set in birt4jsf

bitec2

Thanks a lot. Actually jsf4Birt calls engineConfig.setResourcePath() and initializes with values of property config file, defined in web.xml. So when no property is defined, it sets null and library is not found. I tried to remove this call and use the current report directory as the root one as you said - this didn't help for some reasons.. But after I defined the property explicitly (the absolute path) - this worked ok. So now the problem is solved, though I had to set the absolute path for each environments which we are using.

sakkie6yster

hi bitec2,

are you using birt4jsf with JSF 2.0?