One to many, old style

davidsills

I have a client who requires me to use Java 1.4.2 (antediluvian). To use BIRT in this environment, I'm forced to use BIRT 2.1.3. However, this causes a problem.

My report (originally developed on a much later version of BIRT) is based on scripting data sets, each interlinked (so that the getXXXList() method from the outer scripting object is held in a column in the master data set and then sent in as a parameter to the XXXDS (sort of nested) data set).

The problem is that while BIRT has now a "javaObject" type to store this list to when I extract it as a column in the scripting data set, unfortunately the earlier version of BIRT does not have this data type (it doesn't even have a Boolean data type, which surprised me).

Can anyone point me to a reference that would let me know how one is supposed to handle this kind of problem in the old days before the "javaObject" type? Is it simply impossible? I know I'm constrained past the point of bearing it, but I don't really want to have to switch to another report writer....

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

David Sills

mwilliams

Can you store the object in a persistentGlobalVariable or in a GlobalVariable and then just access the object with this variable, in your sub tables?