Javascript Error with match()

Hi All, 
 
I am using BIRT 3.7.2 and outputting to PDF. I have two different reports. The following code works fine with one report, however with the other report I get an error. Both are used in a data element. The one thhhhat works is a data element in a grid, the other is in a table. 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>var str = dataSetRow["userSelectList3"];
var re = /([A-Z]*)$/;
var n = str.match(re);

n[0];</pre>
 
dataSetRow["userSelectList3"] is a string and this code works fine. 
 
This however errors out in the second report. row["Organization"] is a string. Same code as the first report, but I get an error. 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>var str = row["Organization"];

//logToDebugWindow(str)

var re = /^(.*?\/)(.*)(\/.*)$/;
var n = str.match(re);

n[0];</pre>
 
I have verified that str is populated and not null. I just can't seem to figure out why this is not working? 
 
The error looks like the following: 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.EngineException: A BIRT exception occurred. See next exception for more information.
Error evaluating Javascript expression. Script engine error: TypeError: Cannot find function match in object H/RAC/RAC.North America/RAC.North America./RAC.North America..US/RAC.North America..US.SW/RAC.North America..US.SW./RAC.North America..US.SW..RAC Operations/RAC.SW..San Antonio..
Script source: null, line: 0, text:
<compiled script> (Element ID:2852)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.ExecutionContext.addException(ExecutionContext.java:1237)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.ExecutionContext.addException(ExecutionContext.java:1216)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.QueryItemExecutor.executeQuery(QueryItemExecutor.java:96)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.TableItemExecutor.execute(TableItemExecutor.java:62)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.internal.executor.dup.SuppressDuplicateItemExecutor.execute(SuppressDuplicateItemExecutor.java:43)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.internal.executor.wrap.WrappedReportItemExecutor.execute(WrappedReportItemExecutor.java:46)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.internal.executor.l18n.LocalizedReportItemExecutor.execute(LocalizedReportItemExecutor.java:34)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLBlockStackingLM.layoutNodes(HTMLBlockStackingLM.java:65)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLStackingLM.layoutChildren(HTMLStackingLM.java:26)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLAbstractLM.layout(HTMLAbstractLM.java:140)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLInlineStackingLM.resumeLayout(HTMLInlineStackingLM.java:111)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLInlineStackingLM.layoutNodes(HTMLInlineStackingLM.java:160)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLStackingLM.layoutChildren(HTMLStackingLM.java:26)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLAbstractLM.layout(HTMLAbstractLM.java:140)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLBlockStackingLM.layoutNodes(HTMLBlockStackingLM.java:70)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLStackingLM.layoutChildren(HTMLStackingLM.java:26)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLTableLM.layoutChildren(HTMLTableLM.java:132)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLAbstractLM.layout(HTMLAbstractLM.java:140)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLBlockStackingLM.layoutNodes(HTMLBlockStackingLM.java:70)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLStackingLM.layoutChildren(HTMLStackingLM.java:26)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLAbstractLM.layout(HTMLAbstractLM.java:140)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLBlockStackingLM.layoutNodes(HTMLBlockStackingLM.java:70)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLStackingLM.layoutChildren(HTMLStackingLM.java:26)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLGroupLM.layoutChildren(HTMLGroupLM.java:117)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLAbstractLM.layout(HTMLAbstractLM.java:140)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLBlockStackingLM.layoutNodes(HTMLBlockStackingLM.java:70)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLStackingLM.layoutChildren(HTMLStackingLM.java:26)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLListLM.layoutChildren(HTMLListLM.java:72)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLAbstractLM.layout(HTMLAbstractLM.java:140)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLBlockStackingLM.layoutNodes(HTMLBlockStackingLM.java:70)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLPageLM.layout(HTMLPageLM.java:92)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.html.HTMLReportLayoutEngine.layout(HTMLReportLayoutEngine.java:100)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.doRun(RunAndRenderTask.java:180)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.run(RunAndRenderTask.java:77)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.ReportEngineService.runAndRenderReport(ReportEngineService.java:929)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.BirtViewerReportService.runAndRenderReport(BirtViewerReportService.java:973)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.actionhandler.BirtRunAndRenderActionHandler.__execute(BirtRunAndRenderActionHandler.java:76)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.actionhandler.AbstractBaseActionHandler.execute(AbstractBaseActionHandler.java:90)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.presentation.aggregation.layout.EngineFragment.doService(EngineFragment.java:318)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.presentation.aggregation.AbstractBaseFragment.service(AbstractBaseFragment.java:76)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BirtEngineServlet.__doGet(BirtEngineServlet.java:120)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BaseReportEngineServlet.doGet(BaseReportEngineServlet.java:185)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)

at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:327)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BaseReportEngineServlet.service(BaseReportEngineServlet.java:116)

at org.eclipse.equinox.http.registry.internal.ServletManager$ServletWrapper.service(ServletManager.java:180)

at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ServletRegistration.service(ServletRegistration.java:61)

at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ProxyServlet.processAlias(ProxyServlet.java:126)

at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ProxyServlet.service(ProxyServlet.java:60)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)

at org.eclipse.equinox.http.jetty.internal.HttpServerManager$InternalHttpServiceServlet.service(HttpServerManager.java:317)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:390)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)

at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:924)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:549)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)

at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:409)

at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)

Caused by: org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.core.DataException: A BIRT exception occurred. See next exception for more information.
Error evaluating Javascript expression. Script engine error: TypeError: Cannot find function match in object H/RAC/RAC.North America/RAC.North America./RAC.North America..US/RAC.North America..US.SW/RAC.North America..US.SW./RAC.North America..US.SW..RAC Operations/RAC.SW..San Antonio..
Script source: null, line: 0, text:
<compiled script>

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.core.DataException.wrap(DataException.java:123)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.expression.BytecodeExpression.evaluate(BytecodeExpression.java:54)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.expression.ExprEvaluateUtil.evaluateCompiledExpression(ExprEvaluateUtil.java:205)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.expression.ExprEvaluateUtil.evaluateCompiledExpression(ExprEvaluateUtil.java:219)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.expression.ExprEvaluateUtil.evaluateExpression(ExprEvaluateUtil.java:76)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.BindingColumnsEvalUtil.evaluateValue(BindingColumnsEvalUtil.java:201)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.BindingColumnsEvalUtil.getColumnsValue(BindingColumnsEvalUtil.java:161)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.ResultIterator.prepareCurrentRow(ResultIterator.java:778)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.ResultIterator.<init>(ResultIterator.java:168)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.QueryResults.getResultIterator(QueryResults.java:212)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.data.dte.QueryResultSet.<init>(QueryResultSet.java:115)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.data.dte.DteDataEngine.doExecuteQuery(DteDataEngine.java:176)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.data.dte.AbstractDataEngine.execute(AbstractDataEngine.java:267)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.ExecutionContext.executeQuery(ExecutionContext.java:1939)

at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.QueryItemExecutor.executeQuery(QueryItemExecutor.java:80)

... 62 more

Caused by: org.eclipse.birt.core.exception.CoreException: Error evaluating Javascript expression. Script engine error: TypeError: Cannot find function match in object H/RAC/RAC.North America/RAC.North America./RAC.North America..US/RAC.North America..US.SW/RAC.North America..US.SW./RAC.North America..US.SW..RAC Operations/RAC.SW..San Antonio..
Script source: null, line: 0, text:
<compiled script>

at org.eclipse.birt.core.script.JavascriptEvalUtil.wrapRhinoException(JavascriptEvalUtil.java:303)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.expression.BytecodeExpression.evaluate(BytecodeExpression.java:55)

... 75 more

Caused by: org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError: TypeError: Cannot find function match in object H/RAC/RAC.North America/RAC.North America./RAC.North America..US/RAC.North America..US.SW/RAC.North America..US.SW./RAC.North America..US.SW..RAC Operations/RAC.SW..San Antonio..

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.constructError(ScriptRuntime.java:3654)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.constructError(ScriptRuntime.java:3632)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.typeError(ScriptRuntime.java:3660)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.typeError2(ScriptRuntime.java:3679)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.notFunctionError(ScriptRuntime.java:3743)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.getPropFunctionAndThisHelper(ScriptRuntime.java:2247)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.getPropFunctionAndThis(ScriptRuntime.java:2214)

at org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpretLoop(Interpreter.java:3143)

at org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpret(Interpreter.java:2487)

at org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.call(InterpretedFunction.java:164)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.doTopCall(ContextFactory.java:398)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doTopCall(ScriptRuntime.java:3065)

at org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.exec(InterpretedFunction.java:175)

at org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.expression.BytecodeExpression.evaluate(BytecodeExpression.java:49)

... 75 more

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dbmathis

Solved. Imports were breaking things.

rajani_interwove

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="dbmathis" data-cid="117101" data-time="1369268506">
<div>
Solved. Imports were breaking things.
</div>
</blockquote>
Hi dbmathis,
 
I too have the same problem with my report. Can you please give some detail, about how you solved this ?
 
Thanks

jfranken

Hi Rajanig,
 
I don't have any familiarity with the previous post, but my guess is that a Java package was being imported that contained a match() method and the imported method was overriding the standard JavaScript method. Another possibility when a basic JavaScript function fails to run properly in BIRT is that the Rhino JavaScript engine used by BIRT has a bug that is causing the function call to fail. It's unlikely, but it might be worth doing a quick search. Of course, most errors are basic syntax errors.
 
Regards,
Jeff