Hi, <br />
<br />
I just started working with BIRT Design Engine API a couple of weeks ago. <br />
I built an application which is capable of designing reports programatically <br />
according to our needs. This has all worked fine so far using Eclipse. However, <br />
when packing the application into a Runnable JAR I start getting errors <br />
when rendering the reports. <br />
<br />
The type of errors that I get are not runtime errors, but simply at the time of <br />
rendering some information is lost (i.e. styles and charts). I'm attaching one <br />
of our reports rendered twice to HTML and PDF formats, first rendered running the <br />
application from Eclipse and then rendered from the executable JAR. The main <br />
differences are:<br />
<br />
* Some of the styles defined are missing in the second report.<br />
* Charts are not shown. Instead an error is posted at the bottom of the HTML. <br />
<br />
<p class='bbc_indent' style='margin-left: 40px;'><br />
Chart Shaft chart:<br />
+ exception.undefined.text.color<br /></p>
<br />
The only runtime error I get (when running the application from the JAR) occurs <br />
when rendering the reports to Excel format. The error is the following:<br />
<br />
<p class='bbc_indent' style='margin-left: 40px;'>org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.EngineException: Error happened while running the report.<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.EngineTask.handleFatalExceptions(EngineTask.java:2360)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.doRun(RunAndRenderTask.java:191)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.run(RunAndRenderTask.java:77)<br />
at romax.reports.main.RomaxEntryPoint.renderToFile(RomaxEntryPoint.java:252)<br />
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)<br />
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)<br />
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)<br />
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)<br />
at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:119)<br />
at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:392)<br />
at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:255)<br />
at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:124)<br />
at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:81)<br />
at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:175)<br />
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)<br />
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.css.engine.value.StringValue cannot be cast to org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.css.engine.value.FloatValue<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelXmlWriter.declareStyle(ExcelXmlWriter.java:515)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelXmlWriter.declareStyles(ExcelXmlWriter.java:662)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelXmlWriter.start(ExcelXmlWriter.java:847)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelWriter.start(ExcelWriter.java:95)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.layout.ExcelLayoutEngine.end(ExcelLayoutEngine.java:1071)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelEmitter.end(ExcelEmitter.java:298)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.CompositeContentEmitter.end(CompositeContentEmitter.java:65)<br />
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunAndRenderTask.doRun(RunAndRenderTask.java:183)<br />
... 13 more<br /></p>
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This problem is only regarding the rendering. If the report is saved and opened <br />
from the Eclipse Report perspective it can be rendered correctly (I'm also <br />
attaching the .rptdesign. All the charts and styles appear correctly. <br />
<br />
Since we have been working with the checked out source code from GIT, only one <br />
JAR is generated. This JAR contains all the classes from the imported projects <br />
merged into this one JAR.<br />
<br />
It seems that I am not packing the application correctly with the BIRT Design Engine <br />
API. My question is what is the correct way to do the packing and deployment? Is it <br />
possible to have access to the Design Engine API in JAR format? We are not really <br />
changing classes within the API.<br />
<br />
I apologise in advance if the answer to this question is trivial. Any help regarding<br />
this matter will be greatly appreciated. <br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
<br />
Maria
