Difference between using RenderOption to configure BIRT Engine and during render task.

virgosmart

<p>Hello,</p><p> </p><p>What is the difference between passing the RenderOption object to BIRT engine configuration and passing it to a render task (IRenderTask or IRunAndRenderTask) ?</p><p> </p><p>I create my BIRT Engine once during app. start up and then reuse it to run/render different reports. I configure the RenderOption's output stream to either an ServletOutputStream or a File depending upon the output format (HTML / PDF resp.). Obviously, I cannot do that if I register this RenderOption with the BIRT engine (using EngineConfig.setEmitterConfiguration method) as each user request would have a different output stream to which I need to write to.</p><p> </p><p>There is something amiss. What is the recommended approach ?</p><p> </p><p>Is there some sort of merging of render options (common render options set using EngineConfig.setEmitterConfiguration method merged with the per user-request render option) that happens during actual rendering ?</p><p> </p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Gautam.</p>