How to integrate new emitter during runtime?

griniland

<p>I wrote my emitter ("MyEmitter") for Birt. No problems with launching it as Elcipse Application (plugin project) - I have new report viewing option, it starts and acts fine. </p><p>But, when I try to use it in my code  - Birt Runtime has no ideas about my extension:</p><pre class="_prettyXprint _lang-"> EngineConfig config = new EngineConfig(); config.setLogConfig("c:/temp/birt.log", Level.FINE); Platform.startup(config); IReportEngineFactory factory = (IReportEngineFactory) Platform.createFactoryObject(IReportEngineFactory.EXTENSION_REPORT_ENGINE_FACTORY); IReportEngine engine = factory.createReportEngine(config); engine.changeLogLevel(Level.WARNING); IReportRunnable design = engine.openReportDesign("test.rptdesign"); IRunAndRenderTask task = engine.createRunAndRenderTask(design); IRenderOption options = new RenderOption(); options.setOutputFormat("MyFormat"); options.setOutputFileName("c:/temp/result.MyFormat"); options.setEmitterID("MyEmitter"); task.setRenderOption(options); task.setEmitterID("MyEmitter"); task.run(); task.close(); engine.destroy(); Platform.shutdown();</pre><p>This fails with "unknown emitterID exception".  How should I register my emitter during runtime ? </p><p> </p><p>Offline it's "easy": I go to org.eclipse.birt.runtime.4.3.1.jar in my local repository, unzip it, modify plugin.xml (add MyEmitter extension  to org.eclipse.birt.emitters point). Then clear signatures in  META-INF/MANIFEST.MF for plugin.xml, delete few files with signatures.  Repack back to jar. That's it, now my code (see above) finally works.</p><p>Little bit tricky and perverted, is it any convenient way to cope with my task? </p><p>May be - some EngineConfig options? </p><p>Any help will be appreciated. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

johnw

<p>You only need to export it as a JAR through the Plugin Manifest dialog, then copy the JAR into the BIRT Runtimes "plugins" folder. If you rae running the Java runtime instead of the OSGi runtime, you should just need to copy it to the "lib" folder.</p>