Documentation for IDAPI, examples of ExecuteReport

ptrhead99

<p>I'm new to BIRT.   I'm interested in using the IDAPI Web service interface to execute BIRT reports from a legacy application.   When examining the WSDL for IDAPI, I see an optional OutputFormat element that I can specify. The valid type for this is STRING.   However, I don't know what the set of valid values are.</p><p> </p><p>The examples I've seen specify either HTML or PDF. Are there other types ? It would be nice if I could request either a text file or a CSV file so that I can parse this output and present it to the user in a legacy manner.</p><p> </p><p>I've searched for a more-detailed SDK or API paper of IDAPI, with no luck.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks in advance for the feedback.</p>

grather

<p>I posted this in another thread but it helped immensely.</p><p>I have since then moved on to making the calls just calling URI  for report execution.</p><p>I am using IDAPI for the no execution tasks. List of report and such.</p><p> </p><p>Hope this helps.</p><p> </p><p>

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</p><p>Some example Code. Hope it helps someone else.</p><p>To get a list of Reports</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Out on GitHub there are some extremely nice idapi-wrappers</p><p><a class="bbc_url" href="https://github.com/puckpuck/idapi-wrapper&quot; title="External link">https://github.com/p...k/idapi-wrapper</a></p><p> </p><p>Looks like someone at Actuate keeps this up. Thank you.</p><p> </p><p>with this code. to get a list of Reports from the iHub3  server</p><p> </p><p>two lines of code.</p><p>   ActuateServer ac = new ActuateServer();
  ArrayList<com.actuate.schemas.File> reportfiles = ac.getListReports("","/Applications");</p><p> </p><p>then to execute a report</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> ReportExecuter reportExecuter = new ReportExecuter("<a class="bbc_url" href="http://localhost:8000/&quot; title="External link">http://localhost:8000/</a>", "Administrator", "", "Default Volume");</p><p>   HashMap<String, String> parameters = new HashMap<String, String>();
  parameters.put("employeeSelect", "1");</p><p> </p><p> String objId = reportExecuter.executeReport("/Applications/"+rptFullName,null,parameters );
 </p><p> viewURL += "iv?__report=";
  viewURL += URLEncoder.encode("/$$$Transient/", "UTF-8");
  viewURL += objId + ".rptdocument&connectionHandle=";
  viewURL += URLEncoder.encode(reportExecuter.getConnectionHandle(), "UTF-8");
  viewURL += "&userid=" + "Administrator";
  viewURL += "&password=" + "";
  viewURL += "&volume=" +  URLEncoder.encode("Default Volume", "UTF-8");
  //String viewURL = StringUtils.escapeHtml(viewURL);</p><p> </p><p>   // I use a jsp to then open this url</p><p>   // But there is an openURL method I don't use that one
  req.setAttribute("viewURL",viewURL);
  //openURL(viewURL, req, res);</p>