How to get the value of a cell in a table by BIRT API?

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<p>I have a table in a BIRT report, and I want to get the value of cell(0, 0) in it by API.</p>
<p>I can get the cell handle, but what shuold I do next?</p>
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<p>public void beforeFactory(IReportDesign report, IReportContext reportContext)    throws ScriptException<br>
    {<br>
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub<br>
        super.beforeFactory(report, reportContext);<br>
        <br>
        try<br>
        {<br>
            TableHandle mytable = (TableHandle) reportContext.getDesignHandle().findElement("mytable");<br>
            RowHandle detail = (RowHandle) mytable.getDetail().get(0);<br>
            CellHandle cell = (CellHandle) detail.getCells().get(0);</p>
<p>
            <strong>// I want to get the value of the cell(0, 0), what shuold I do next?</strong></p>
<p>
        }<br>
    }</p>

Matthew L.

<p>From my understanding, you cannot grab the value of the data element from within the beforeFactory method because the factory has not run to get the values yet.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Could you let me know what you are wanting to accomplish as an end result?</p>
<p>Perhaps there is another way to accomplish the task you are looking for.</p>