Hi Joe, I'm using JSF+Birt myself in a project but I can't help in this
special case but I suggest that you would rather get some quick response if
you posted this to the birt newsgroup. I have experienced that they respond
quite quickly!
Joe ONeil wrote:
>
> I can create the pdf file and I can open the pdf file it but my browser
> screen does not finish refreshing so end up with a white screen I create
> the Birt engine in the application bean with has an application scope
> I can create a HTML report and open it in a seperate browser window if I
> have to but I would rather have a PDF This is the code I am using
>
> ****application bean****
> try{
> config = new EngineConfig();
> config.setEngineHome(
> "C:\\birtruntime\\birt-runtime-2_2_0\\ReportEngine" );
> config.setLogConfig("c:/birt/logs", Level.FINE);
> Platform.startup( config );
> IReportEngineFactory factory = (IReportEngineFactory) Platform
> .createFactoryObject(
> IReportEngineFactory.EXTENSION_REPORT_ENGINE_FACTORY );
> engine = factory.createReportEngine( config );
> engine.changeLogLevel( Level.WARNING );
> }catch( Exception ex){
> ex.printStackTrace();
> }
> I then have a action that uses the engine
> public String birtReport2(){
> System.out.println("entering birtReport2");
> HashMap<String, Integer> parameters = new HashMap<String,
> Integer>();
> String name = "requestid";
> Integer pvalue = new Integer(4);
> parameters.put(name, 9667);
> FacesContext faces = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
> HttpServletResponse resp = (HttpServletResponse)
> faces.getExternalContext
>
> ().getResponse();
> HttpServletRequest req=(HttpServletRequest)
> faces.getExternalContext().getRequest();
> resp.setContentType( "application/pdf" );
> resp.setHeader ("Content-Disposition","attachment;
> filename=/output.pdf");
> ServletContext sc = req.getSession().getServletContext();
> PDFRenderContext renderContext = new PDFRenderContext();
> HashMap<String, PDFRenderContext> contextMap = new
> HashMap<String,
>
>
> PDFRenderContext>();
> contextMap.put( EngineConstants.APPCONTEXT_PDF_RENDER_CONTEXT,
> renderContext );
> IReportRunnable design;
> try
> {
> //Open report design
> design =
> FacesUtils.getApplicationBean().getEngine().openReportDesign(sc.getRealPath
>
> ("app/birt/compliancerecycle.rptdesign"));
> //create task to run and render report
> IRunAndRenderTask task =
> FacesUtils.getApplicationBean().getEngine()
>
> .createRunAndRenderTask( design );
> task.setAppContext( contextMap );
> //set output options
> PDFRenderOption options = new PDFRenderOption();
>
> //options.setOutputFormat(HTMLRenderOption.OUTPUT_FORMAT_HTML);
> options.setOutputFormat(PDFRenderOption.OUTPUT_FORMAT_PDF);
> // options.setOutputFileName(filename);
>
> //System.out.println("options.getOutputFileName()"+options.getOutputFileName());
> options.setOutputFormat("pdf");
> options.setOutputStream(resp.getOutputStream());
> task.setRenderOption(options);
> //run report
> task.run();
> task.close();
> faces.responseComplete();
> }catch (Exception e){
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> System.out.println("leaving birtReport2");
> return "null";
> }
> I have also tried it with the HTMLRenderContext and HTMLRenderOption with
> the same results
>
>
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