BIRT report library

ReportServer (EN)
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Hello,

I’m just getting started with Report Server 2.2. So far it seems really great, but I am struggling to use a Birt report with a library.

I have uploaded the library to the file system:

reportserver$ pwd
/fileserver/resources/lib/birt
reportserver$ ls
data_sources.rptlibrary
reportserver$

I have configured reportengines.cf to use the library path:

<path>/resources/lib/birt</path>

My report uses the library as:

<property name="fileName">data_sources.rptlibrary</property>

When executing the report the library is not used and I see the error message:

Jun 24, 2015 2:29:21 PM org.eclipse.birt.report.model.core.LayoutModule loadLibrarySilently
WARNING: Syntax error found, and see error details.
Error.DesignFileException.SYNTAX_ERROR - 1 errors found! 
1.)  org.eclipse.birt.report.model.parser.DesignParserException (code = Error.DesignParserException.FILE_NOT_FOUND, message : The file "data_sources.rptlibrary" is not found.)

        at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.core.LayoutModule.loadLibrary(LayoutModule.java:409)
        at org.eclipse.birt.report.model.core.LayoutModule.loadLibrarySilently(LayoutModule.java:469)
        .....

The only workaround I can find is to change the Birt report to use a URL as below. At this point the library is found and used:

<property name="fileName">rsfs://fileserver/resources/lib/birt/data_sources.rptlibrary</property>

Could anybody to point me to where I’m going wrong? I’ve tried using instead of and I’m remembering to do a config reload.

Many thanks,

Andy

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Hi Andy,

you are not doing anything wrong: It’s a bug. The library url is constructed incorrectly when the library folder path has more than two elements…

You should be fine if you change your library folder from /resources/lib/birt to /resources/birtlib

Cheers,
Thorsten

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Hi Thorsten,

Thank you for your prompt response. I’ve updated the confirmation so the Birt libraries are stored in /resources/birt instead of /resources/lib/birt.
Now it works perfectly!

Best Regards, Andy