I believe it is more a JSF problem because I can even save the pdf and open
the file outside the browser
I think it is more a JSF lifecycle problem the faces.responseComplete();
is what displays the pdf
Martin Ahrer wrote:
>
> 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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