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Bug 331713

Summary:	reportContext.getOutputFormat not working
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Jason Weathersby <jasonweathersby>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Birt-ReportEngine-inbox <Birt-ReportEngine-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Xiaoying Gu <bluesoldier>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bluesoldier, millvall, wyan
Version:	2.6.1
Target Milestone:	3.7.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	Obsolete

Description Jason Weathersby

2010-12-02 14:40:39 EST

When calling reportContext.getOutputFormat() in a beforeFactory script does not always return the right value.  Add the following code to the beforeFactory

importPackage( Packages.java.io );
out = new PrintWriter( new FileWriter( "c:/test/log.txt", true ) );
out.println( reportContext.getOutputFormat());
out.close()

run the report to html, then pdf, then back to html.  The last time in html the log will show output format pdf.

Comment 1 Xiaoying Gu

2010-12-07 01:28:31 EST

Since this script is called at generation time, so if the report is fixed-layout, it always return "pdf". If the report is auto-layout, it always return "html".

If this script is called at render time, it should return the actually format. 

Marked as wontfix.

Comment 2 Jason Weathersby

2010-12-07 09:02:32 EST

In my opinion that makes this call misleading.  From script you can get the __format url parameter and at runtime in the viewer it is set to html even with a fixed report.

Comment 3 Wei Yan

2010-12-07 12:38:16 EST

The reason is we execute two task for such a request, the run task has no format while the render task has a format. The beforeFactory is invoked in the run task only.

Comment 4 Jason Weathersby

2010-12-07 12:59:33 EST

I understand that.  Maybe a better option would be to return rptdocument instead of pdf.

Comment 5 Xiaoying Gu

2010-12-19 21:36:56 EST

*** Bug 332906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***