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Bug 340560

Summary:

Usage of Parameter Bindings in Data Sources causes Report Designer to throw errors

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Dmitry Balzer <balzerd>

Component:

BIRT

Assignee:

Birt-Data-inbox <Birt-Data-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Tianli Zhang <tzhang>

Severity:

critical

Priority:

CC:

bluesoldier, lamprecht, mwu, osk, schoenberg

Version:

2.6.2

Target Milestone:

3.7.0 M6

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Obsolete

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Error screenshot	none
Sample report with a Report Parameter	none
Sample XML file	none
patch jar	none
patch jar	none

Description Dmitry Balzer

2011-03-21 08:22:48 EDT

Build Identifier: Build id: 20110218-0911

Whenever you use a Parameter Binding in a Data Source (f.e. take an XML Data Source and use the "XML Data Source File" Property Binding), the Report Designer will throw errors if you try to create a Data Set that uses this Data Source, making the new Data Set unusable in the Report Designer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new empty Report.
2. Create a Report Parameter, say XMLTestFile and point it to a file with input data.
3. Create an XML Data Source and set "XML Data Source File" Property Binding to params["XMLTestFile"].value.
4. Create a Data Set, set it to use the newly created Data Source. Create at least one field in the Data Set and click Finish.

You will get the following error:

A BIRT exception occurred.
  Plug-in Provider:Eclipse.org
  Plug-in Name:BIRT Core Package
  Plug-in ID:org.eclipse.birt.core
  Version:2.6.2.r262_v20110209
  Error Code:birt.core.JavascriptError
  Error Message:Error evaluating Javascript expression. Script engine error: Report parameter "XMLTestFile" does not exist.
 Script source: <inline>, line: 0, text:
params["XMLTestFile"].value

The same functionality was working perfectly in BIRT 2.6.0

Comment 1 Dmitry Balzer

2011-03-21 08:23:36 EDT

Created attachment 191608 [details]
Error screenshot

Comment 2 Dmitry Balzer

2011-03-21 08:25:37 EDT

Created attachment 191609 [details]
Sample report with a Report Parameter

Attached a sample report. Just create a data set that uses the provided Data Source with one field and click OK to get the error.

The create Data Set won't be expandable any more in the Data Explorer tree and unusable in data field bindings.

Comment 3 Dmitry Balzer

2011-03-21 08:26:17 EDT

Created attachment 191610 [details]
Sample XML file

Comment 4 Xiaoying Gu

2011-03-22 21:04:17 EDT

This bug was already fixed in 3.7.0M6. Set as fixed.

Comment 5 Dmitry Balzer

2011-03-23 04:29:23 EDT

Can you please provide a fix for this bug and make available via Help>Check for updates in BIRT?

This particular bug is causes a lot of grief here, as all my reports depend on it.
Please provide a fix asap.

Comment 6 Xiaoying Gu

2011-03-23 05:00:21 EDT

Mingxia,

Can we provide a patch for this bug?

Comment 7 Mingxia Wu

2011-03-23 23:36:46 EDT

Created attachment 191802 [details]
patch jar

Use attached jar file to replace the package org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.data_xxxx under $Eclipse_Home/plugins directory.

Comment 8 Mingxia Wu

2011-03-23 23:38:56 EDT

Created attachment 191803 [details]
patch jar

Comment 9 Dmitry Balzer

2011-03-24 05:27:00 EDT

Thanks guys, much appreciated

Comment 10 Xiaoying Gu

2011-04-06 23:31:36 EDT

*** Bug 342001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Xiaoying Gu

2011-05-06 03:30:56 EDT

*** Bug 344854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Xiaoying Gu

2011-05-12 05:15:47 EDT

*** Bug 345249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***