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Bug 341742

Summary:	ViewServlet gets the wrong fully qualified path on JBoss
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	ThomasS <tos>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Birt-ReportViewer <Birt-ReportViewer-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	bluesoldier
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	3.7.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description ThomasS

2011-04-04 04:13:09 EDT

Build Identifier: 2.6.2.r262_v20110214

I have upgraded from 2.3.2 to 2.6.2, only changing the Birt files, and now I get an error saying that Birt could not find my report.

The report file : C:\jboss\jboss-4.3.GA_CP07\server\default\.\tmp\deploy\tmp992098034010147889sync.ear-contents\admin-exp.war\filestore\reports/my_report.rptdesign does not exist or contains errors.

The reports are upon deploying copied to:
C:\jboss\jboss-4.3.GA_CP07\server\default\filestore\reports\ but for some reason Birt gets path wrong.

For more on what I have tried to solve this issue please read:
http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/21956-upgrading-to-latest-results-in-exception/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Xiaoying Gu

2011-04-06 06:19:59 EDT

BIRT_VIEWER_WORKING_FOLDER variable in web.xml needs to be set to the directory where reports locates. And BIRT_VIEWER_WORKING_FOLDER is a relative path to the web application's root.

For Jboss ear deploying, the ear file will be extract to C:\jboss\jboss-4.3.GA_CP07\server\default\.\tmp\deploy\... folder, so if you set BIRT_VIEWER_WORKING_FOLDER = filestore\reports, viewer will searching report designs under C:\jboss\jboss-4.3.GA_CP07\server\default\.\tmp\deploy\tmp992098034010147889sync.ear-contents\admin-exp.war\filestore\reports, which is the expected behavior.

If you copy the birt war folder directly to C:\jboss\jboss-4.3.GA_CP07\server\default\birt.war, the report design is expected to be located under  C:\jboss\jboss-4.3.GA_CP07\server\default\birt.war\${BIRT_VIEWER_WORKING_FOLDER}.

BIRT have no clue to find where the C:\jboss\jboss-4.3.GA_CP07\server\default\filestore\reports\ is, so you will have to add ../../../ before the "filestor\reports" according to your local deployment.

Comment 2 ThomasS

2011-04-07 02:19:13 EDT

Thank you for your answer.
It only leaves me puzzled why we had no problem in version 2.3.2? To me it means that something must have changed. 
Do you think that using ../../../ is the best solution when you have to deploy Birt together with another application?