Description Ghislain Gadbois 2011-11-07 10:24:23 EST

We needed to retreive the current page number from a Java Event Handler.

We found that using IReportContext.getPageVariable("pageNumber") should return the right value, but it doesn't.

Searching through the source code, we found out that this ends up calling org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.ExecutionContext.getPageVariable(String).  Here is the code for this method...

	public Object getPageVariable( String name )
	{
		if ( "totalPage".equals( name ) )
		{
			return Long.valueOf( totalPage );
		}
		if ( "pageNumber".equals( name ) )
		{
			return Long.valueOf( totalPage );
		}
		PageVariable var = pageVariables.get( name );
		if ( var != null )
		{
			return var.getValue( );
		}
		return null;
	}

You can clearly see that when "pageNumber".equals(name), it returns totalPage and not pageNumber as it should.

We found a workaround by using IReportContext.evaluate("pageNumber;"), but it's not that elegant, given the performance loss caused by evaluating a Javascript expression.

Thank you for your help!