What's the best way to deploy a BIRT report template over 100 project areas?
Unfortunatly BIRT templates are not inherited from a parent project area (at least it was not until 4.0.5 as much as I know).
Since 4.0.3 you can load report resources from other project areas, but this means still opening of each project area and deploy the resources. When you have 100+ PA's thats quite boring.
Is there a way to deploy a report template (or replace a built-in template to deploy a patch) from one central place to ALL project areas?
Since 4.0.3 you can load report resources from other project areas, but this means still opening of each project area and deploy the resources. When you have 100+ PA's thats quite boring.
Is there a way to deploy a report template (or replace a built-in template to deploy a patch) from one central place to ALL project areas?
Accepted answer
here is code I wrote just last week to deploy report resources.. same as the UI does. (well, I deploy all avalable,)
takes repo url, userid, password and project.
this does ONE project area.. to do a lot (all) use the routine
public static List<iprojectarea> getProjectArea(ITeamRepository repo,
IProgressMonitor monitor, String projectAreaName)
IProgressMonitor monitor, String projectAreaName)
from this post
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/142728/auto-backup-of-process-configuration-xml-source
to get a list of ALL the projects on the repository (projectname='*')
then lop thru the projects and then loop thru their reports..
note that the user executing this MUST have permission to deploy report resources, or you will a false
'operation canceled' exception, instead of 'permission denied'
package com.sd.tools;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.List;
import com.ibm.team.process.client.IProcessClientService;
import com.ibm.team.process.common.IProcessArea;
import com.ibm.team.process.common.IProcessAreaHandle;
import com.ibm.team.process.common.IProjectArea;
import com.ibm.team.reports.client.IReportManager;
import com.ibm.team.reports.common.IReportDescriptor;
import com.ibm.team.repository.client.ITeamRepository;
import com.ibm.team.repository.client.TeamPlatform;
import com.ibm.team.repository.client.ITeamRepository.ILoginHandler;
import com.ibm.team.repository.client.ITeamRepository.ILoginHandler.ILoginInfo;
import com.ibm.team.repository.common.TeamRepositoryException;
public class AddReportResources
{
private static boolean debug = true;
private static final int master_connection_timeout = 24 * 60 * 60;
private static ITeamRepository productionServer = null;
private static IProcessClientService prodprocessClient = null;
private static class LoginHandler implements ILoginHandler, ILoginInfo
{
private String fUserId;
private String fPassword;
private LoginHandler(String userId, String password) {
fUserId = userId;
fPassword = password;
}
public String getUserId() {
return fUserId;
}
public String getPassword() {
return fPassword;
}
public ILoginInfo challenge(ITeamRepository repository) {
return this;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
boolean result;
if (debug)
System.out.println("starting up\n");
TeamPlatform.startup();
if (debug)
System.out.println("platform started\n");
try
{
result = run(args);
}
catch (Exception x)
{
x.printStackTrace();
result = false;
}
finally
{
TeamPlatform.shutdown();
}
if (!result)
System.exit(1);
}
private static boolean run(String[] args) throws TeamRepositoryException {
boolean rc = false;
if (debug)
System.out.println("run started\n");
if (args.length < 4)
{
System.out
.println("Usage: AddReportResources <repositoryuri> <userid> <password> <projectarea>");
return false;
}
// get all the user passed arguments
String productionURI = args[0];
String produserId = args[1];
String prodpassword = args[2];
String prodprojectAreaName = args[3];
try
{
productionServer = TeamPlatform.getTeamRepositoryService().getTeamRepository(productionURI);
if (debug)
System.out.println("logging in\n");
productionServer.registerLoginHandler(new LoginHandler(produserId, prodpassword));
productionServer.setConnectionTimeout(master_connection_timeout);
productionServer.login(null);
if (debug)
System.out.println("logged in\n");
prodprocessClient = (IProcessClientService) productionServer
.getClientLibrary(IProcessClientService.class);
URI produri = URI.create(prodprojectAreaName.replaceAll(" ", "%20"));
IProjectArea iprja_prod = (IProjectArea) prodprocessClient.findProcessArea(produri, null, null);
if (iprja_prod != null)
{
iprja_prod=(IProjectArea) iprja_prod.getWorkingCopy();
IReportManager irptMgr = ((IReportManager) productionServer.getClientLibrary(IReportManager.class));
System.out.println("repository server name="+productionServer.getName());
List<IReportDescriptor> missingreports = irptMgr.fetchMissingSharedReportDescriptors(
(IProcessAreaHandle) iprja_prod.getItemHandle(), null);
System.out.println("there are "+missingreports.size()+" missing report definitions");
for (IReportDescriptor report : missingreports)
{
try
{
if(debug)
System.out.println("adding resport='"+report.getId()+"'");
report = (IReportDescriptor) report.getWorkingCopy();
irptMgr.saveReportDescriptor(report, null);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("cause=" +e.getClass().toString());
System.out.println("adding report resporce failed for report="+report.getName()+ " exception="+e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
return(false);
}
}
}
else
System.out.println("Project area not found = '"+prodprojectAreaName+"'");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
System.out.println("utility startup failed exception="+ex.getMessage());
}
return rc;
}
}
Comments
I also wrote an RFE
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=46556
1 vote
Comments
Lukas Steiger
May 15 '14, 2:53 a.m.The code below does the same as the 'provided by application' in Jazz. Using the Java API, is there also a way to select a project area to deploy from instead of 'provided by application'?