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How to automate BIRT report generation


Tojan John (1172476) | asked Apr 01 '15, 7:30 a.m.
 I am using BIRT 2.6.2 version in RTC 4.0.4 for report generation. Now I am looking for option to schedule the report generation.  I tried using BIRT runtime genReport option. I am able to run sample report, but if I run real report which needs to be connected to Oracle database is throwing error.

Apr 01, 2015 4:55:28 PM org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.ReportRunner execute
SEVERE: exception in parsing the paramters
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.ReportRunner.execute(ReportRunner.
java:145)
        at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.ReportRunner.main(ReportRunner.jav
a:122)

Need guidance to resolve the issue.

Also, tried running report on tomcat server, that too failed.

Appreciate help on running BIRT outside RTC environment.

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Mathieu Defianas (15942838) | answered Apr 01 '15, 8:47 a.m.
Hello,
I have encountered the same problem and finally, I have used a java program which calls report url with REST API.
Then you execute this java program with a script in a scheduler (crontab or windows tasks).
Regards
Mathieu

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Tojan John commented Apr 01 '15, 9:00 a.m.

 Hi Mathieu,

Thanks for the input. I am not good in Java, can you provide more details on this or shall the Java program?

Regards,
Tojan.


Mathieu Defianas commented Apr 01 '15, 4:05 p.m.

Tojan,
You must use for example the library "httpclient" from apache to send data to RTC with some urls.
Then, read this article (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/rational-team-concert-oslc/ ) to construct your java program.
Last step, you must retrieve the report url with a right click in the web site
Regards,
Mathieu


Monali Jambhulkar commented Aug 11 '16, 6:14 a.m.

 Hi Mathieu,


Could you please help to understand how to use REST API to call report url.

If you have any sample code/application then can you please share with me.

I am new for REST API.

Thanks
Monali

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