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Combining custom emitters and report items [message #735801]

Wed, 12 October 2011 14:30

Eclipse User

Looking at IContentEmitter interface, it seems to only support emitting built-in report items Sad

Is this correct? Is there some way to write an emitter extension and a report item extension which work together?

Re: Combining custom emitters and report items [message #735818 is a reply to message #735801]

Wed, 12 October 2011 15:16

Eclipse User

As part of your new report item you should be setting an output type:

public interface IReportItemPresentation
{

public static int OUTPUT_NONE = 0;
public static int OUTPUT_AS_IMAGE = 1;
public static int OUTPUT_AS_TEXT = 2;
public static int OUTPUT_AS_HTML_TEXT = 3;
public static int OUTPUT_AS_DRAWING = 4;
public static int OUTPUT_AS_CUSTOM = 5;
public static int OUTPUT_AS_IMAGE_WITH_MAP = 6;
public static int OUTPUT_AS_UNKNOWN = 7;

If you set it to HTML_TEXT the startForeign should be called in your
emitter.

Jason

On 10/12/2011 2:30 PM, Alexey Romanov wrote:
> Looking at
> http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.birt.doc.isv%2Fengine%2Fapi%2Forg%2Feclipse%2Fbirt%2Freport%2Fengine%2Femitter%2FIContentEmitter.html
> interface, it seems to only support emitting built-in report items :( Is
> this correct? Is there some way to write an emitter extension and a
> report item extension which work together?

Re: Combining custom emitters and report items [message #735828 is a reply to message #735818]

Wed, 12 October 2011 16:16

Eclipse User

That's perfect (I expect the same happens with OUTPUT_AS_CUSTOM and OUTPUT_AS_UNKNOWN?)! Though I am not sure what precisely "the PDF writer output the standard content" in IForeignContent documentation means.

Re: Combining custom emitters and report items [message #736102 is a reply to message #735828]

Thu, 13 October 2011 11:16

Eclipse User

I believe this means the pdf emitter will just output the text, whereas
html for foreign content can be emitted in html. Have you tried it?

Jason

On 10/12/2011 4:16 PM, Alexey Romanov wrote:
> That's perfect (I expect the same happens with OUTPUT_AS_CUSTOM and
> OUTPUT_AS_UNKNOWN?)! Though I am not sure what precisely "the PDF writer
> output the standard content" in IForeignContent documentation means.

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