[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Returning report in non HttpServlet stream

[Tom Corcoran <tom.corcoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bingo, works like a charm. Thanks Jason.

Jason Weathersby wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Try a ByteArrayOutputStream
>
>     ByteArrayOutputStream ostream = new ByteArrayOutputStream( );
>     options.setOutputStream( ostream );
>
> Jason
>
> Tom Corcoran wrote:
> > I am using gsp/grails. I have been unable to figure out how to get a 
> > report to return in a function as a html stream.
> >
> > The WebReport example at 
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Servlet_Example_(BIRT)_2.1 extends HttpServlet 
> > and uses HttpServletResponse for the output stream, which is not 
> > relevant for me.
> >
> > I have ended up saving to a html file
> >
> >         HTMLRenderOption options = new HTMLRenderOption();
> >         options.setOutputFileName(outputFile);
> >         options.setOutputFormat(HTMLRenderOption.OUTPUT_FORMAT_HTML);
> >         options.setEmbeddable(true);
> >         options.setImageDirectory("images");
> >
> > and then reading this back into memory. How can i bypass this step? 
> > perhaps using ByteArrayInputStream?
> >
> > Thanks, Tom.