Bug 116706 Bad Class Cast in IDEReportEditor.java
So I'm trying to open a report with BIRT/Eclipse API using the BIRT 2.0 nightly build code (as of 11/16/2005). the file IDEReportEditor.java method private IFile getFile( IEditorInput input ) { return ( (ReportFileEditorInput) input ).getFile( ); } However, input can be ReportEditorInput which is also an IEditorInput (to support reports found outside projects and workspaces) which doesn't even have a getFile() method on it. This causes a deeply nested exception that causes the report desinger to not be able to show a report that might be physically located outside a workspace.
UI/org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/designer/internal/ui/util/UIUtil.java
{
						IFolder folder = root.getFolder( path.removeLastSegments( i ) );
						if ( !folder.exists( ) )
						{
							folder.create( false, true, monitor );
						}
					}
				}
				folderHandle.create( false, true, monitor );
			}
		}
		catch ( CoreException e )
		{
			
			
			if ( e.getStatus( ).getCode( ) == IResourceStatus.PATH_OCCUPIED )
				folderHandle.refreshLocal( IResource.DEPTH_INFINITE,
						new SubProgressMonitor( monitor, 500 ) );
			else
				throw e;
		}
		if ( monitor.isCanceled( ) )
			throw new OperationCanceledException( );
	}
	/**
	 * @return Report Designer UI plugin installation directory as OS string.
	 */
	public static String getHomeDirectory( )
	{
		URL url = ReportPlugin.getDefault( ).getBundle( ).getEntry( "/" );