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.editors/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/designer/ui/editors/MultiPageReportEditor.java
fIsHandlingActivation = true;
		try
		{
			
			
		}
		finally
		{
			fIsHandlingActivation = false;
		}
	}
	/**
	 * check the input is modify by file system.
	 * 
	 * @param input
	 */
	protected void sanityCheckState( IEditorInput input )
	{
		if ( fModificationStamp == -1 )
		{
			fModificationStamp = getModificationStamp( input );
		}
		long stamp = getModificationStamp( input );
		if ( stamp != fModificationStamp )
		{
			
			
			fModificationStamp = stamp;
			handleEditorInputChanged( );
		}