Bug 176107 row.__rownum cannot be directly used as group key
Create a table that bind it to a data set. Insert a group. For the Group On field, click on the "..." button to edit the expression, and select from "Availble Column Bindings" | "Table" | "RowNum". This creates a Group On Expression "row.__rownum". The resulting report design cannot be run. It produces error: Column binding "row.__rownum" does not exist. To workaround this, one must create another binding on the table and set its expression to "row.__rownum", then use the new binding as group key. This should not have been necessary. The "__rownum" binding should be implicitly available in all contexts that have a data set. E.g., it should be usable directly as group key, sort key, and in conditional format expressions, etc. Attached is a sample report that produces the error.
data/org.eclipse.birt.data/src/org/eclipse/birt/data/engine/expression/ExpressionCompilerUtil.java
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package org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.expression;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.data.ExpressionUtil;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.data.IColumnBinding;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.exception.BirtException;
import org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.api.IBaseExpression;
import org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.api.IConditionalExpression;
import org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.api.IScriptExpression;
import org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.core.DataException;
import org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.ExprManager;
import org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.aggregation.AggregateRegistry;
import org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.aggregation.BuiltInAggregationFactory;
import org.mozilla.javascript.Context;
/**
 * The utility class to provide method for expression compiling
 * 
 */
public class ExpressionCompilerUtil