Question

I have a pretty basic understanding of actionscript and how to write a little bit of code with it, but I’m struggling on how to attack this problem.

We have a application that runs a bunch of BIRT reports. They are currently stored in a reports/ folder. Lately we’ve been getting more and more and we need to refactor these into subfolders for the various departments.

Reports/
    Campus 1/
        Budget Office/
             report1.rptdesign
             report2.rptdesign
        Human Resources/
    Campus 2
    Campus 3

How can I get a path name to a specific report if I know the report name and that it is somewhere within the reports/* directory?

For example if the user selected report2.rptdesign, how can I get back the path “reports/campus1/budget office/”?

A url of an example or sample code to at least get me going in the right direction would be a huge help, thanks!

I did find this Flex, AIR: Search for .pdf files in specified folder, not sure if that what I need though.

Answer 1

Rather then having recursive search in java, try increasing a filed in DB. This approach will be better.You will be calling the service from flex to get the reports from server which will return you a Collection some what like this sample.

    <reports>
    <report>
        <fileName> report1.rptdesign</fileName>
        <filePath>Campus 1/Budget Office/report1.rptdesign</filePath>
    </report>
    <report>
        <fileName> report1.rptdesign</fileName>
        <filePath>Campus 1/Human Resources/report1.rptdesign</filePath>
    </report>
    <report>
        <fileName> report1.rptdesign</fileName>
        <filePath>Campus 2/Budget Office/report1.rptdesign</filePath>
    </report>
    <report>
        <fileName> report1.rptdesign</fileName>
        <filePath>Campus 2/Human Resources/report1.rptdesign</filePath>
    </report>
</reports>

this will save one call to sever on user interaction.