How to Change SQL in Webi Document Using Java RE SDK

This post briefly describes how to change SQL in Webi document. The following code will work for a Webi document with one simple query (say one object, without subqueries, combined queries, etc):

DocumentInstance widoc = wiRepEngine.openDocument(31223); // 31223 is ID of the webi document
SQLDataProvider sdp = (SQLDataProvider)(widoc.getDataProviders().getItem(0)); 
SQLSelectStatement sss = (SQLSelectStatement)(sdp.getSQLContainer().getChildAt(0));
sss.setSQL("SELECT * FROM (" + sss.getSQL() +") A");
sdp.validateSQL();
sdp.changeSQL();
widoc.save();
widoc.closeDocument();

If the document contained the only object “Resort” from universe “Island Resorts Marketing”, the query was:

SELECT
  Resort.resort
FROM
  Resort

After applying the script the query will become:

Note that this is now a custom query.

Not clear?

Try to start from this: https://bukhantsov.org/2011/08/getting-started-with-businessobjects-java-sdk/ šŸ™‚

2 thoughts on “How to Change SQL in Webi Document Using Java RE SDK

  1. Ablante

    Thanks this is great !!

    Can you tell me why i got the below, when i checked the modified SQL

    SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT
    Resort.resort
    FROM
    Resort
    ) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A) A

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