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create a report in code [message #518045] Tue, 02 March 2010 20:44 Go to next message
Robert Jenkin is currently offline Robert JenkinFriend
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I like to know if it is possible (any sample helpful) to create a report in java code, ie without a pre-existing report file.
Re: create a report in code [message #518087 is a reply to message #518045] Wed, 03 March 2010 00:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ivan Hoe is currently offline Ivan HoeFriend
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As far as I know, the Design API is what you want.

Unfortunately I've find the available info to be obscure and not very helpful.

If its helpful to you, check this out where you may find some examples and a bit of resources.

Hope that helps.
Re: create a report in code [message #518211 is a reply to message #518045] Wed, 03 March 2010 13:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Carl Emmoth is currently offline Carl EmmothFriend
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Robert Jenkin wrote on Tue, 02 March 2010 15:44
I like to know if it is possible (any sample helpful) to create a report in java code, ie without a pre-existing report file.


Yes it would be very good to see an example of a table with a chart for instance. There is simply no good documentation of the Chart API.

Just a "Hello World"-chart that works would be great!

Here is an example that is pretty good:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Java_-_Build_Dynamic_Table_%28BIRT%2 9

And I'm trying right now to connect it to a chart but with no success. If there are any help, please advice!

Re: create a report in code [message #518314 is a reply to message #518211] Wed, 03 March 2010 17:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
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I did a webinar on the DE-API

http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/news-events/resources/?artic leid=17456

Take a look at these examples from the webinar:

http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports /409-deapi-examples-from-birt-exchange-webinar/#description

I also did one on the chart api:

http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/info/chartingapi-websem/

You may want to look over the list:
http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/news-events/webinars/archive d-webinars/


There are also plenty of examples in the dev share at birt-exchange

Attached is a simple example that creates a chart:

Jason


import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.Chart;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.ChartWithAxes;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.attribute.AxisType;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.attribute.DataType;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.attribute.GroupingUnitType;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.attribute.IntersectionType;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.attribute.SortOption;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.attribute.TickStyle;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.attribute.impl.ColorDefinitionI mpl;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.component.Axis;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.component.Series;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.component.impl.SeriesImpl;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.Query;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.SeriesDefinition;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.SeriesGrouping;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.impl.QueryImpl;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.impl.SeriesDefinitionImpl;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.impl.ChartWithAxesImpl;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.layout.Plot;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.type.LineSeries;
import org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.type.impl.LineSeriesImpl;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.framework.Platform;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.script.ScriptExpression;
import org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.api.querydefn.ComputedColumn;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ComputedColumnHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DataSetHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DesignConfig;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DesignFileException;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ElementFactory;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ExtendedItemHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.IDesignEngine;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.IDesignEngineFactory;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.OdaDataSetHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.OdaDataSourceHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.PropertyHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ReportDesignHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.ScriptDataSetHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.SessionHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.SimpleMasterPageHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.StructureFactory;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.activity.SemanticException ;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.command.ContentException;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.command.NameException;
import
org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.elements.structures.Proper tyBinding;

import com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale;


public class SimpleChart

{

private ReportDesignHandle reportDesignHandle = null;

private ElementFactory elementFactory = null;

private OdaDataSourceHandle odaDataSourceHandle = null;

private String dataSourceName = "datasource";

private String dataSetName = "maindataset";
private SessionHandle sessionHandle =null;

private String query = "SELECT SIMS.ROLES.\"CREATOR\",
SIMS.ROLES.\"RID\" FROM SIMS.ROLES";
org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.elements.structures.Comput edColumn
cs1, cs2 = null;

public static void main(String args[])

{
try {

new SimpleChart().createReport();

} catch (Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

}


public void createReport() throws SemanticException, IOException

{
System.out.println("Start");
init();

createMasterPages();

//createDataSources();

//createDataSets();

buildDataSource();
buildDataSet();

createBody();

String outputPath = "C:/work";
reportDesignHandle.saveAs("output/desample/simplechart.rptdesign ");
try
{
reportDesignHandle = sessionHandle.openDesign(
"output/desample/simplechart.rptdesign" );//$NON-NLS-1$
}
catch ( DesignFileException e )
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace( );
}
ExtendedItemHandle eih = (ExtendedItemHandle)
reportDesignHandle.getBody( )
.getContents( ).get( 0 );
for ( Iterator iter = eih.getColumnBindings( )
.iterator( ); iter.hasNext( ); )
{
ComputedColumnHandle cch = (ComputedColumnHandle) iter.next( );
//if( cch.getExpression().contains("_Sum") ){
//cch.drop();
//}else{
System.out.println("opened report "+cch.getExpression());
//}
}

//reportDesignHandle.save();

System.out.println("End");

}


private void init(){


DesignConfig config = new DesignConfig( );

config.setBIRTHome("C:/birt/birt-runtime-2_5_0/birt-runtime-2_5_0/ReportEngine ");
IDesignEngine engine = null;

try {

Platform.startup(config);

IDesignEngineFactory factory = (IDesignEngineFactory) Platform


..createFactoryObject(IDesignEngineFactory.EXTENSION_DESIGN_ ENGINE_FACTORY);

engine = factory.createDesignEngine(config);

} catch (Exception ex) {

ex.printStackTrace();

}


// we need a handle of session of design engine

sessionHandle = engine.newSessionHandle(ULocale.ENGLISH);

reportDesignHandle = sessionHandle.createDesign();

elementFactory = reportDesignHandle.getElementFactory();

}


private void createMasterPages() throws ContentException, NameException

{

SimpleMasterPageHandle simpleMasterPage =
elementFactory.newSimpleMasterPage("Master Page");

reportDesignHandle.getMasterPages().add(simpleMasterPage);

}

void buildDataSource( ) throws SemanticException
{

OdaDataSourceHandle dsHandle = elementFactory.newOdaDataSource(
"Data Source", "org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc" );
dsHandle.setProperty( "odaDriverClass",
"org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.sampledb.Driver" );
dsHandle.setProperty( "odaURL", "jdbc:classicmodels:sampledb" );
dsHandle.setProperty( "odaUser", "ClassicModels" );
dsHandle.setProperty( "odaPassword", "" );

PropertyBinding pb = new PropertyBinding();

reportDesignHandle.getDataSources( ).add( dsHandle );

}

void buildDataSet( ) throws SemanticException
{

OdaDataSetHandle dsHandle = elementFactory.newOdaDataSet( dataSetName,
"org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc.JdbcSelectDataSet" );
dsHandle.setDataSource( "Data Source" );
String qry = "Select PRODUCTCODE, QUANTITYORDERED from orderdetails
where ordernumber = 10104";

dsHandle.setQueryText( qry );
reportDesignHandle.getDataSets( ).add( dsHandle );




}
private void createDataSets() throws SemanticException

{

String dataSetType =
"org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc.JdbcSelectDataSet";

OdaDataSetHandle dataSetHandle = null;

dataSetHandle = elementFactory.newOdaDataSet(dataSetName,
dataSetType);

dataSetHandle.setDataSource(dataSourceName);

dataSetHandle.setQueryText(query);

reportDesignHandle.getDataSets().add(dataSetHandle);

}


private void createDataSources() throws SemanticException

{

// type of the data source

String extensionID = "org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc";

String driverClassName = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";

String driverURL = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.174.25:1521:BDEV";

String userName = "mferdous";

String userPassword = "anabase";


// now make a data source with the dataSourceName and extensionID.

odaDataSourceHandle =
elementFactory.newOdaDataSource(dataSourceName,
extensionID);

odaDataSourceHandle.setProperty("odaDriverClass", driverClassName);

odaDataSourceHandle.setProperty("odaURL", driverURL);

odaDataSourceHandle.setProperty("odaUser", userName);

odaDataSourceHandle.setProperty("odaPassword", userPassword);

reportDesignHandle.getDataSources().add(odaDataSourceHandle) ;

}


private void createBody() throws SemanticException

{
ExtendedItemHandle extendedItemHandle =
elementFactory.newExtendedItem("Simple Chart", "Chart");
extendedItemHandle.setWidth("700px");
extendedItemHandle.setHeight("500px");

extendedItemHandle.setProperty(ExtendedItemHandle.DATA_SET_P ROP,
dataSetName);
extendedItemHandle.setProperty("outputFormat","GIF");



Chart c = createChart();

extendedItemHandle.getReportItem().setProperty(
"chart.instance", c );

reportDesignHandle.getBody().add(extendedItemHandle);


//PropertyHandle computedSet = extendedItemHandle.getColumnBindings( );
//computedSet.clearValue();

cs1 = StructureFactory.createComputedColumn( );
cs1.setName( "PRODUCTCODE" );
cs1.setExpression( "dataSetRow[\"PRODUCTCODE\"]");
cs1.setDataType( "string" );
cs1.setAggregateOn(null);


cs2 = StructureFactory.createComputedColumn( );
cs2.setName( "QUANTITYORDERED" );
cs2.setExpression( "dataSetRow[\"QUANTITYORDERED\"]");
cs2.setDataType( "integer" );

extendedItemHandle.addColumnBinding(cs1, true);
extendedItemHandle.addColumnBinding(cs2, true);


}

private Chart createChart() {

ChartWithAxes cwaLine = ChartWithAxesImpl.create();
cwaLine.setType( "Line Chart" ); //$NON-NLS-1$
cwaLine.setSubType( "Overlay" ); //$NON-NLS-1$
cwaLine.getBlock().getBounds().setWidth(600);
cwaLine.getBlock().getBounds().setHeight(400);

// Plot
cwaLine.getBlock().setBackground( ColorDefinitionImpl.WHITE() );
Plot p = cwaLine.getPlot();
p.getClientArea().setBackground( ColorDefinitionImpl.create(
255, 255,
225 ) );

// Title
cwaLine.getTitle().getLabel().getCaption().setValue("Overlay
test Line Chart" );
cwaLine.getTitle().setVisible(true);

// Legend
cwaLine.getLegend().setVisible( true );


// X-Axis
Axis xAxisPrimary = cwaLine.getPrimaryBaseAxes()[0];
xAxisPrimary.setType( AxisType.TEXT_LITERAL );
//xAxisPrimary.getMajorGrid().setTickStyle(
TickStyle.BELOW_LITERAL );
//xAxisPrimary.getOrigin().setType( IntersectionType.MIN_LITERAL );

// Y-Axis
Axis yAxisPrimary = cwaLine.getPrimaryOrthogonalAxis(
xAxisPrimary );
yAxisPrimary.setType(AxisType.LINEAR_LITERAL);
//yAxisPrimary.getMajorGrid().setTickStyle(
TickStyle.RIGHT_LITERAL );
//yAxisPrimary.getLabel().getCaption().setValue("TEST");
yAxisPrimary.getLabel().setVisible(true);

// X-Series



Series seCategory = SeriesImpl.create( );
// seCategory.setDataSet( categoryValues );

// Set category expression.
seCategory.getDataDefinition( )
.add( QueryImpl.create( "row[\"PRODUCTCODE\"]" ) );

SeriesDefinition sdX = SeriesDefinitionImpl.create( );
sdX.getSeriesPalette( ).shift( 0 );
sdX.setSorting(SortOption.ASCENDING_LITERAL);
// Set default grouping.
SeriesGrouping grouping = sdX.getGrouping( );
grouping.getAggregateExpression();
grouping.setEnabled( true );
grouping.setGroupType( DataType.TEXT_LITERAL );
grouping.setGroupingUnit( GroupingUnitType.STRING_PREFIX_LITERAL );
grouping.setGroupingInterval( 1 );
grouping.setAggregateExpression( "Sum" ); // Set Count aggregation.
//$NON-NLS-1$

xAxisPrimary.getSeriesDefinitions( ).add( sdX );
sdX.getSeries( ).add( seCategory );

// Y-Series
LineSeries bs1 = (LineSeries) LineSeriesImpl.create( );

bs1.getDataDefinition( ).add( QueryImpl.create(
"row[\"QUANTITYORDERED\"]" ) );
bs1.getLabel( ).setVisible( true );


SeriesDefinition sdY = SeriesDefinitionImpl.create( );
sdY.getGrouping().setEnabled(false);
yAxisPrimary.getSeriesDefinitions( ).add( sdY );

sdY.getSeries( ).add( bs1 );


return cwaLine;
}
}



Carl Emmoth wrote:
> Robert Jenkin wrote on Tue, 02 March 2010 15:44
>> I like to know if it is possible (any sample helpful) to create a
>> report in java code, ie without a pre-existing report file.
>
>
> Yes it would be very good to see an example of a table with a chart for
> instance. There is simply no good documentation of the Chart API.
>
> Just a "Hello World"-chart that works would be great!
>
> Here is an example that is pretty good:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Java_-_Build_Dynamic_Table_%28BIRT%2 9
>
> And I'm trying right now to connect it to a chart but with no success.
> If there are any help, please advice!
>
>
Re: create a report in code [message #518599 is a reply to message #518314] Thu, 04 March 2010 15:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Carl Emmoth is currently offline Carl EmmothFriend
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All right I finally got it to work!

http://pastebin.com/VUvyDsgW

It took a long time to see the problems, but this is what the application does:

1) Fully configurable paths and database selection
2) Make charts (pie, line and 3d bars)
3) Save it to design, report and html
4) View the html in a JEditorPane

The application will use the test database to retrieve data with some restrictions. Only the two first columns from the sql-selection will be used, and the first one must be in string-format.

You need to include the follwing jar-files (included in birt engine, model and chart api):
engineapi.jar
coreapi.jar
com.ibm.icu...jar
modelapi.jar
js.jar
org.apache.commons.codec...jar
org.eclipse.birt.chart.engine...jar
org.eclipse.birt.chart.reportitem.source...jar
org.eclipse.emf.ecore...jar
org.eclipse.emf.common...jar
org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi...jar
scriptapi.jar

Ignore the icons or make your own (png-files made in paint).
Re: create a report in code [message #518639 is a reply to message #518599] Thu, 04 March 2010 11:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
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Carl,

If would be good if you could add your example to Birt-Exchange.com dev
share.

Jason

Carl Emmoth wrote:
> All right I finally got it to work!
>
> http://pastebin.com/VUvyDsgW
>
> It took a long time to see the problems, but this is what the
> application does:
>
> 1) Fully configurable paths and database selection
> 2) Make charts (pie, line and 3d bars)
> 3) Save it to design, report and html
> 4) View the html in a JEditorPane
>
> The application will use the test database to retrieve data with some
> restrictions. Only the two first columns from the sql-selection will be
> used, and the first one must be in string-format.
>
> You need to include the follwing jar-files (included in birt engine,
> model and chart api):
> engineapi.jar
> coreapi.jar
> com.ibm.icu...jar
> modelapi.jar
> js.jar
> org.apache.commons.codec...jar
> org.eclipse.birt.chart.engine...jar
> org.eclipse.birt.chart.reportitem.source...jar
> org.eclipse.emf.ecore...jar
> org.eclipse.emf.common...jar
> org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi...jar
> scriptapi.jar
>
> Ignore the icons or make your own (png-files made in paint).
Re: create a report in code [message #518853 is a reply to message #518639] Fri, 05 March 2010 10:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Carl Emmoth is currently offline Carl EmmothFriend
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Done.

The code works but is ugly. Easy job to fix though.

http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports /1171-charts-example-with-jdbc/#description

Re: create a report in code [message #519036 is a reply to message #518853] Fri, 05 March 2010 19:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
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Thanks for doing this

Carl Emmoth wrote:
> Done.
>
> The code works but is ugly. Easy job to fix though.
>
> http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports
> /1171-charts-example-with-jdbc/#description
>
>
Re: create a report in code [message #527053 is a reply to message #519036] Tue, 13 April 2010 20:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Robert Jenkin is currently offline Robert JenkinFriend
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I have been playing around with this sample and got it working.

I figured out how to change to landscape and how to change the sizes of the data columns.

I changed the output to pdf.

now I am trying to figure out how to change the font used by the report, any ideas?

thanks

bob
Re: create a report in code [message #527255 is a reply to message #527053] Wed, 14 April 2010 15:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
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Bob,

You can set properties directly
data = elementFactory.newDataItem( null );
data.setProperty( StyleHandle.FONT_FAMILY_PROP,"Arial");

or modify the default report style property
reportDesignHandle.findStyle("report").setProperty(StyleHandle.FONT_FAMILY_PROP,
"Arial");

or use a new style. To create a style use the ElementFactory like:

private void createStyles( ) throws SemanticException
{
StyleHandle labelStyle = elementFactory.newStyle( "Label" );
labelStyle.setProperty( StyleHandle.FONT_WEIGHT_PROP,
DesignChoiceConstants.FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD );
labelStyle.setProperty( StyleHandle.FONT_FAMILY_PROP, "Arial Black" );
labelStyle.setProperty( StyleHandle.COLOR_PROP, "#008000" );

StyleHandle dataStyle = elementFactory.newStyle( "Data" );
dataStyle.setProperty( StyleHandle.FONT_WEIGHT_PROP,
DesignChoiceConstants.FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD );
dataStyle.setProperty( StyleHandle.FONT_FAMILY_PROP, "Century"
);//$NON-NLS-1$
dataStyle.setProperty( StyleHandle.COLOR_PROP, "#009B9B" );

reportDesignHandle.getStyles( ).add( labelStyle );
reportDesignHandle.getStyles( ).add( dataStyle );
}

Then set the style on an element like:

CellHandle tcell = (CellHandle) header.getCells( ).get( 0 );
LabelHandle label = elementFactory.newLabel( null );
label.setText( "Product" );
label.setStyleName( "Label" );
tcell.getContent( ).add( label );


Jason

Robert Jenkin wrote:
> I have been playing around with this sample and got it working.
> I figured out how to change to landscape and how to change the sizes of
> the data columns.
> I changed the output to pdf.
>
> now I am trying to figure out how to change the font used by the report,
> any ideas?
>
> thanks
>
> bob
Re: create a report in code [message #658610 is a reply to message #518853] Wed, 09 March 2011 09:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Carl Emmoth is currently offline Carl EmmothFriend
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Here's a updated link:

"Charts Example with JDBC"

Home / DevShare / Deploying BIRT Reports

http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/devshare/deploying-birt-rep orts/1171-charts-example-with-jdbc/

And Pastbin:

http://pastebin.com/VUvyDsgW

[Updated on: Wed, 09 March 2011 09:18]

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Re: create a report in code [message #658717 is a reply to message #658610] Wed, 09 March 2011 15:27 Go to previous message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
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Thanks for posting.

Jason

On 3/9/2011 4:17 AM, Carl Emmoth wrote:
> Here's a updated link:
>
> "Charts Example with JDBC"
>
> Home / DevShare / Deploying BIRT Reports
> http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/devshare/deploying-birt-rep orts/1171-charts-example-with-jdbc/
>
>
>
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