I have a list of goals, each of which have another arraylist in it. I want to have the details in the child arraylist to be displayed using a subreport. I would like to have a subreport for each of the objects in the child arraylist.
The issue I am facing is that, I can't seem to find a way to specify the arraylist as data source for the subreport. When trying to create datasource, I can't select fields of the dataset on which the list is built, only the fields of the main report can be selected.
Is it possible to do this in iReport.? I am stuck with this for quite some time now. Any help is appreciated. :)
With information given this would be the answer.
Main bean (your goals?), containing List
of other bean (SubBean
).
public class Bean {
private String var1;
private List<SubBean> subBeans;
public String getVar1() {
return var1;
}
public void setVar1(String var1) {
this.var1 = var1;
}
public List<SubBean> getSubBeans() {
return subBeans;
}
public void setSubBeans(List<SubBean> subBean) {
this.subBeans = subBean;
}
}
Sub bean
public class SubBean {
private String var2;
public SubBean(String var2){
this.var2 = var2;
}
public String getVar2() {
return var2;
}
public void setVar2(String var2) {
this.var2 = var2;
}
}
How to pass the SubBean List to a subreport.
You need the field subBeans in you main report.
<field name="subBeans" class="java.util.List"/>
I suggest that you pass the location of the .jasper file as a parameter (Note jasper report needs absolute path) es. in main report
<parameter name="SUBREPORT_DIR" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false"/>
and in java pass it (in example sub folder "jasper" in working directory is the location of the subreport.jasper)
paramMap.put("SUBREPORT_DIR", new File("jasper").getAbsolutePath() + File.separator);
Now just call your subreport (needs to be complied into .jasper) from main report like this.
<subreport>
<reportElement x="105" y="4" width="400" height="100"/>
<dataSourceExpression><![CDATA[new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRBeanCollectionDataSource($F{subBeans})]]></dataSourceExpression>
<subreportExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "subreport.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>
</subreport>
Hence:
I'm creating a new JRDataSource for the sub report passing the List
of SubBean
in the current Bean
new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRBeanCollectionDataSource($F{subBeans})
indicating the absolute location of the compiled subreport.jasper
$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "subreport.jasper"
so now in your subreport you can use the field: var2
of the SubBean
, just define it like this in the subreport.jrxml
<field name="var2" class="java.lang.String"/>