Jasper Reports is a superb open source alternative to Crystal Reports. It's great for single page PDF pages such as letters & invoices to multi-page reports. However it's not very .NET friendly, and getting C#/Mono to play nice with JasperServer has not been fruitful.
Has anyone got any code samples of how to run a report on JasperServer from C#, and attach an XML dataset with the SOAP request? It needs to work on Mono, so Microsoft.Web.Services2 is out of the question.
I had a go at trying to roll my own soap request. Jasper Server seems to accept it, but I cant seem to get any response back other than a server 500 error. I didn't get as far as attaching a MTOM attachment.
var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendLine("<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">");
sb.AppendLine("<s:Body s:encodingStyle=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">");
sb.AppendLine("<q1:runReport xmlns:q1=\"http://axis2.ws.jasperserver.jaspersoft.com\">");
sb.AppendLine("<requestXmlString xsi:type=\"xsd:string\">");
sb.AppendLine("<request operationName=\"runReport\" locale=\"en\">");
sb.AppendLine(" <argument name=\"RUN_OUTPUT_FORMAT\">PDF</argument>");
sb.AppendFormat(" <resourceDescriptor name=\"\" wsType=\"\" uriString=\"{0}\" isNew=\"false\">", "/JourneyReport");
sb.AppendLine(" <label>null</label>");
sb.AppendLine(" <parameter name=\"testparam\">1</parameter>");
sb.AppendLine(" </resourceDescriptor>");
sb.AppendLine(" </request>");
sb.AppendLine("</requestXmlString>");
sb.AppendLine("</q1:runReport>");
sb.AppendLine("</s:Body></s:Envelope>");
var webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:8080/jasperserver/services/repository");
webRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("jasperadmin","jasperadmin");
webRequest.PreAuthenticate = true;
webRequest.Headers.Add("SOAPAction","");
//Set HttpWebRequest properties
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sb.ToString());
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
webRequest.ContentType = "text/xml; encoding='utf-8'";
//Get Stream object
var objRequestStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
objRequestStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
objRequestStream.Close();
var response = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();