I am working with Spring MVC 3 and JasperReports. I've created some great PDF and Xls reports without a problem. What I would like to do is display the created HTML report on screen for the user as a preview of the report they are getting, wrapped in the website template. Is there a way to do this?
I haven't found any tutorials/articles on this subject, I did find a book on JasperReports 3.5 for Java Developers that kind a addressed this. (I'm a noob on this so bear with me.) My understanding of this is that I have to redirect the input stream to the browser. I figure that there must be an easier way! And a way to strip the HTML report header and footer from it.
Any help would be appreciated!
Instead of using another framework to solve my problem. I solved it like this:
@RequestMapping(value = "/report", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String htmlReport(@RequestParam(value = "beginDate") Date begin,
@RequestParam(value = "endDate", required = false) Date end,
ModelMap map) {
try {
// Setup my data connection
OracleDataSource ds = new OracleDataSource();
ds.setURL("jdbc:oracle:thin:user/password@10.10.10.10:1521:tst3");
Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
// Get the jasper report object located in package org.dphhs.tarts.reports
// Load it
InputStream reportStream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("reports/tartsCostAllocation.jasper");
JasperReport jasperReport = (JasperReport) JRLoader.loadObject(reportStream);
// Populate report with data
JasperPrint jasperPrint =
JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport, new HashMap(), conn);
// Create report exporter to be in Html
JRExporter exporter = new JRHtmlExporter();
// Create string buffer to store completed report
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
// Setup report, no header, no footer, no images for layout
exporter.setParameter(JRHtmlExporterParameter.HTML_HEADER, "");
exporter.setParameter(JRHtmlExporterParameter.HTML_FOOTER, "");
exporter.setParameter(JRHtmlExporterParameter.IS_USING_IMAGES_TO_ALIGN, Boolean.FALSE);
// When report is exported send to string buffer
exporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.OUTPUT_STRING_BUFFER, sb);
exporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.JASPER_PRINT, jasperPrint);
// Export the report, store to sb
exporter.exportReport();
// Use Jsoup to clean the report table html to output to browser
Whitelist allowedHtml = new Whitelist();
allowedHtml.addTags("table", "tr", "td", "span");
allowedHtml.addTags("table", "style", "cellpadding", "cellspacing", "border", "bgcolor");
allowedHtml.addAttributes("tr", "valign");
allowedHtml.addAttributes("td", "colspan", "style");
allowedHtml.addAttributes("span", "style");
String html = Jsoup.clean(sb.toString(), allowedHtml);
// Add report to map
map.addAttribute("report", html);
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
return "costallocation/report";
}