Batch deploy report units into Jasper server

[zhigang.yang]

We created a bunch of JRXML reports in Jasper Studio, and I want to upload them into Jasper server. instead of manually publish one by one in Jasper studio. is there another way to do it automatically, just like one command. and we also want to deal with reports deployment on diferents environments (development, pre production, production). a expected way is we can firstly test reports in development environment, if all ok, we can easily deploy all reports into pre production and then production. 

I do want to use import, looks like importing need to restart the Japser server, and we also want to support cluster platform.

Thanks

[hozawa]

Reply to your 2nd question. No, import/export do not require server restart.

[zhigang.yang]

Thanks @hozawa, good to know this. Is it suit to Jasper server cluster?

I just read before in http://community.jaspersoft.com/documentation/jasperreports-server-administration-guide/v550/import-and-export-through-command-line,   

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JasperReports server should be stopped when using the import and export utilities. This is very important for the import utility to avoid issues with caches, configuration, and security.

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[hozawa]

Use the Web-UI import instead of command line.

It depends on how you cluster. How you cluster depends on what kind of report you're going to use. Recommend using clustering using Application Server but this doesn't work too well with large reports.

[zhigang.yang]

Yes, we decide to use application serer as a load balance.  you means `large reports` is big one report or reports number is huge?

and we also are investigating docker for Jasper, is there suggestion here?

[zhigang.yang]

and how about using Import REST API to replace to use Web-UI for importing?