templating and post-processing

[2006 IR Open Discussion]

By: Ryan Fruit - rfruit

templating and post-processing

2003-12-19 13:05

I recently finished work on a project using Jasper Reports with positive results (good work Teodor Jasper Reports is great). Now that I have a pretty decent grasp on how things work I'd like to build my own little reporting framework using JR that allows for the following 2 features (among others):

 

1. simple report templating - a lot of my reports have parts that could be templated and reused. Does anyone have an example of how to break report pieces into separate files and assemble them at runtime?

 

2. post-processing of reports - to detect certain post-filling states and apply other complex modifications to the report after it's filled. Is there, for example, a better way to alter the filled report than simply iterating through pages/elements and trying to figure out which element is which by looking at position, text content, etc? Is there a way to name an element/column so I can easily get it from the filled report object?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.