Deployment of Jasper Resources - Best Practices

[volkerr]

Hello,

I am looking for  best practices regarding the deployment of jasper resources that are kept in subversion.

We are keeping our sources (jasper resources like reports, dashboards, domains) in subversion. Is there a way to take these sources from the svn and deploy them to JasperServer directly , e. g. is there an ant target or sth. else? Or is there a way to create a JasperRepository file and use the import functionality to add or update resources in JasperServer?

What is the best way to manage JasperServer resources combined with svn?

Suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers, Volker.

[swood]

We do this all the time internally.

 

Use the import/export facility. Export out of the repository into your local SVN copy and check that in. We have found it easier to have the individual resources in SVN, but you may want to export ZIP files, rather than individual resources.

 

Have a look at the unit tests. There are examples there of code that will import/export with a repository. You can have your resources be imported into the repository as part of your build or unit tests. Or you can use the import from the command line.

 

Sherman

Jaspersoft