Sort group data in custom sort order

[priyas]

Hello,

 

Is it possible to sort a group's data according to an application specific order?

 

Say I have a table column called "Priority" in the database and it stores text like "P1", "P2", "P3", etc. When I display report in table form, I want to sort these values in a preferred order like "P5", "P1", "P2" etc. This preferred order can be changed at runtime.

 

I know that this can be easily done using "field" function in "Order by" clause. I am looking out for a java solution as the number of records to process in database are more.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Teodor Danciu]

Hi,

 

JasperReports does not perform any sorting on the data it receives. Sorting the data is the responsability of the data source supplier.

If you have an SQL query in the report template, you should use the ORDER BY clause to sort your data.

 

I hope this helps.

Teodor

[priyas]

Teodor,

 

Thanks for the reply. I have one more question.

 

Is there a way to manipulate data after the grouping and before the display? I am able to customize dataset for charts easily using ChartCustomizer. But I don't see any such interception points for groups. We are using groups to display tables.

 

I tried to use scriptlets. The scriptlets define methods like afterGroupInit, beforeGroupInit etc. But I don't have access to resultset or entire dataset.