Strange behaviour when export to HTML

[aeid]

Hi,

 

I am seeing very strange behaviour when using JRHtmlExporter:

- The report contains special characters like single quotes and non-english characters.

- When the report is generated as HTML through iReport, the characters are displayed correctly.

- When generating the same report through my web application as part of a JSP page, the non-english characters appear as ????? and the single quote is displayed as '

- When generating the same exact report as PDF through the same web application (using JRPdfExporter), all characters are displayed correctly.

- I am using arialuni.ttf for PDF encoding:

Code:

	FontKey key = new FontKey("Arial", false, false);
	PdfFont pdfFont = new PdfFont( reportsPath + "/fonts/arialuni.ttf", "Identity-H", true);
				
	Map fontMap = (Map) pdfExporter.getParameter( JRExporterParameter.FONT_MAP );

- The same web application is displaying non-english characters correctly through other JSPs.

 

All help is highly appreciated.

 

Regards,

 

Ashraf

[martynhiemstra]

That non english characters appear as ?????? is just a encoding problem. You need to learn how to set encoding in your jsp pages.

 

Try this link:

http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=28944

Post edited by: martynhiemstra, at: 2007/07/27 08:38

[aeid]

Thanks Marty for your reply. But as I mentioned in my original post, I already have other JSPs in the SAME web application that are displaying the non-english characters correctly.

Note that the default encoding for JasperReports is UTF-8 which should do the job.

 

Regards,

 

Ashraf

[aeid]

Hi,

 

The non-english characters issue turned out to be an issue with tiles settings.

See http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=539309&start=15

.

 

I am still haviving the problem with the single-quote being translated to '

 

Regards,

 

Ashraf

[lucianc]

aeid wrote:

I am still haviving the problem with the single-quote being translated to &apos

 

This has been fixed in JR 1.3.2.

 

Regards,

Lucian

[aeid]

Hi Lucian,

 

You are right.

The problem is that when I use JR 1.3.4, I get this error during compilation:

Code:

[jasperReportCompile] net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRValidationException: Report design not valid :
[jasperReportCompile] 1. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.speakesl.server.admin.web.esl.reports.ClassesOverallDashboardReportScriplets
[jasperReportCompile] at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRAbstractCompiler.verifyDesign(JRAbstractCompiler.java:260)
[jasperReportCompile] at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRAbstractCompiler.compileReport(JRAbstractCompiler.java:144)
[jasperReportCompile] at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRDefaultCompiler.compileReport(JRDefaultCompiler.java:105)
[jasperReportCompile] at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager.compileReportToFile(JasperCompileManager.java:128)
[jasperReportCompile] at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager.compileReportToFile(JasperCompileManager.java:110)
[jasperReportCompile] at net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask.compile(JRAntCompileTask.java:413)
[jasperReportCompile] at net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask.execute(JRAntCompileTask.java:259)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1216)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1185)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:40)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.EclipseDefaultExecutor.executeTargets(EclipseDefaultExecutor.java:32)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1068)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:423)
[jasperReportCompile] at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.main(InternalAntRunner.java:137)

BUILD FAILED

 

However, if if I move back to JR 1.3.1, I do not get this error.

 

Any ideas?

 

Regards,

 

Ashraf

[aeid]

I have figured out the issue.

It looks that JR 1.3.4 is using CLASSPATH that needs to be set correctly to be able to see the scriplets.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Regards,

 

Ashraf