Using rest ws to run a report from Java

[jazzman]

I'm trying to run a report on jasper server 4.2.1 from java using rest webservice (HttpComponents) and I get:

 

"Invalid resource descriptor"

 

I've attached the code trying to do the put method to get the uuid. Is there something I'm ommiting? From Web Services guide - there's stuff about a "resource descriptor of type reportUnit" that must be included but I can't make sense of what that means. Does anyone know where I'm going wrong? Also is this the best way to run a pdf report from java using REST?

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Post Edited by jazzman at 01/09/2012 20:16

[waalp]

This is how i did it, mind you the code below is code for the play framework, so some methods like the WS.* methods are play framework specific.

First I use the login method, to get a jsession if from the jasperserver. This jsessionid is in our case put in a global String, and added to the headers of all following requests.
Then I run the runReport method with the URI to the report, and the outputformat I want. This returns an xml, wich I parse in the fetchReport method. This method finally
downloads the report I requested.

Hope this helps.

 

Regards,

Peter
 

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Post Edited by waalp at 01/10/2012 11:07