Jasper report as a black box for PHP

[v.zen]

Hi,

I want to use Jasper Report REST as a black box for "rendering" report. My idea is:

• get some data in json or xml format from my systems
• get a Jasper Report template (done using Jasper Report Studio and saved in a db)
• pass datas and report via REST to Jasper Report server
• get report

:)

Main concept is to pass to server datas (json or xml) and template (.jrml), server don't know data source and hasn't a pre build template. It's act as a black box: get two inputs, put one output. No connection to external systems.

Questions:

• Is this approach correct?
• Where can I look for an example or documentation about this?

Thanks in advance.

v.

[elizam]

The whole purpose of the server is to act as a repository for reports. If you don't want to use that functionality, you'd probably be better off writing your own application directly on JasperReports.

[hozawa]

JasperReports Server holds Jasper Reports templates (jrxml files) in it's database. There's only a need to save your jrxml from Jaspersoft Studio to JasperReports Server and then use the API to generate reports.

[v.zen]

I done all with this: https://github.com/cossou/JasperPHP