Report/jasperserver: pdf filename

[horvatj]

Dear forum members,

I have a report designed with iReport and executed by jasperserver, whcih works fine! If I let the output be a pdf (output=pdf), how may I determine the filename of the pdf?

Best regards,

Johann

[anandharaj]

DO you mean when user execute a report from JS, the default output should be PDF instead of HTML?

[horvatj]

Yes, I call the report like this:

http://www.myserver.com:8080/jasperserver/flow.html?_flowId=viewReportFlow&reportUnit=/reports/customer1/report1&ParentFolderUri=/reports/customer1&output=pdf&j_username=reportuser&j_password=mpf&report_locale=de_AT&PK=258&LOGO=no

And this always gives a report1.pdf back to the browser. Is there a way to change this by passing a parameter to jasperserver?

 

Best regards,

Johann

[horvatj]

And: btw user ID & password are shown in the URL in cleartext. How to deal with it? Is there a better solution?

[swood]

You can't change the name of the PDF - that's how Acrobat does things.

Do you not want security? Try this http://jasperforge.org/plugins/espforum/view.php?group_id=112&forumid=102&topicid=50689

 

Sherman

Jaspersoft

[horvatj]

swood,

 

Sorry, I can't agree with this:

The file sent from jasperserver has nothing to do with an acrobat. Even if you use a text based browser like lynx, which does not make use of any acrobat plugins, you will get a pdf file named like the report is named.

 

So this is definately set inside the jasperserver code. Last year I wrote java code like this:

if(parameterRequest.contains("pdf")){
            byte[] pdfFile=getReportPdf(reportFile.toString(),parameters);
            if(pdfFile!=null&&pdfFile.length>0){
                resp.setContentType("application/pdf");
                resp.setContentLength(pdfFile.length);
                resp.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename=""
                        +parameterFilename+".pdf"");
                ServletOutputStream ouputStream=resp.getOutputStream();
                ouputStream.write(pdfFile,0,pdfFile.length);
                ouputStream.flush();
                ouputStream.close();
            }
        }
My simple Servlet ran inside a tomcat and you had to pass an parameter to it to assign the filename...

 

I can't believe that there is no way to set the filename of the pdf file stream sent to the browser...

And I think that this should be a common problem, no? Or do you always store your downloaded reports just with the reportname.pdf?

 

Best regards

Johann

[lucianc]

horvatj
Wrote:

I can't believe that there is no way to set the filename of the pdf file stream sent to the browser... And I think that this should be a common problem, no? Or do you always store your downloaded reports just with the reportname.pdf?

No, there is no way to specify an arbitrary name for the PDF.  This might not be a very common request, since it's the first time I hear about it.

In any case, log a feature request for this.

Regards,

Lucian