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Jasper - how to dynamically create chart from JSON or XML fields


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Up until now, I've been using a database connection to populate the data in my reports, which has worked well.  Now I am struggling to get it working with a different type of input.

Ultimately, my goal is to have a Java process which generates an array of values, which it then passes to Jasper to generate a chart in an XLS file.  For example, I may pass in {[0,0],[1,1],[2,2],[3,3]} if I wanted Jasper to generate a straight line.  Each time my Java process runs, the input data will be different, however the structure of the data will be the same.  I am looking into how I can pass in the data using JSON, however I am not tied to that solution.  What is the best way to acheive my goal?  JSON?  XML?  A custom Java class?

As a first step, I've tried to get the Northwind.Customers example to work.  I created a new report in iReport that reads the northwind.json file and that works okay.  However, when I try to call it from Java, no data populates.  What am I doing wrong?

JasperDesign jasperDesign = JRXmlLoader.load("path\to\designFile");
JasperReport jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReport(jasperDesign);
JsonDataSource jsonDataSource = new JsonDataSource(new File("path\to\northwind.json"));
JasperPrint  jasperPrintNew  = JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport, h2, jsonDataSource);

Thank you

 

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