Null 'key' argument - Charts

Posted on May 20, 2015 at 4:48am
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My reports is working. But at the moment I add a chart.. I always receive following error:

Null 'key' argument

This is since I upgraded frop iReport to Jaspersoft Studio!

full error message:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null 'key' argument.
at org.jfree.data.DefaultKeyedValues.setValue(DefaultKeyedValues.java:229)
at org.jfree.data.DefaultKeyedValues2D.setValue(DefaultKeyedValues2D.java:337)
at org.jfree.data.DefaultKeyedValues2D.addValue(DefaultKeyedValues2D.java:303)
at org.jfree.data.category.DefaultCategoryDataset.addValue(DefaultCategoryDataset.java:222)
at net.sf.jasperreports.charts.fill.JRFillCategoryDataset.customIncrement(JRFillCategoryDataset.java:143)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElementDataset.increment(JRFillElementDataset.java:191)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRCalculator.calculateVariables(JRCalculator.java:183)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillDetail(JRVerticalFiller.java:740)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReportStart(JRVerticalFiller.java:263)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReport(JRVerticalFiller.java:123)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:539)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fill(JRFiller.java:153)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fill(JasperFillManager.java:474)
at com.jaspersoft.studio.utils.ExpressionUtil.initBuiltInParameters(ExpressionUtil.java:339)
at com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.preview.view.control.ReportControler$5.run(ReportControler.java:330)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
 
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Posted on May 20, 2015 at 6:22pm

Have you set your chart components? Exactly which chart component are you trying to add and what is the exact steps you're taking?

I'm not getting any such error.

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Posted on May 20, 2015 at 11:56pm

Screenshot from my chart wizard:

This is my report:

 

 

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Posted on December 23, 2015 at 2:37pm

Also - looking for help with Charting. I have the same  NULL KEY issue stated above.

 

Is there a good "How to" guide for charts?

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Posted on January 28, 2016 at 1:46pm

I'm trying the tutorial at http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/creating-charts-and-subreports-jasp... and am getting the same error. 

This is using JasperReports 6.2 andjasper studio 6.2.

The graph in that tutorial is also a bar chart.

Are there any tricks for debugging this stuff?  Java stack traces into code you don't have sources to (org.jfree in this case) and exception messages like "null 'key' argument" are pretty useless.

Here's the jrxml generated from the example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Created with Jaspersoft Studio version 6.2.0.final using JasperReports Library version 6.2.0  -->
<!-- 2016-01-28T16:16:22 -->
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="GraphReport" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="c029557d-c3bc-47e9-a5ff-f7544e7265cb">
    <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.sql.tables" value=""/>
    <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.defaultdataadapter" value="Sample DB"/>
    <queryString>
        <![CDATA[select count(*), SHIPCITY from orders group by SHIPCITY]]>
    </queryString>
    <field name="C1" class="java.lang.Long"/>
    <field name="SHIPCITY" class="java.lang.String"/>
    <background>
        <band splitType="Stretch"/>
    </background>
    <title>
        <band height="350" splitType="Stretch">
            <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="pixel"/>
            <barChart>
                <chart evaluationTime="Report">
                    <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="555" height="350" uuid="eb78ea14-af53-4212-90f4-0186ec9effcf"/>
                    <chartTitle/>
                    <chartSubtitle/>
                    <chartLegend/>
                </chart>
                <categoryDataset>
                    <categorySeries>
                        <seriesExpression><![CDATA[$F{SHIPCITY}]]></seriesExpression>
                        <valueExpression><![CDATA[$F{C1}]]></valueExpression>
                        <labelExpression><![CDATA[$F{SHIPCITY}]]></labelExpression>
                    </categorySeries>
                </categoryDataset>
                <barPlot>
                    <plot/>
                    <itemLabel/>
                    <categoryAxisLabelExpression><![CDATA[" "]]></categoryAxisLabelExpression>
                    <categoryAxisFormat>
                        <axisFormat/>
                    </categoryAxisFormat>
                    <valueAxisFormat>
                        <axisFormat/>
                    </valueAxisFormat>
                </barPlot>
            </barChart>
        </band>
    </title>
</jasperReport>
 

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