Provide ability to generate ID attributes for HTML elements

Hi,

 

I think you could attach the ID to the elements using a custom property in JRXML, and then you'll have to exploit it using a customized version of the HTML exporter. Note that elements have a property called "key", that might be exploited in the same way.

 

You could contribute this back to the project as a patch. If you can explain its usefulness a bit, maybe such improvement could make it into the core exporter.

 

Thank you,

Teodor

Hi,

 

Anything new on this one?

Can you give us an example of how you plan to use the ID so that we figure out how to better solved this?

 

Thank you,

Teodor

 

Hi,

 

Without valuable feedback, this feature might be simply dismissed soon.

 

Thank you,

Teodor

Sorry, I sent the following via email... I guess it didn't make its way here:

 

Teodor,

 

Sorry, haven't had time to work on this at all.

 

Initially, I was thinking that IDs for all elements would be very useful in

writing integration tests, we use WebTest:

http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/WebTestHome.html

 

We have chosen a different approach in writing our integration tests, but

others may benefit in this regard.

 

In addition, I would think having IDs would provide a lot more flexibility

in making interactive reports, i.e. Would facilitate the use of

javascript/Ajax. This is something in our plan, but dates are not clear

yet.

 

Thanks for getting back to me.

/mt

 

 

Hi,

 

A new custom property called net.sf.jasperreports.export.html.id is available at element level, to allow specifying the ID attribute value for HTML and XHTML export.

 

This will be part of the JR 3.7.0 release.

 

Thank you,

Teodor