com.inet.report
Class CacheRenderData

java.lang.Object
  com.inet.report.CacheRenderData

All Implemented Interfaces:

RenderData

public class CacheRenderData
extends java.lang.Object
implements RenderData

This class is a RenderData source object running on i-net Clear Reports cache, for use with i-net Clear Reports Viewer. An RenderData object, such as an object of this class, is needed to create a new SwingReportView, for example. It uses the methods provided in Cache to get a cache object (Cache.getCache()), and then passes any data requests on to the cache.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.inet.viewer.RenderData

CASE_SENSITIVE, REGULAR_EXPRESSION, WHOLE_WORD

Constructor Summary

CacheRenderData(java.lang.String url, PropertiesChecker checker, java.lang.Object req)
Creates a RenderData source connection to i-net Clear Reports cache.

CacheRenderData(java.util.Properties props, PropertiesChecker checker, java.lang.Object req)
Creates a RenderData source connection to i-net Clear Reports cache.

Method Summary

RenderData	getCopy() "Clones" this RenderData object with all its properties and returns the copy.
protected EngineFactory	getEngineFactory() returns the EngineFactory to pass to the Cache
int	getExportChunkCount(java.util.Properties expProps) Returns the total number of export "chunks" for the report for the specified export format.
byte[]	getFontData(int fontID) Returns the byte array of the embedded font at the specified fontId, which is encoded in the Viewer's protocol.
byte[]	getGroupTree() Returns the group tree which can be sent to the java viewer as a byte array.
byte[]	getNextExportChunk() Returns the next chunk of the exported report if there is at least one more chunk available.
int	getPageCount() Returns the number of pages in the report.
byte[]	getPageData(int page) Returns the binary data of one page for the Java Viewer.
java.util.Properties	getProperties() Returns the Properties object used by this RenderData object.
java.lang.String	getReportLocation() Returns the location of the report set by setReportLocation.
java.lang.String	getReportProperty(java.lang.String propertyKey) Returns the chosen property value which has been set either via setReportProperty or otherwise.
java.lang.String	getReportTitle() Returns the manually set title of the report if there is one, that is, what would be typically displayed in a title bar, e.g.
boolean	isPageLimitExceeded() Check if the rendering of the report ran into a page limit.
boolean	isPromptOnRefresh() Returns the property "promptOnRefresh", that is, whether prompts are to be shown whenever new data is fetched from the server.
byte[]	refreshPageData(int page) Returns the binary data of one page for the Java Viewer, however, it causes the page to be rendered anew rather than possibly taking a cached version.
void	resetServerCacheTimeout() Notifies the server that the report with the currently set properties is still being viewed and therefore should not be removed from the cache yet if there is one.
byte[]	search(java.lang.String phrase, int startPage, int flags) Searches the given phrase in the report, starting at a certain page and using the search options given in the flags.
void	setPromptOnRefresh(boolean promptOnRefresh) Sets the property "promptOnRefresh", that is, whether prompts are to be shown whenever the report is refreshed, that is, whenever new data is fetched from the server.
void	setReportLocation(java.lang.String name) Sets the location of the report which this RenderData is to obtain its data for.
void	setReportProperty(java.lang.String key, java.lang.String value) Sets the given property for the report.
void	setReportTitle(java.lang.String title) Sets the title of the report.
void	stop() Stops and cancels the rendering process if one is running.

Constructor Detail

CacheRenderData

public CacheRenderData(java.lang.String url,
                       PropertiesChecker checker,
                       java.lang.Object req)

Creates a RenderData source connection to i-net Clear Reports cache.

Parameters:

url - The same data like setReportLocation.

checker - an implementation of PropertiesChecker for validate the Properties. Can be null.

req - The HTTP servlet request, either null or HttpServlet

See Also:

setReportLocation(String)

CacheRenderData

public CacheRenderData(java.util.Properties props,
                       PropertiesChecker checker,
                       java.lang.Object req)

Creates a RenderData source connection to i-net Clear Reports cache.

Parameters:

props - A list of Properties.

checker - an implementation of PropertiesChecker for validate the Properties. Can be null.

req - The HTTP servlet request, either null or HttpServlet

Method Detail

setReportTitle

public void setReportTitle(java.lang.String title)

Sets the title of the report. This title is what would be typically displayed in a title bar, e.g. "Employee Report 2005". Note that if this is not manually set, the title will be whatever the report has set as its title. If a title is set, it overrides the "actual" report title.

Specified by:

setReportTitle in interface RenderData

Parameters:

title - Title of the report as simple string.

getReportTitle

public java.lang.String getReportTitle()

Returns the manually set title of the report if there is one, that is, what would be typically displayed in a title bar, e.g. "Employee Report 2005". This will return null if no title was manually set.

Specified by:

getReportTitle in interface RenderData

Returns:

Title of report

setReportLocation

public void setReportLocation(java.lang.String name)

Sets the location of the report which this RenderData is to obtain its data for. Any properties can be attached to the end using "=" for separating property name and value, and "&" for separating the various properties, e.g. "...&init=pdf&promptABC=test..." The location may not be null.

Specified by:

setReportLocation in interface RenderData

Parameters:

name - The location at which the report can be found. May not be null. *

getReportLocation

public java.lang.String getReportLocation()

Returns the location of the report set by setReportLocation. This will never be null. An uninitialized location will be returned as an empty string.

Specified by:

getReportLocation in interface RenderData

Returns:

Report Location (e.g URL)

See Also:

*

getPageData

public byte[] getPageData(int page)
                   throws ViewerException

Returns the binary data of one page for the Java Viewer. Note that this method is thread-safe, that is, two or more threads concurrently calling this method and the other thread-safe methods in RenderData should cause no problems.

Specified by:

getPageData in interface RenderData

Parameters:

page - The number of the page. The first page is 1, the second is 2, ... .
If the page number is not valid (usually meaning the page number is outside the page range), null can be returned.

Returns:

The binary data of the page for the Java viewer, or possibly null if page number is not valid.

Throws:

ViewerException - If an exception is returned from the server, it is wrapped in a ViewerException. Often this will be a com.inet.report.ReportException

See Also:

RenderData.getPageCount()

getPageCount

public int getPageCount()
                 throws ViewerException

Returns the number of pages in the report.
This method blocks until the rendering process is finished. This is useful if you use i-net Clear Reports with external result sets or connections and you want to know when the rendering process is finished and you can close these external result sets or connections - once this method returns, the rendering process is finished. Note that this method is thread-safe, that is, two or more threads concurrently calling this method and the other thread-safe methods in RenderData should cause no problems.

Specified by:

getPageCount in interface RenderData

Returns:

number of pages (1-based)

Throws:

ViewerException - If there are rendering problems, etc.

See Also:

RenderData.getPageData(int)

isPageLimitExceeded

public boolean isPageLimitExceeded()

Check if the rendering of the report ran into a page limit. This means does not all possible pages exist.

Specified by:

isPageLimitExceeded in interface RenderData

Returns:

true, if there is a limit

getNextExportChunk

public byte[] getNextExportChunk()
                          throws ViewerException

Returns the next chunk of the exported report if there is at least one more chunk available. It is required that getExportChunkCount(Properties) has been called once for this report.
This method blocks until the rendering process of the requested chunk or the complete report is finished.

Specified by:

getNextExportChunk in interface RenderData

Returns:

Next chunk of the report, or null if the export is finished.

Throws:

ViewerException - If there are connection problems or other issues while fetching the data

See Also:

RenderData.getExportChunkCount(Properties)

getExportChunkCount

public int getExportChunkCount(java.util.Properties expProps)
                        throws ViewerException

Returns the total number of export "chunks" for the report for the specified export format.
A "chunk" is a unit of export data which can be retrieved using getNextExportChunk(). This method blocks until the rendering process is finished on the server. Note that this method is thread-safe, that is, two or more threads concurrently calling this method and the other thread-safe methods in RenderData should cause no problems.
In case of gzip compression, the number of chunks can not be determined and "0" is returned. The chunks can be retrieved in a loop until getNextExportChunk() returns NULL.

Specified by:

getExportChunkCount in interface RenderData

Parameters:

expProps - Properties to be appended to the current report properties for this export. The properties should contain at least the export format with the key "export_fmt". The following formats are valid:
"pdf" - pdf file
"rtf" - rtf file
"xls" - xls file
"csv" - csv file
"ps" - ps file
"xml" -xml file
"htm" - html files, The file name is the base filename, because there are more files with links.
For a complete list of report URL properties see the documentation.

Returns:

Total number of export "chunks" (i.e. units) which can be fetched using getNextExportChunk()

Throws:

ViewerException - If there are connection problems or other issues while fetching the data

See Also:

RenderData.getNextExportChunk(), RenderData.getProperties()

getEngineFactory

protected EngineFactory getEngineFactory()

returns the EngineFactory to pass to the Cache

Returns:

the EngineFactory to pass to the Cache

Since:

9.2

getGroupTree

public byte[] getGroupTree()
                    throws ViewerException

Returns the group tree which can be sent to the java viewer as a byte array. Note that this method is thread-safe, that is, two or more threads concurrently calling this method and the other thread-safe methods in RenderData should cause no problems.

Specified by:

getGroupTree in interface RenderData

Returns:

byte[] Group Tree as byte array, encoded by i-net Clear Reports.

Throws:

ViewerException - If there are connection problems or other issues while fetching the data

refreshPageData

public byte[] refreshPageData(int page)
                       throws ViewerException

Returns the binary data of one page for the Java Viewer, however, it causes the page to be rendered anew rather than possibly taking a cached version.

Specified by:

refreshPageData in interface RenderData

Parameters:

page - The number of the page. The first page is 1, the second is 2, ... . If the page number is bigger than the page count the data from the last page will be returned.

Returns:

the binary data for the Java Viewer

Throws:

ViewerException - If there are connection problems or other issues while fetching the data

See Also:

RenderData.getPageCount()

setReportProperty

public void setReportProperty(java.lang.String key,
                              java.lang.String value)

Sets the given property for the report. See http://www.inetsoftware.de/documentation/clear-reports/online-help/features/report-url-parameters.html for a list of possible properties to set here and what they mean.
Setting null as the value will cause the removal of the property. If a prompt property is to be explicitly set to the value "null", simply set the string "formula:null" as the value.

Specified by:

setReportProperty in interface RenderData

Parameters:

key - Name of property to set, will be converted to lower case

value - Value of property to set, null to remove this property

getReportProperty

public java.lang.String getReportProperty(java.lang.String propertyKey)

Returns the chosen property value which has been set either via setReportProperty or otherwise.

Specified by:

getReportProperty in interface RenderData

Parameters:

propertyKey - Name of property to get value for

Returns:

Value of property with the given name

getProperties

public java.util.Properties getProperties()

Returns the Properties object used by this RenderData object. Note this is NOT a clone but rather the exact object used by RenderData - any changes made to this Properties object will influence the RenderData. See http://www.inetsoftware.de/documentation/clear-reports/online-help/features/report-url-parameters.html for a list of possible properties to set here and what they mean.

Note also that any key values should be set in lower case. This Properties object will never be null, at most it will be empty.

Specified by:

getProperties in interface RenderData

Returns:

Properties object used by RenderData, never null

setPromptOnRefresh

public void setPromptOnRefresh(boolean promptOnRefresh)

Sets the property "promptOnRefresh", that is, whether prompts are to be shown whenever the report is refreshed, that is, whenever new data is fetched from the server.

Specified by:

setPromptOnRefresh in interface RenderData

Parameters:

promptOnRefresh - Value to set for this property

isPromptOnRefresh

public boolean isPromptOnRefresh()

Returns the property "promptOnRefresh", that is, whether prompts are to be shown whenever new data is fetched from the server.

Specified by:

isPromptOnRefresh in interface RenderData

Returns:

The property "promptOnRefresh"

getCopy

public RenderData getCopy()

"Clones" this RenderData object with all its properties and returns the copy. Useful for deriving from existing RenderData objects by copying them and adding or changing properties. This method is called by the viewer for drilling down, for example - the drilldown property is set on the copy while all other properties remain the same, and the copy is used to open a new report view.

Specified by:

getCopy in interface RenderData

Returns:

A cloned copy of this RenderData object with all its properties.

See Also:

ReportViewer.addNewReportView(RenderData), RenderData.getProperties()

stop

public void stop()

Stops and cancels the rendering process if one is running. This command ends up being passed through to i-net Clear Reports rendering engine and running Engine.stop.

Specified by:

stop in interface RenderData

search

public byte[] search(java.lang.String phrase,
                     int startPage,
                     int flags)

Searches the given phrase in the report, starting at a certain page and using the search options given in the flags. These flags are:

WHOLE_WORD : search only the word in its entirety, not parts of words.
CASE_SENSITIVE : observe upper and lower cases in the search, that is "Search" != "search"
REGULAR_EXPRESSION : The search phrase is to be handled as a regular expression (using Java's Regex methods for the search).

Desired flags should be connected by the OR operator "|". So, for example, to search with the flags WHOLE_WORD and CASE_SENSITIVE, simply use WHOLE_WORD | CASE_SENSITIVE as the flags option.

Note that phrases going over more than one page will not be found, nor will text parts with formatting inside the word itself, such as this word. Note that this method is thread-safe, that is, two or more threads concurrently calling this method and the other thread-safe methods in RenderData should cause no problems.

Specified by:

search in interface RenderData

Parameters:

phrase - Word or phrase to search. Should be a regular expression if this flag is set.

startPage - Page to start searching on (1-based)

flags - Desired search options (see above)

Returns:

Search result by the server, encoded in the i-net Clear Reports protocol.

See Also:

RenderData.WHOLE_WORD, RenderData.CASE_SENSITIVE, RenderData.REGULAR_EXPRESSION

getFontData

public byte[] getFontData(int fontID)

Returns the byte array of the embedded font at the specified fontId, which is encoded in the Viewer's protocol. You need not and should not call this method yourself - rather the Viewer will call this method on its own when an embedded font needs to be fetched for the report.

The fontID is 1-based. null will be returned if there are no fonts embedded for the report of this Engine. If fontID is greater than the number of embedded fonts available it will return the last font available. This method is the mirror method to com.inet.report.Engine.getFontData(int), so implementations can either call that if an engine is available, or a running i-net Clear Reports server also returns the font data with an HTTP request of the form "http://server:9000/?report=report.rpt&export_fmt=font&page=FONTID&cmd=get_pg" where FONTID is replaced with the given font ID. Note that this method is thread-safe, that is, two or more threads concurrently calling this method and the other thread-safe methods in RenderData should cause no problems.

Specified by:

getFontData in interface RenderData

Parameters:

fontID - ID of font as specified in the i-net Clear Reports protocol

Returns:

Partial or whole font with the ID, and with the most current version of this font known to the server.

resetServerCacheTimeout

public void resetServerCacheTimeout()

Notifies the server that the report with the currently set properties is still being viewed and therefore should not be removed from the cache yet if there is one. This method does NOT cause the report to be re-rendered under any circumstance, rather it resets the cache timeout on the server if there is one.

This method will be called in regular intervals (default is every 5 minutes) by its corresponding ReportView(s).

Specified by:

resetServerCacheTimeout in interface RenderData