Package com.inet.report

Interface ReportGenerator

All Known Implementing Classes:

Engine, EngineBundle

public interface ReportGenerator

Helper interface to use the same code for Engine and EngineBundle

Since:

14.1

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	execute()	See Engine.execute() for details.
int	getPageCount()	See Engine.getPageCount() for details.
byte[]	getPageData(int page)	See Engine.getPageData(int) for details.
PromptField	getPromptField(java.lang.String name)	See Engine.getPromptField(String) for details.
EngineStatistics	getStatistics()	See Engine.getStatistics() for details.
void	setClientLocale(java.util.Locale locale)	See Engine.setClientLocale(Locale) for details.
void	setDocumentOutput(DocumentOutput documentOutput)	Set the output location for the rendered data.
void	setPrompt(java.lang.String prompt, int i)	See Engine.setPrompt(String, int) for details.
void	setPrompt(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String prompt)	See Engine.setPrompt(String, String) for details.
void	setUserProperties(java.util.Properties props)	See Engine.setUserProperties(Properties) for details.
void	stop(java.lang.String message)	See Engine.stop(String) for details.
void	stopAfterPage(int maxPageNo)	See Engine.stopAfterPage(int) for details.

Method Detail

setDocumentOutput

void setDocumentOutput(DocumentOutput documentOutput)

Set the output location for the rendered data. By default the memory (heap) is used. It is also possible to store the data into the report cache or stream it directly to an OutputStream. This must be set before call of execute().

Parameters:

documentOutput - The location for the data. This can be DocumentOutputStream or CachedOutput.

Since:

16.2

setUserProperties

void setUserProperties(java.util.Properties props)
                throws ReportException

See Engine.setUserProperties(Properties) for details.

Parameters:

props - The data to be set in a Properties object.

Throws:

ReportException - if Engine is not initialized or finished.

Since:

14.1

setClientLocale

void setClientLocale(@Nonnull
                     java.util.Locale locale)
              throws ReportException

See Engine.setClientLocale(Locale) for details.

Parameters:

locale - The locale to be used by the client

Throws:

ReportException - if Engine is not initialized or finished.

Since:

14.1

stopAfterPage

void stopAfterPage(int maxPageNo)

See Engine.stopAfterPage(int) for details.

Parameters:

maxPageNo - The last page that should be rendered. 0 means "unlimited".

Since:

14.1

setPrompt

void setPrompt(java.lang.String name,
               java.lang.String prompt)
        throws ReportException

See Engine.setPrompt(String, String) for details.

Parameters:

name - the name of the parameter field

prompt - value for parameter field as String

Throws:

ReportException - if Engine is not initialized or finished.

Since:

14.1

getPromptField

PromptField getPromptField(java.lang.String name)
                    throws ReportException

See Engine.getPromptField(String) for details.

Parameters:

name - name of the prompt to fetch

Returns:

PromptField by the given name in this Report, or null if none exists

Throws:

ReportException - if Engine is not initialized or finished.

Since:

14.1

setPrompt

void setPrompt(java.lang.String prompt,
               int i)
        throws ReportException

See Engine.setPrompt(String, int) for details.

Parameters:

prompt - value for parameter field i

i - index in the parameter list

Throws:

ReportException - if Engine is not initialized or finished.

Since:

14.1

execute

void execute()
      throws ReportException

See Engine.execute() for details.

Throws:

ReportException - if Engine is not initialized or finished.

Since:

14.1

See Also:

getPageData(int)

getPageCount

int getPageCount()
          throws ReportException

See Engine.getPageCount() for details.

Returns:

number of pages or chunks

Throws:

ReportException - If rendering the report encounters a problem

Since:

14.1

getPageData

byte[] getPageData(int page)
            throws ReportException

See Engine.getPageData(int) for details.

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 then null will be returned.

Returns:

the binary data for the Java Viewer or the bytes of the exported file (page).

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the page number is zero or negative.

ReportException - If rendering the page encounters a problem

Since:

14.1

getStatistics

@Nonnull
EngineStatistics getStatistics()

See Engine.getStatistics() for details.

Returns:

the statistic

Since:

14.1

stop

void stop(java.lang.String message)

See Engine.stop(String) for details.

Parameters:

message - a message for the debug log.

Since:

14.1