Jasper Reports Integration - beta release

Question

Hi guys,
I have finally found the time to release the Jasper Reports Integration package for producing print ready reports.
You can find all the details here: http://daust.blogspot.com/2010/01/jasper-reports-integration-beta-release.html
Anybody is welcome to try the software and join the beta program.
Thanks,
~Dietmar.

Answer 1

Hi Wolfgang,
Now it works as expected!That's the way I like it ;).
I would like to save the report in a user table with a blob field, how can this be achieved?Easy, this is even already part of the test application.
On the Report Tester tab you will find a button called "Get report as BLOB, then display". It calls the following page process:
DECLARE
   l_blob        BLOB;
   l_mime_type   VARCHAR2 (100);
BEGIN
   xlog ('PRC_GET_REPORT_TUNNEL', 'url (orig):' || :p5_report_url);
   -- generate the report and return in BLOB
   xlib_jasperreports.set_report_url (:p5_jasper_report_url);
   xlib_jasperreports.get_report
                                (p_rep_name               => :p5_rep_name,
                                 p_rep_format             => :p5_rep_format,
                                 p_data_source            => :p5_data_source,
                                 p_rep_locale             => :p5_rep_locale,
                                 p_rep_encoding           => :p5_rep_encoding,
                                 p_additional_params      => :p5_additional_params,
                                 p_out_blob               => l_blob,
                                 p_out_mime_type          => l_mime_type
   -- set mime header
   OWA_UTIL.mime_header (ccontent_type      => l_mime_type,
                         bclose_header      => FALSE);
   -- set content length
   HTP.p ('Content-length: ' || DBMS_LOB.getlength (l_blob));
   OWA_UTIL.http_header_close;
   -- download the file and display in browser
   WPG_DOCLOAD.download_file (l_blob);
   -- release resources
   DBMS_LOB.freetemporary (l_blob);
   -- stop rendering of APEX page
   apex_application.g_unrecoverable_error := TRUE;
EXCEPTION
   WHEN OTHERS
   THEN
      xlog ('PRC_GET_REPORT_TUNNEL', SQLERRM, 'ERROR');
      RAISE;
END;Once you have the blob you can store it in a database table, done!
There is only one tricky part. Should the Tomcat throw an exception then it will return a html error page (http code 200=ok). The request is perfectly valid but a human can see the error message.
The API should throw an exception on that. A bit tricky once other J2EE servers are supported or the error messages vary.
BTW: do you plan any additional features ?Perhaps, what are you looking for?
Cheers,
~Dietmar.