Gradle JasperReports Plugin

Description

Provides the capability to compile JasperReports design files. This plugin is designed to work like the Maven plugins Maven 2 JasperReports Plugin and JasperReports-plugin. Much of this was inspired by these two projects.

Usage

This plugin provides one main task, compileAllReports. It uses incremental task feature to process out-of-date files and parallel collections from GPars for parallel processing. Adapt your build process to your own needs by defining the proper tasks depedencies (see Custom Build Process below).

If your designs compilation needs to run after Groovy compilation, running compileAllReports should give a similar output:

$ gradle compileAllReports
:compileJava UP-TO-DATE
:compileGroovy UP-TO-DATE
:prepareReportsCompilation
:compileAllReports
21 designs compiled in 2222 ms

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 6.577 secs

To clean up and start fresh, simply run:

$ gradle clean compileAllReports

Installation

Using the pluging DSL...

plugins {
  id "com.github.gmazelier.jasperreports" version "0.4"
}

Using the legacy plugin application...

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "com.github.gmazelier:jasperreports-gradle-plugin:0.4"
  }
}

apply plugin: "com.github.gmazelier.jasperreports"

Configuration

Below are the parameters that can be used to configure the build:

Parameter	Type	Description
srcDir	File	Design source files directory. Default value: src/main/jasperreports
tmpDir	File	Temporary files (.java) directory. Default value: ${project.buildDir}/jasperreports
outDir	File	Compiled reports file directory. Default value: ${project.buildDir}/classes/main
srcExt	String	Design source files extension. Default value: '.jrxml'
outExt	String	Compiled reports files extension. Default value: '.jasper'
compiler	String	The report compiler to use. Default value: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRJdtCompiler
keepJava	boolean	Keep temporary files after compiling. Default value: false
validateXml	boolean	Validate source files before compiling. Default value: true
verbose	boolean	Verbose plugin outpout. Default value: false
useRelativeOutDir	boolean	The outDir is relative to java classpath. Default value: false
classpath	Iterable<File>	Extra elements to add to the classpath when compile. Default value: []

Example

Below is a complete example, with default values:

jasperreports {
    srcDir = file('src/main/jasperreports')
    tmpDir = file('${project.buildDir}/jasperreports')
    outDir = file('${project.buildDir}/classes/main')
    srcExt = '.jrxml'
    outExt = '.jasper'
    compiler = 'net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRJdtCompiler'
    keepJava = false
    validateXml = true
    verbose = false
    useRelativeOutDir = false
    classpath = []
}

Custom Build Process

Adding a task dependency is very simple. For example, if you want to make sure that Groovy (and Java) compilation is successfully performed before JasperReports designs compilation, just add the following to your build script:

compileAllReports.dependsOn compileGroovy

Custom Classpath

Sharing dependencies

Here's a way to share dependencies (joda-time in this example) between the main project and the designs compilation:

buildscript {
  ext {
    libs = [
      jrdeps: [
        // all dependencies shared with JasperReports
        'joda-time:joda-time:2.7'
      ]
    ]
  }
  repositories {
    jcenter()
    mavenCentral()
    maven {
        url 'http://jaspersoft.artifactoryonline.com/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts/'
    }
    maven {
      url 'http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/maven2'
    }
    maven {
      url 'http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/'
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'com.github.gmazelier:jasperreports-gradle-plugin:0.3.2'
    classpath libs.jrdeps
  }
}

apply plugin: 'groovy'
apply plugin: 'com.github.gmazelier.jasperreports'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
  compile libs.jrdeps
}

jasperreports {
  verbose = true
}

compileAllReports.dependsOn compileGroovy

Adding Project Compiled Sources

Use the classpath property to acces your compiled sources in you JasperReports designs. Configure your build script in a similar way:

jasperreports {
    verbose = true
    classpath = project.sourceSets.main.output
}

Getting Help

To ask questions or report bugs, please use the Github project.

Contributors

Patches are welcome. Thanks to:

• Blake Jackson
• Rankec
• tkofford

Change Log

0.4 (2019-10-20)

• Dependencies upgrade (Gradle and Jasper).
• Move to Gradle publishing plugin.

0.3.2 (2015-12-07)

• Adds Microsoft OS support.

0.3.1 (2015-11-24)

• Fix an issue if there are multiple files in subdirectories when using useRelativeOutDir.

0.3.0 (2015-11-17)

• Adds Java 8 support.
• Configures Travis CI.
• Improves tests.

0.2.1 (2015-04-03)

• Adds useRelativeOutDir option.
• Enable Gradle wrapper for developers.

0.2.0 (2015-02-26)

• Adds classpath option.

0.1.0 (2014-08-24)

• Initial release.

License

This plugin is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0 without warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.