JasperServer-Client

DESCRIPTION:

JasperServer-Client is – you guessed it – a Ruby-based client for JasperServer. The library allows for requesting and fetching reports from a networked JasperServer over SOAP.

USAGE:

Here we request a report to be generated in PDF format and then save the resulting data to a local file:

# Create a new client instance for the JasperServer running at 
# http://example.com/jasperserver
client = JasperServer::Client.new("http://example.com/jasperserver/services/repository",
                                  "jasperadmin", "secret!")

# Create a request for a report. The first parameter is the full path of the 
# report unit, the second is the desired output format, and the last is an 
# optional hash of parameters to be fed into the report.
request = JasperServer::Request.new("/example/my-report", "PDF", {'fruit' => 'apple'})

# Send the report request to the server and return the output data.
pdf_data = client.request_report(request)

# Write the report data to a file (instead you could send the data to the user's
# browser if you're doing this in, for example, a Rails controller action).
File.open('/tmp/report.pdf', 'w') do |f|
  f.puts(pdf_data)
end

REQUIREMENTS:

A Ruby interpreter.
The soap4r gem, version 1.5.8 or greater. (This should be automatically installed as a dependency; otherwise run gem install soap4r.)
A running JasperServer instance. The client has been tested with versions 2.0 through to 3.0 of JasperServer.

INSTALL:

Via RubyGems:
```
gem install jasperserver-client
```

LICENSE:

JasperServer-Client is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

JasperServer-Client is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see <www.gnu.org/licenses/>.