Gradle JasperReports Plugin

Description

Provides the capability to compile JasperReports design files. This plugin is based on a private fork of gradle-jasperreports which seems to have been abandoned.

Usage

This plugin provides one main task, compileAllReports. It uses Gradles input changes feature to compile out-of-date files and its Worker API for parallel processing.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
:compileAllReports

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 6.577 secs

To clean up and start fresh, simply run:

$ gradle clean compileAllReports

Installation

plugins {
    id("io.github.f-cramer.jasperreports") version "<version>"
}

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/reports
tmpDir	File	Temporary files (.java) directory. Default value: ${project.buildDir}/jasperreports/tmp
outDir	File	Compiled reports file directory. Default value: ${project.buildDir}/jasperreports/out
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: true
classpath	ConfigurableFileCollection	Classpath to use for compilation. Default value: <empty>
launcher	JavaLauncher	Launcher from standard java toolchain

Attention:

The compilation task does not add a default version of Jasperreports to the compilation classpath, so by default the task will fail. You have to add a version of Jasperreports and every other dependency needed to compile the reports yourself. The following example shows how to the applications compile classpath

jasperreports {
    classpath.from(configurations.compileClasspath)
}

Compatibility

The plugin is tested with Java 8, Gradle 8.6 and the following JasperReports versions

• 6.17.0
• 6.18.1
• 6.19.1
• 6.20.6
• 6.21.3
• 7.0.0

Example

Below is a complete example, with default values:

jasperreports {
    srcDir = file("src/main/reports")
    tmpDir = file("${project.buildDir}/jasperreports/tmp")
    outDir = file("${project.buildDir}/jasperreports/out")
    srcExt = ".jrxml"
    outExt = ".jasper"
    compiler = "net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRJdtCompiler"
    keepJava = false
    validateXml = true
    verbose = false
    useRelativeOutDir = true
    classpath.from()
}

Custom Build Process

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

tasks.compileAllReports.configure {
    dependsOn(tasks.compileJava)
}

Custom Classpath

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.from(project.sourceSets.main)
}

Getting Help

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

License

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