Introduction

A simple python module to run and get generated reports deployed on a JasperServer. Module works by consuming the SOAP web service provided by the JasperServer. It is ideal for python projects that uses JasperServer for reporting and needs a way to access/publish these reports to their users easily. However, this project is not a management interface for JasperServer, you should use its web interface and/or iReport for that.

Requirements

• re # included in standard distribution
• email # included in standard distribution
• xml # included in standard distribution
• suds (>= 0.3.8 GA) # https://fedorahosted.org/suds/wiki

NOTE: module has been tested on python v2.6.4 only.

Usage

For the impatient

from jasperclient import JasperClient

url = 'http://localhost:8080/jasperserver/services/repository?wsdl'
j = JasperClient(url,'joeuser','joeuser')
ret = j.runReport('/reports/samples/AllAccounts',"PDF")
f = file('AllAccounts.pdf','w')
f.write(ret['data'])
f.close()

JasperClient object

Create your Jasper object with JasperServer wsdl url and JasperServer credentials.

j = JasperClient( 'http://localhost:8080/jasperserver/services/repository?wsdl', 'joeuser', 'joeuser')

There are only two methods that can be used.

JasperClient.listReports(dir="")

Returns a list of strings that are report URIs of the JasperServer. Optional dir param may be used to define the directory to look for. It should start with / and end with directory name. (No / at the end)

Jasper.runReport(uri,output="PDF",params={})

This will run the report for the URI given in uri and generate a dict containing 'content-type' and 'data'. 'content-type' can be used to send as an HTTP response header. params is a simple dict to pass directly to the running report.

Check the source for more info