Reporting Samples
Executing a report from a HTML form (POSTing parameters)
This sample renders a prpt report by posting the report parameters to the report REST URL:
http://localhost:8080/pentaho/api/repos/<path>/generatedContent
The POST request contains all parameters the report expects, plus the additional rendering parameter output-target, which controls the rendering format (HTML, PDF, XLS, etc.)
The following output formats are supported:
| Option | Purpose |
| table/html;page-mode=stream | HTML as a single page, all report pagebreaks are ignored. |
| table/html;page-mode=page | HTML as a sequence of physical pages, manual and automatic pagebreaks are active. |
| application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet;page-mode=flow | Excel 2007 XLSX Workbook |
| table/excel;page-mode=flow | Excel 97 Workbook |
| table/csv;page-mode=stream | CSV output |
| table/rtf;page-mode=flow | Rich text format |
| pageable/pdf | PDF output |
| pageable/text | Plain text |
| pageable/xml | Pageable layouted XML |
| table/xml | Table-XML output |
| pageable/X-AWT-Graphics;image-type=png | A single report page as PNG. |
| mime-message/text/html | MIME email with HTML as body text and all style and images as inline attachments. |
Rendering a report in an IFRAME
This sample renders a prpt report using a regular GET request, by populating an HTML IFRAME with the report REST URL:
http://localhost:8080/pentaho/api/repos/<path>/generatedContent?<parameters>
The request contains all parameters as part of the URL.
Rendering report viewer with available parameters and executed report
The sample renders the Pentaho Report Viewer IU by populating an HTML IFRAME with the report REST URL:
http://localhost:8080/pentaho/api/repos/<path>/viewer?<parameters>
The request contains the initial report parameters as part of the URL.