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Reporting Samples

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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.