Report Designer samples

The following samples show how to render Report Designer reports in various web applications.

Execute a report from a HTML form (POSTing parameters)

This sample renders a Report Designer (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.

Render 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.

Render 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.