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creating a DOM document from an XML file.

 
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well, I've been workin on this for days now, and I decided to take a help from you guys.

my problem is:
I have a java class that uses the jasperreports API to create a report that reads a XML file as data source.

that's only the concept, what i need now, is to convert a XML file into a DOM document, the report needs a org.w3c.dom.document document, and i'm getting like to do it.

that's the try that matters now:

note: caminhoXML is a String defined before this, it holds the path for the XML file.


as you can see, it is a complete mess.
what really matter is this lines:


this println prints in the screen: [#document: null]
so that we can know that my parse method is returning a null document.

this null document turn out to be more errors in the report filling engine, and the report goes empty.


can you guys help me out on this one?

 
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Hi Lucas,
i think you do the right thing - exept printing the Document in the right manner. Following these instructions http://faq.javaranch.com/java/DocumentToString i modified your code to print out the Document properly:


Regards,
Georg
 
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If you see the documentation of the DocumentBuilder class, then you will find this

DocumentBuilder.parse(String uri)
Parse the content of the given URI as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.



So basically it treats your xml document as a URI :P .
 
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Ankit Garg wrote:If you see the documentation of the DocumentBuilder class, then you will find this

DocumentBuilder.parse(String uri)
Parse the content of the given URI as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.



So basically it treats your xml document as a URI :P .



Lucas orginally used

DocumentBuilder.parse(File f)
Parse the content of the given file as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.



but I dont think it makes any differnce because internally both are converted to an InputSource and do return the DOMDocument he needs:



respectively


 
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Yes! I got confused. I thought caminhoXML contains the xml document as a String :P
 
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Georg Bruestle:
I appreciate the help! you are right about the printing, and your code printed the XML document properly.

Ankit Garg:
i'm sorry, if i showed you all the code that fills the caminhoXML variable it would be so much code, so i just hided it, that could cause some mess.


so............
yeah, looks like my printing was wrong, BUT, the thing is:

what does [#document: null] means?
'cuz now I see that the document object is not null, but in the report i keep getting warnings like:

and the report just get empty.

I was thinking, this line:

could get me some problems, because parametros is defined as:

and I really think that I'm getting some trouble in storing the document in this hashmap.

can the hasmap not store this object properly? so that when I try to read this document in other class, the document is null or not "well-formed"?

I really need you guys. thanks in advance for the help.
 
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Hi Lucas,
i'm not sure where your Problem actually is, but this works fine for me:



Perhaps you can provide some more information on what you are doing an where the problem may be.

Regards,
Georg
 
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Georg.
yeah it works for me too.

so, let me explain what am I doing to get this.

I'm using JasperReports API to compile,fill and export some reports.
i'm doing this since a lot of time, but this time i need to pass an XML datasource, not a connection, as i do usually.

for those who don't know jasper, it got a method fillreport(JasperReport jr, Map parameters, Connection conn)
and also a method fillreport(JasperReport jr, Map parameters, JRDataSource ds)

all I did was changing the last parameter, from connection to a datasource, OK jasper should do the work now.

but since I did this, i get empty reports, and a warning in the system output:


so, Jasper have an graphic interface to work with it, its caller iReport, its only an executable program and report editor that creates the jaspercode.

when I looked at iReport I noted a built-in parameter called "XML_DATA_SOURCE", then I looked at the class that was trowing the warning:


and I saw this:



thats when I related
JRXPathQueryExecuterFactory.PARAMETER_XML_DATA_DOCUMENT
with the XML_DATA_DOCUMENT parameter in iReport.

so, I used this parameters map (parametros) that is used to pass the params to jasper, to try setting the parameter that jasper warns to be null.

then i saw that the datatype for the parameter is org.w3c.dom.Document, and I tried to set the parameter he miss. then. i failed. and I looked for help in javaranch bigmoose saloon... and the end of the story you already know

I promess you guys, after I solve this, i pay you a round of beer.

 
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Unforunatelly I'm not used to JasperReport. But i found this site in their API:

http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/api/constant-values.html#net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRXPathQueryExecuterFactory.PARAMETER_XML_DATA_DOCUMENT

which prints that the constant JRXPathQueryExecuterFactory.PARAMETER_XML_DATA_DOCUMENT is a String: "XML_DATA_DOCUMENT".

Have you tried using this String in your parametros-HashMap? Or even better, using the constant itself?

I think here is someone doing something similar to your needs (Line 115-121):

http://kickjava.com/src/XmlDataSourceApp.java.htm

Good Luck,
Georg
 
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Georg

I saw the constant you said, and everything makes sense now.

now, we can know that in the JRXPathQueryExecuter class:

the getParameterValue method:

gets like this:


and then averything gets better, in a colorful pink world...

and that's my code now:


ok, let's see, i got a first print comand (line 1) that prints {}, saying that my HashMap is empty at the moment.

then, we got a second print (line 16), after the parametros hashMap is filled, it prints my hashmap using only a representation for the document:

then I used the lines that you writed(lines 18->26) to print the document that gets out of the hashmap (not the one obtained in the parsing, the one I take off the hashmap), and it turned out to be everything OK:

//i'm sorry for the XML structure to be on brazilian language, i wanted to keep the original file.
So, everything's fine huh?

but this line:

in the JRXPathQueryExecuter class keeps returning a null document.


listen, i thank you for all the help, I appreciate you spending your time helping me, I really need it working, and you represented a great step on making things work.


so Georg, i'm starting to think that it would be better for us to throw this into a jasper forum, so that now it turned out to be a jasper problem. are you with me?
if you have time and will to help me on discovering this one, I would appreciate.

regards.


(UPD: changed the data contained in the xml, it was personal data from one of our clients)
 
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oh, I solved it

seems like when I first solved the Dom document thing, all turned out to be a jasper problem, not things to discuss here.

if you got this same problem, you can try searching on jasperforge, there I find my answer.


thanks to you all guys! and to georg that helped me!

 
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