Java

Select report design

if (args.length == 0) {
     designFile = "SalesList.4rp";
} else {
      designFile = args[0];
}

Configure the output
Select PDF output

PDFRenderer renderer = new PDFRenderer(handler);

Serialize model
Use the JAXB marshaller to serialize the data.

report.runFromJAXBObject(data);

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import com.fourjs.pxml.standardpipe.runtimeapi.*;
import java.awt.Desktop;
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.Date;
import java.io.Serializable;
 
//The XmlRootElement annotation causes an global element declaration to be produced in the schema.
@XmlRootElement
public class Sales {
//The XmlElement annotation maps a property to an XML element.
//The Genero Engine does not support optional variables so setting "required=true" is mandatory.
//If a variable needs to be optional then use "nillable=true" and set the variable to null when
//there is no value. If a primitive type needs to be optional then use the corresponding
//object wrapper instead (e.g java.lang.Integer for "int").
   @XmlElement(required = true, nillable = true)
   public String shopName;
   @XmlElement(required = true)
   public int zipCode;
   @XmlElement(required = true, nillable = true)
   public Date day;

//This and any other public collection will be serialized in the order they are declared descending //recursively into the classes contained in the collections.
    public Vector items=new Vector();
    public Sales(String shopName, int zipCode, Date day)
    {
        this.shopName=shopName;
        this.zipCode=zipCode;
        this.day=day;
        items.add(new SalesItem("Tablelamp",SalesItem.Category.Furniture,23.00,null));
        items.add(new SalesItem("Tablelamp",SalesItem.Category.Furniture,267.00, items.lastElement()));
        items.add(new SalesItem("Officechair",SalesItem.Category.Furniture,155.00, items.lastElement()));
        items.add(new SalesItem("Grandfather clock",SalesItem.Category.Furniture,329.00, items.lastElement()));
        items.add(new SalesItem("Scissors",SalesItem.Category.Supplies,19.00, items.lastElement()));
        items.add(new SalesItem("Measuring tape",SalesItem.Category.Supplies,23.00, items.lastElement()));
        items.add(new SalesItem("Sunglasses",SalesItem.Category.Travelling,15.95, items.lastElement()));
        items.add(new SalesItem("Penknife",SalesItem.Category.Travelling,6.25, items.lastElement()));
        items.add(new SalesItem("Ornateangel",SalesItem.Category.Art,1.95, items.lastElement()));
    }

/** Default Constructor that is required for JAXB deserialization.
    In this program this is never used.
*/
    public Sales() { assert false; }
/**
    Runs the report using the design file specified in args[0] or "SalesList.4rp" otherwise.
    The program creates the file "SalesList.pdf" and opens it using
Desktop.open() which will typically
    invoke the Acrobat Reader.
*/
    public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException, IOException, SAXException
    {
        String designFile;
        String outputFilename = "SalesList.pdf";
   
        if (args.length == 0) {
            designFile = "SalesList.4rp";
        } else {
            designFile = args[0];
        }
 
        FormatHandler handler = new FormatWriter(outputFilename);
        PDFRenderer renderer = new PDFRenderer(handler);
        FourRpLayouter report = new FourRpLayouter(designFile, renderer);
 
        report.setDebugLevel(9);
        Sales data = new Sales("Columbus Arts", 75038, new Date());
 
        report.runFromJAXBObject(data);
   
        // open the file
        File result = new File(outputFilename);
        Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
        desktop.open(result);
 
  }
 
}
 
class SalesItem
{
    public enum Category {Furniture, Art, Supplies, Travelling };
   
    @XmlElement(required = true, nillable = true)
    public String articleName;
    @XmlElement(required = true, nillable = true)
    public Category category;
    @XmlElement(required = true)
    public double price;
    @XmlElement(required = true)
    public double runningTotal;
   
//The previous item is passed to allow computing the running total.
    public SalesItem(String articleName, Category category, double price, SalesItem previousItem)
    {
        this.articleName=articleName;
        this.category=category;
        this.price=price;
      
this.runningTotal=previousItem==null?price:previousItem.runningTotal+price;
    }
 
/** Default Constructor that is required for JAXB deserialization.
    In this program this is never used.
*/
    public SalesItem() { }
}