How to use jasperreports subreports with grails jasper plugin ?

Question

I would like to use subreports with grails jasper plugins, I followed the manual at this url (http://www.grails.org/plugin/jasper). Here is my code :

Domain Book :

class Book {

  static belongsTo = Library

    Library library

    String title
    String author
    String publisher
    String category

    static constraints={
        title()
        author()
        publisher()
        category()
    }
}

Domain Library :

class Library {

  static hasMany = [ books : Book ]

  String name
  String adresse
  Date dateMaturity

    static constraints = {
    }

        String toString()
    {
        return name
    }
}

In my BookController, I have :

def createReport = {
    def books = Book.list()
    chain(controller:'jasper',action:'index',model:[data:books],params:params)
}

In my LibraryController, I have :

def createReport = {
    def library = Library.list()
    chain(controller:'jasper',action:'index',model:[data:library],params:params)
}

My jasper part is :

I have a SubReport file : books.jasper (get a list of books).
Also a MasterReport : library.jasper (get a list of library).

In my MasterReport(library), I added subreport, I would like, for each library, show list of books it contains ; here is my library code :

<parameter name="SUBREPORT_DIR" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false">
...
<field name="books" class="java.util.Collection"/>
...
<subreport isUsingCache="true">
<reportElement x="0" y="25" width="437" height="100"/>
<dataSourceExpression><![CDATA[new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRBeanCollectionDataSource($F{books})]]></dataSourceExpression>
<subreportExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$P{SUBREPORT_DIR} + "books.jasper"]]>
</subreportExpression>
</subreport>

And I have this error :

Error 500: Executing action [index] of controller [JasperController] in plugin [jasper] caused exception: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression : Source text : new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRBeanCollectionDataSource($F{books})
Exception Message: failed to lazily initialize a collection of role: bookshelf.Library.books, no session or session was closed

Thank you for help.

Answer 1

I find the issue :

In my Library domain, I just add a mapping with "books lazy: false" :

class Library {

  static hasMany = [ books : Book ]

  String name
  String adresse
  Date dateMaturity

    static constraints = {
    }

    static mapping = {
    books lazy: false
  }

        String toString()
    {
        return name
    }
}

And now, I have my report witout troubles !

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The grails jasper plugin use chain to chains the model from one action to the next (chain(controller:'jasper',action:'index',model:[data:library],params:params).

After, in jasper controller we get the model by this line :

def testModel = this.getProperties().containsKey('chainModel')?chainModel:null

For some reason, in Library collection, we have an error on books list, eg : org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: failed to lazily initialize a collection - no session or session was closed

By using "lazy: false", we pull all other instances of the domain class.

Is there another way to fix this issue ?

Answer 2

Jasper reports just expects the list of objects. It doesn't understand GORM queries. So the way we do is by creating a separate list of objects which we name as 'View Objects' and then send them to jasper reports instead of domain classes.

 class LibraryVO {
   List books
   String name
   String adresse
   Date dateMaturity
  }

 class bookVO {
  String title
    String author
    String publisher
    String category
  }

You can initializ the list like

 List data=[]

 LibraryVo libVo= new LibraryVO(...) // inalise it here
 libVo.books = [new BookVO(),new BookVO()]

 data << libVO

And pass the list to jasper controller

(chain(controller:'jasper',action:'index',model:[data:data],params:params).