jsReport spike

Questions

Infra

• Container availability check - http://jsreport-host/api/ping (https://jsreport.net/learn/api#ping)
• Secure API behind authentication (https://jsreport.net/learn/authentication)
• Rendering server container with request
• Template synchronisation from minio. (https://jsreport.net/learn/template-stores)
• Upload result to minio / s3 storage.
• Render eninges? (https://jsreport.net/learn/templating-engines) - handlebars
• Debugging/Error Logging - Error logs available in jsreport Studio for all failed renders
• Test jsReport studio (pro / contra) - development both in jsReport studio and prefered IDE possible
• Parallel running Problem with multiple local instances (f.e. parallel tests) not working.

Rendering / Templateing

• List of data (foreach)
• condition in templates (if)
• Include dynamic images (base64)
• Fonts (pdf-integration)
• Prepare splitted template and data. Replace dynamic data in template.
• encoding (Ä,Ü,Ö) --> Template must have the correct encoding.
• render dynamic html elements from data. --> use dribble brackets {{{dynHtml}}}
• Add Page break (https://jsreport.net/blog/pdf-report-paging-and-page-breaks)
• Shared style file (f.e. css)
• Override custom styles for a template
• Support for Header and Footer with page number
• Render same template with different output configurations. --> Fluent request builder extension would be nice.
• Page Format f.e. A4, A5 or custom size
• Localization
• Formating of datetime or numbers.

Low Prio / nice to have

• Html rendering (UseCase: E-Mail Templating) --> The CopyToAsync with content not working.
• Render to image (UseCase: Tumbnails)
• Splitted templates for reusing https://handlebarsjs.com/guide/partials.html#basic-partials, https://jsreport.net/learn/child-templates?version=2.11.0
• Support of dynamic js scripts f.e. charts (js)
• Possible to combine with other pdf files.

Setup Docker

Docker Desktop

Required https://docs.docker.com/desktop/

Docker Hub

https://hub.docker.com/r/jsreport/jsreport

jsreport-config

Rename either .\docker\jsreport\jsreport-templatestore-filesystem.config.json or .\docker\jsreport\jsreport-templatestore-minio.config.json to .\docker\jsreport\jsreport.config.json to activate config file for needed template store.

docker-compose

Startup jsReport host docker container.

Published on Port : 15488

.\docker\docker-compose.yml

docker-compose up -d

jsReport references

Product

https://jsreport.net

Engines

handlebars

https://handlebarsjs.com/

Sync Templates

https://jsreport.net/learn/fs-store?version=2.11.0#cloud-storage