How do I fix the “No generic element handlers found for namepsace” error when using a custom genericElement?
I’m trying to tweak example jasper report will bring The common elements of the HTML handler are customized as examples with PDF handlers. But when I try to run
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: No generic element handlers found for namespace http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/customPDFexpoter .
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.GenericElementHandlerEnviroment.getElementHandler(GenericElementHandlerEnviroment.java:112)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportGenericElement(JRPdfExporter.java:4136)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportElements(JRPdfExporter.java:1290)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportPage(JRPdfExporter.java:1210)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReportToStream(JRPdfExporter.java:1074)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReport(JRPdfExporter.java:691)
at com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.preview.actions.export.AExportAction.exportWithProgress(AExportAction.java:223)
at com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.preview.actions.export.AExportAction.doPreview(AExportAction.java:347)
at com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.preview.actions.export.AExportAction$3.run(AExportAction.java:191)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:63)
I also followed this example How to embed the Controller into a PDF, but without success. Nor could the namespace be found. Am I missing something in the project configuration?
This is my JRXML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Created with Jaspersoft Studio version 6.14.0.final using JasperReports Library version 6.14.0-2ab0d8625be255bf609c78e1181801213e51db8f -->
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="Blank_A4" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth= "555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="c685fd77-7e9f-4762-9a4a-422d1c15aed0">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.defaultdataadapter" value="One Empty Record"/>
<queryString>
<! [CDATA[]]>
</queryString>
<background>
<band splitType="Stretch"/>
</background>
<title>
<band height="500" splitType="Stretch">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>
<genericElement>
<reportElement x="94" y="93" width="236" height="107" uuid="0dbdbc2d-cead-47eb-8605-e18cc325259a"/>
<genericElementType namespace="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/customPDFexpoter" name="print"/>
</genericElement>
</band>
</title>
</jasperReport>
My jasperreports_extension.properties (inside the src folder).
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.registry.factory.jr.statistics=net.sf.jasperreports.extensions.SpringExtensionsRegistryFactory
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.jr.statistics.spring.beans.resource=com/test/beans.xml
beans.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">
<bean id="pdfExportHandlerBundle"
class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.DefaultElementHandlerBundle">
<property name="namespace" value="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/customPDFexpoter"/>
<property name="elementHandlers">
<map>
<entry key="print">
<map>
<entry key="net.sf.jasperreports.pdf">
<ref bean="basePdfExportHandler"/>
</entry>
</map>
</entry>
</map>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="basePdfExportHandler" class="com.test.TestPDFHandler"
abstract="true">
</bean>
Java file (src/com/test).
package com.test;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRGenericPrintElement;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRPropertiesMap;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.GenericElementHandler;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.GenericElementHandlerBundle;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.GenericElementPdfHandler;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporterContext;
import net.sf.jasperreports.extensions.ExtensionsRegistry;
import net.sf.jasperreports.extensions.ExtensionsRegistryFactory;
import net.sf.jasperreports.extensions.SingletonExtensionRegistry;
import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Element;
import com.lowagie.text.Phrase;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfAction;
public class TestPDFHandler implements GenericElementPdfHandler {
@Override
public boolean toExport(JRGenericPrintElement element) {
return true;
}
@Override
public void exportElement(JRPdfExporterContext exporterContext,
JRGenericPrintElement element) {
Phrase phrase = new Phrase();
Chunk chunk = new Chunk("print me");
chunk.setAction(PdfAction.javaScript("this.print(null,this.pageNum,this.pageNum)", exporterContext.getPdfWriter()));
phrase.add(chunk);
ColumnText colText = new ColumnText(exporterContext.getPdfWriter().getDirectContent());
colText.setSimpleColumn(phrase,
element.getX(),
exporterContext.getExportedReport().getPageHeight() - element.getY(),
element.getX() + element.getWidth(),
exporterContext.getExportedReport().getPageHeight() - element.getY() - element.getHeight(),
0,
Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
try {
colText.go();
} catch (DocumentException e) {
throw new JRRuntimeException(e);
}
}
/*
@Override
public String getNamespace() {
return "helloWorld";
}
@Override
public GenericElementHandler getHandler(String elementName, String exporterKey) {
if (elementName.equals("print") && exporterKey.equals(JRPdfExporter.PDF_EXPORTER_KEY)) {
return this;
}
return null;
}
@Override
public ExtensionsRegistry createRegistry(String registryId, JRPropertiesMap properties) {
return new SingletonExtensionRegistry<GenericElementHandlerBundle>(GenericElementHandlerBundle.class, this);
}*/
}
Solution
You need to register it as a factory in jasperreports_extension.properties
add
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.registry.factory.me=com.test.TestPDFHandler
Once you’re done, you’ll need to implement the missing interface in TestPDFHandler
, and getNamespace()
needs to correspond to the namespace you provided genericElementType
*
public class TestPDFHandler implements GenericElementPdfHandler, GenericElementHandlerBundle, ExtensionsRegistryFactory {
@Override
public boolean toExport(JRGenericPrintElement element) {
return true;
}
@Override
public void exportElement(JRPdfExporterContext exporterContext,
JRGenericPrintElement element) {
Phrase phrase = new Phrase();
Chunk chunk = new Chunk("print me");
chunk.setAction(PdfAction.javaScript("this.print(null,this.pageNum,this.pageNum)", exporterContext.getPdfWriter()));
phrase.add(chunk);
ColumnText colText = new ColumnText(exporterContext.getPdfWriter().getDirectContent());
colText.setSimpleColumn(phrase,
element.getX(),
exporterContext.getExportedReport().getPageHeight() - element.getY(),
element.getX() + element.getWidth(),
exporterContext.getExportedReport().getPageHeight() - element.getY() - element.getHeight(),
0,
Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
try {
colText.go();
} catch (DocumentException e) {
throw new JRRuntimeException(e);
}
}
@Override
public String getNamespace() {
return "http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/customPDFexpoter";
}
@Override
public GenericElementHandler getHandler(String elementName, String exporterKey) {
if (elementName.equals("print") && exporterKey.equals(JRPdfExporter.PDF_EXPORTER_KEY)) {
return this;
}
return null;
}
@Override
public ExtensionsRegistry createRegistry(String registryId, JRPropertiesMap properties) {
return new SingletonExtensionRegistry<GenericElementHandlerBundle>(GenericElementHandlerBundle.class, this);
}
}
* You can specify any namespace, I won’t use http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports/customPDFexpoter
because it’s not my domain, but to follow your code, it’s used in the example below