Convert a batch of jrxml files into jasper files? - maven

Question

How to create a maven target to convert a batch of jrxml files into jasper files which are in the same folder?
The folder path can be the input argument of the command?

Answer 1

**- A full example of POM file.**
Command to Build All **Jrxml** to **Jasper File** in maven
If you used eclipse then right click on the project and Run as maven Build and add goals antrun:run#compile-jasper-reports
compile-jasper-reports is the id you gave in the pom file.
**<id>compile-jasper-reports</id>**
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.test`jasper</groupId>
<artifactId>testJasper</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>TestJasper</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.17</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
<version>6.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports-fonts</artifactId>
<version>6.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
<artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
<version>2.4.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
<artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
<version>5.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.5</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>compile-jasper-reports</id>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<target>
<echo message="Start compile of jasper reports" />
<mkdir dir="${project.build.directory}/classes/reports"/>
<echo message="${basedir}/src/main/resources/jasper/jasperreports" />
<taskdef name="jrc" classname="net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask"
classpathref="maven.compile.classpath" />
<jrc srcdir="${basedir}/src/main/resources/jasper/jasperreports" destdir="${basedir}/src/main/resources/jasper/jasperclassfile"
xmlvalidation="true">
<classpath refid="maven.compile.classpath"/>
<include name="**/*.jrxml" />
</jrc>
</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>

Answer 2

You have to specify configuration as below
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-beta-2</version>
<configuration>
<sourceDirectory>src/main/resources/reports</sourceDirectory>
<outputDirectory>src/main/resources/reports</outputDirectory>
</configuration> <!-- like here -->
<executions>
<!-- We need to wait until after the java classes have been compiled
to compile the reports -->
<execution>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>compile-reports</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-beta-2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
<version>${jasperreports.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
<artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
<version>${groovy.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
See this post. It specifies the same.
http://kaleeswaran14.blogspot.com/2012/05/compile-jasper-reports-with-maven.html