Package org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.modules.output.table.base

Common base classes for the table style output targets.

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Description

Interface Summary

CellMarker

Class Summary

AbstractTableOutputProcessor	The Table-Output processor uses the pagination stage to build a list of table-layouts.
BandMarker
CellBackground
CellBackgroundProducer
ContentMarker	Creation-Date: 04.10.2007, 14:54:24
DefaultTextExtractor	Creation-Date: 02.11.2007, 14:14:23
FinishedMarker	Creation-Date: 04.10.2007, 14:54:24
FlowReportProcessor	Creation-Date: 03.05.2007, 10:30:45
SheetLayout	The sheet layout is used to build the background map and to collect the x- and y-cell-borders.
SheetLayoutCollection	Deprecated. no longer used.
SheetLayoutTableCellDefinition	Todo: Document me! Date: 31.03.2010 Time: 16:34:01
StreamReportProcessor	Creation-Date: 03.05.2007, 10:30:02
TableBaseModule	The module definition for the table export modules.
TableContentProducer	After the pagination was able to deriveForAdvance the table-structure (all column and row-breaks are now known), this second step flattens the layout-tree into a two-dimensional table structure.
TableCutList	Creation-Date: 26.08.2007, 15:06:45
TableExportRenderBoxState
TableLayoutProducer	Creation-Date: 02.05.2007, 18:31:37
TableRectangle	The TableRectangle contains GridCoordinates for the tables.

Package org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.modules.output.table.base Description

Common base classes for the table style output targets.

Limitations

The TableExports add several restrictions to the report layouts.

Report elements must not overlay each other. It is ok for bands, but the actual data must never overlap. Once a cell is occupied, it cannot be redefined to contain data from other elements. CellData cannot be combined.

Backgrounds can only be defined for the complete cell.

How does the table export work?

All table targets use a two step process to create the output. In the first step, the layout is computed and styles information is collected. The style information will later be reused to form cascading stylesheets or to fill the Excel style tables.

Cell backgrounds are computed during the pagination phase and are stored in the SheetLayout; The content itself is only stored during the content-generation phase and is held in the TableContentProducer. Once the page is completed the computed content and the sheet-layout instace are forwarded to the Output-processor implementations.