Package org.jfree.report.content

Report contents.

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Description

Interface Summary

Content	An interface for report content.
ContentFactory	The content factory is resopnsible for creating content from a given element and the rawdata contained in the element's datasource.
ContentFactoryModule	The ContentFactoryModule is a delegator for the DefaultContentFactory.
MultipartContent	The MultipartContent is used to mark content that consists of several subcontent elements.

Class Summary

AnchorContent	The Anchor content encapsulates possible link targets.
AnchorContentFactoryModule	The anchor content factory-module is responsible for creating the AnchorContent from an element containing Anchors.
ContentContainer	A report content item that contains other report content items.
ContentType	A class for representing a content type.
DefaultContentFactory	The DefaultContentFactory provides a default implementation for output targets.
DrawableContent	A simple wrapper around the DrawableContainer.
DrawableContentFactoryModule	A factory module for drawable content.
EmptyContent	The empty content is a place holder for all cases, where no other content should be displayed.
ImageContent	The Image content is a wrapper around a java.awt.Image object.
ImageContentFactoryModule	The ImageContentFactoryModule creates image content from the given element.
ShapeContent	A report content item that encapsulates a Shape object.
ShapeContentFactoryModule	The ShapeContentFactoryModule is used to create a content wrapper for java.awt.Shape objects.
ShapeTransform	Utility class, which resizes or translates a Shape.
TextContent	A container for text content.
TextContentFactoryModule	The TextContentFactoryModule creates plain text content from the given element.
TextLine	Represents a line of text.
TextParagraph	A paragraph of an given text content.

Exception Summary

ContentCreationException

A ContentCreationException is thrown whenever a content could not be created.

Package org.jfree.report.content Description

Report contents. Contents are abstract views of the data that should be printed in the OutputTarget. There are 3 known types of content yet: Text, Shapes and Images. The abstract view allows the logical page to format the content without knowing any details about the content itself.

Content may be split into several parts, so that portions of content for specific bounds can be extracted.

To create contents, an LayoutSupport defines a ContentFactory. This factory is resopnsible to create the content from the Element's value, if the OutputTarget does support the elements content type.

How content is created and used within the report processing

• The ContentFactory is used to create the content for the elements. The elements getValue() method is used to read the assigned content for the element. This raw data and the elements style definition is used to create the content. When using the DefaultContentFactory, the content is created using one of the defined ContentFactoryModules.
• The Content is then used to compute the size for the dynamic elements by the BandLayoutManager.
• PageableLayout: Once the layout is complete, the content is used in the logical page to create the required PhysicalOperations needed to display the content in the OutputTarget. This conversion is done by one of the OperationModules of the OutputTargets or LogicalPages OperationFactory.
• The generated PhysicalOperations are added to the physical page and finally printed when the physical page is closed.

Note: This package will move into 'libLayout' during the next versions.