| Re: [birt-dev] Birt support for JSON |
There were a few reasons, both technical and political, as to why this was never fully implemented. However, since actuate is no longer part of the project, those obstacles are no longer there. I'll see if I still have the source to the original JSON ODA and emitters. Since I was going to try to get the MongoDB stuff updated to work with the modern MongoDB engine, maybe I'll add the JSON stuff alongside it. -John -------- Original message -------- From: Yair Lenga <yair.lenga@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 10/17/22 2:13 AM (GMT-06:00) To: birt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [birt-dev] Birt support for JSON I have been a long term user of BIRT (from 2002 to 2010), and was forced to move to other solution, as the product went side way under actuate/opentext. Happy to see it coming back, as it was one of my favorite. One of the major limitation was JSON support. During Opentext days as BIRT main contributor, a very buggy data source for JSON was introduced. I I did not look at the current 4.10 version (will do in coming weeks). Does anyone know what is the state of the JSON dara source ? The XML data source was much more powerful (and reliable), and we used to convert json to xml, and generate report. If the json data source is not usable/abandoned - possible to fix it ? If not, I wonder if possible to clone the XML data source, replace the XML parser with JSON parser. XPATH path with jsonpath, and have a reporting tool capable of connecting with modern rest services. Even if the temporary solution will be to internally convert json to xml it will be a big win. considering built in _javascript_ with RHINO, will be a big upside. Yair Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ birt-dev mailing list birt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this list, visit https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/birt-dev |