FieldsMetadataTemplate

Introduction

FieldsMetadata is used to manage lazy loop tables, images and text styling.

Ex:

FieldsMetadata metadata = report.createFieldsMetadata(); metadata.addFieldAsImage("logo", "project.Logo");

@FieldMetadata annotation

@FieldMetadata gives you the capability to manage metadata with annotations:

• description
• syntax for text styling

Alternatively to

https://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/wiki/ODTReportingJavaMainHTMLTextStyling

or

https://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/wiki/DocxReportingJavaMainHTMLTextStyling

Users can easily configure threw fieldmetadata annotation :

@FieldMetadata(syntaxKind="Html", description="HTML Formatted long text") public String getComment() { return comment; }

Sample

Imagine you have the Project Pojo :

public class Project {

private final String name;

public Project(String name) { this.name = name; }

public String getName() { return name; } }

and you wish to display the name of the project with Html syntax.

Without @FieldsMetadata

// 1) Create FieldsMetadata FieldsMetadata fieldsMetadata = report.createFieldsMetadata();

// 2) Set name as Html syntax fieldsMetadata.addFieldAsTextStyling("project.Name", SyntaxKind.Html);

With @FieldMetadata

Add @FieldMetadata in the Pojo class

@FieldMetadata(syntaxKind="Html", description="HTML text") public String getName() { return name; }

Load fields metadata to use information from the @FieldMetadata :

// 1) Create FieldsMetadata FieldsMetadata fieldsMetadata = report.createFieldsMetadata();

// 2) Load fields metadata from Java Class fieldsMetadata.load("project", Project.class);