org.zkoss.zkex.zul.impl

Class JFreeChartEngine

java.lang.Object

org.zkoss.zkex.zul.impl.JFreeChartEngine

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, ChartEngine

public class JFreeChartEngine
extends java.lang.Object
implements ChartEngine, java.io.Serializable

A chart engine implemented with JFreeChart.

Available in ZK PE and ZK EE.

This is the JFreeChart base chart engine implementation. All chart would support drilldown by providing Area hot spots. Each Area would callback to ChartAreaListener class that application developers can do processing on each area.

Note that useful ChartModel information is put in Area's custom attribute Map so you can retrieve them by calling Area's getAttribute(key) method and use them in drilldown function. Following is the table of keys for different ChartModel.

model	key
PieModel	entity
	category
	value
CategoryModel	entity
	series
	category
	value
XYModel	entity
	series
	x
	y
XYZModel	entity
since 3.5.0	series
	x
	y
	z
HiLoModel	entity
	series
	date
	open
	high
	low
	close
	volumn

Following is the explanation for each key:

• entity: entity is used to distinguish the different entities on a chart. It might be TITLE, CATEGORY, DATA, LEGEND. The most important entity might be DATA entity where the real chart data point is located. For example, the DATA Area is each slice in a Pie chart.
• category: category name of the associated data.
• value: value of the associated data.
• series: series name of the associated data.
• x: x value of the XYModel and XYZModel
• y: y value of the XYModel and XYZModel
• z: z value of the XYZModel
• date, open, high, low, close, volumn: data of the HiLoModel

See also jFreeChart.

Since:

3.0.0

Author:

henrichen

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
JFreeChartEngine()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
byte[]	drawChart(java.lang.Object data) Draw the chart and render into image format as an byte array.
protected java.lang.String	getGanttTaskTooltip(java.util.Date start, java.util.Date end, java.lang.Number percent) Returns data tooltiptext of the GanttTask.
protected boolean	prepareJFreeChart(org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart jfchart, Chart chart) Developers with special needs can override this method to apply own rendering properties on the created JFreeChart.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

JFreeChartEngine

public JFreeChartEngine()

Method Detail

prepareJFreeChart

protected boolean prepareJFreeChart(org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart jfchart,
                        Chart chart)

Developers with special needs can override this method to apply own rendering properties on the created JFreeChart. The original implementation of this method simply return false to tell the engine to apply its default rendering properties. Return true tells the engine NOT to apply its default rendering properties.

Parameters:

jfchart - the created JFreeChart

chart - the ZK chart component associated with this ChartEngine.

Returns:

true to tell this engine NOT to apply its default rendering properties; false to tell this engine TO apply its default rendering properties.

Since:

3.0.1

drawChart

public byte[] drawChart(java.lang.Object data)

Description copied from interface: ChartEngine

Draw the chart and render into image format as an byte array.

Specified by:

drawChart in interface ChartEngine

Parameters:

data - the data used in drawing a chart; depends on implementation.

getGanttTaskTooltip

protected java.lang.String getGanttTaskTooltip(java.util.Date start,
                                   java.util.Date end,
                                   java.lang.Number percent)

Returns data tooltiptext of the GanttTask.

Parameters:

start - the starting date

end - the ending date

percent - the complete percentage

Returns:

data tooltiptext of the GanttTask.