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This powerful reporting library aims to simplify producing reports using iText. The most demanding and coding intensive tasks when producing reports with iText are how to get from data to report elements, how to style those blocks and how to evaluate (debug) the resulting report layout. Exactly those three tasks are simplified by this library: xml configuration and/or annotations to transform existing Java data objects into report block, provide styling information (css like, syntax independent) seperate from code, a firebug like debug mode to help evaluate your report.

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package com.vectorprint.report.itext;

/*
 * #%L
 * VectorPrintReport4.0
 * %%
 * Copyright (C) 2012 - 2013 VectorPrint
 * %%
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see .
 * #L%
 */


//~--- non-JDK imports --------------------------------------------------------

import com.itextpdf.text.Element;
import com.itextpdf.text.Section;
import com.vectorprint.VectorPrintException;
import com.vectorprint.report.data.types.Formatter;
import com.vectorprint.report.data.types.ReportValue;
import com.vectorprint.report.itext.style.BaseStyler;
import com.vectorprint.report.itext.style.StyleHelper;
import com.vectorprint.report.itext.style.stylers.SimpleColumns;
import java.util.List;

//~--- JDK imports ------------------------------------------------------------

/**
 * implementers should provide at least these methods for adding parts to a report.
 *
 * @author Eduard Drenth at VectorPrint.nl
 */
public interface ElementProducer extends ImageLoader, LayerManager {
   

   /**
    * Create an Element of a certain class, style it and add data to the element.
    *
    * @param 
    * @param data
    * @param stylers
    * @param elementClass
    * @return
    * @throws VectorPrintException
    * @throws InstantiationException
    * @throws IllegalAccessException
    */
    E createElement(Object data, Class elementClass, List stylers)
       throws VectorPrintException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException;
   
   /**
    * Create a Section with a title and a nesting level.
    *
    * @param title
    * @param nesting
    * @param stylers
    * @return the Chapter (level 1) or Section created
    */
   Section getIndex(String title, int nesting, List stylers)
       throws VectorPrintException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException;
   
   /**
    *
    * @param stylers the value of stylers
    */
   SimpleColumns createColumns(List stylers) throws VectorPrintException;

    /**
    * Return a formatted representation of the data, suggested way to do this is use {@link ReportValue} and a
    * {@link Formatter}
    * @param data
    * @return
    */
   String formatValue(Object data);
   
   Formatter getFormatter();

   StyleHelper getStyleHelper();
}