Older versions of Jasper Reports

[rbellamy]

I'm working on a large project that uses jasperreports-3.7.0. Needless to say, your wonderful plugin won't work for me as-is.

I toyed with the idea of refactoring to treat the properties differently, depending on which API is available (3.7 doesn't have the DefaultJasperReportsContext, instead using JRProperties) - but that's terribly messy. Multiple ClassLoaders, or wiring up the DI - all require some runtime magic. And the tests would have to be enhanced to include older versions as well.

For now, I've forked this repo and am going to deploy a jasperreports-3.7.0 version into my private Nexus repo with a changed groupId. Not a great community-contributing way of dealing with it, but it'll get me moving forward.

I'd be happy to contribute something back here, if you have a suggestion that you think would work? Given the longevity of Jasper Reports, I can't imagine I'm the only one to have this need.

[rbellamy]

I see that you started this project with jasperreports-3.7.6.

[alexnederlof]

yes so you could also use one of the previous versions. I also couldn't figure out a clean way to make the version configurable.

I could have gone for multiple releases like 1.0-3.x and 1.0-4.x for example, but that was too much hassle, since I'd have to maintain two versions.

[rbellamy]

That makes perfect sense. I ended up forking this repo and then publishing a modified version to my internal repository.