Submitted by jcstritt on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 02:09
I have a document that takes 20s for the rendering process (781 beans, 20 pages) with this java method :
DocumentProcessor.renderDoc(...)
Is there a way to show a java progressbar with docmosis info that is showing in debug mode, for example :
DEBUG com.docmosis.template.population.ReflectiveCollectionDataProvider - #Reflective call# calling hasDataProviderKey("etudiant") on delegate:BasicEventList@1026431
The documentation (Docmosis-developer-reference2.0.pdf) don't say anything for this.
Thank's
Ideal
Thank you for your detailed post.
Progress Is Difficult to Measure
Hello jcstritt.
You will find if you examine the logging information carefully, that Docmosis does this:
1) populates the document (about 1 second)
2) converts the document (about 19 seconds)
The steps of fetching the data (which make the DEBUG calls "#Reflective call#" etc) are all done in that first 1 second. So if we gave you progress information, it would jump straight to about 95%, then take most of the time to do the last 5%. This is obviously not very helpful as a progress indicator.
The conversion process is done in 3 stages and since it is often "remote" sending back progress information will be:
1) only 3 steps (33%, 67%, 100%) and each step does not take an even amount of time (so 33% is not even a good indicator)
2) increasing network traffic
So, overall Docmosis cannot provide very helpful progres information unless you think 33%, 67%, 100% is helpful. To do this we would have to enhance Docmosis and accept the increased network traffic.