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[Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Randy

Do you get any error messages?

I don't know much about Jasper, but some software can work with urls like
https://username:password@URL

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Morten

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Wilson, Randy <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been struggling to get data from the web API into JasperStudio to
> create standard iReports.
>
> I've created a new datasource of type: XML document (remote)
>
> I can pull data from sites that don't need authentication into the
> iReport, such as this rss feed from bbc:
> http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=int#
>
> then I can create a report that runs fine using xpath2 as the query
> language.
> (See info here:http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/remote-xml-datasource)
>
> I can also use curl to get the data I need as an xml file - such as this,
>
> curl -u admin:district "
> https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/dataValueSets.json?dataSet=pBOMPrpg1QX&period=201401&orgUnit=DiszpKrYNg8
> "
>
> But I can't manage to format the url correctly to pass username and
> password for DHIS-2 within iReport.  I'm sure it is something with the
> parameters.
>
> Has anyone else sorted this out already?  Would be very useful for a
> variety of reporting tasks.
>
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