Oracle Business Intelligence Beans Sample

Modifying Graphs

Overview

The Modifying Graphs sample demonstrates how a BI Beans application can generate a Graph using query builder and Graph format panels. BIGraph extends BIFrame, which provides a connection to Oracle OLAP.

BIGraph provides a menu to invoke a QueryBuilder that runs in a wizard mode. The following graph format panels are added to this wizard at run time: GraphLayout, GraphType, Legend, Title, PlotArea, GroupAxis (O1Axis), and ValueAxis (X1, Y1 and Y2Axis). This sample also provides menus to invoke these panels individually.

Code Highlights

The Graph bean provides various formatting panels to set attributes of various graph components. This sample show how to create these panels and add them to a wizard. This sample also uses the QueryBuilder to generate the query. The QueryBuilder bean can also be run in wizard mode, so instead of creating a wizard provided by JEWT or the JDK, this sample shows how to add panels to Query Builder in wizard mode. The following line shows how to set wizard mode on the QueryBuilder.

   m_queryBuilder.setMode(QueryBuilder.WIZARD);

This is a sample of how a graph type panel is initialized and added to the wizard:

    // adding graph type panel to query builder wizard
    StandardWizardPanel wizPanel = new StandardWizardPanel ("GraphType");
    if(m_graphTypePanel == null)
      m_graphTypePanel = new GraphType(m_graph);
    else
      m_graphTypePanel.setGraph(m_graph);
    wizPanel.add (m_graphTypePanel);
    m_queryBuilder.addPanel((StandardPanel) wizPanel, QueryBuilder.LAYOUT_PANEL_ID);

The QueryBuilder wizard expects an instance of the StandardPanel interface, so the StandardWizardPanel class is written to implement that interface. To listen to the wizard's event, a WizardListener is added:

((QueryBuilderDialog)m_queryBuilder.getContainer()).getWizard().addWizardListener(this);

following methods are provided by this listener:

  public void wizardSelectionChanged(WizardEvent e);
  public void wizardValidatePage(WizardEvent e);
  public void wizardApplyState(WizardEvent e);
  public void wizardCanceled(WizardEvent e);
  public void wizardFinished(WizardEvent e);

To invoke an individual panel, an ActionListener is added to each menu.

    m_graphTypeMenu.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
        _showGraphTypeDialog();
      }
    });

Each panel is invoked in a dialog that contains Apply and Cancel buttons. An Error dialog is displayed if the graph is null.

  private void _showGraphTypeDialog() {
    if(m_graph == null) {
      JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Graph is null", "Error!", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
      return;
    }
   if(m_graphTypePanel == null)
    m_graphTypePanel = new GraphType(m_graph);
   else
    m_graphTypePanel.setGraph(m_graph);
   PanelDialog d = new PanelDialog( WindowUtils.parentFrame(this),"Graph Type", m_graphTypePanel);
   d.show();
  }

This sample also updates the status bar with the name of the selected graph subcomponent. To do this, a ViewMouseListener is added to the generated graph:

    m_graph.addViewMouseListener( new ViewMouseListenerAdapter()  {
     // Invoked when a mouse button has been pressed on a component.
     public void mousePressed(ViewMouseEvent e) {
       getStatusBar().setText(" Currently selected object is " + m_graph.getSelectedObject().getName());
     }
    }
  );


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