Jasper Reports Components not rendering properly in JavaFX Swing Node

Question

For creating Jasper Report in JavaFX 11 I am using dynamic reports. I am loading report inside Swing Node but Jasper report appears only if I will click on the stack pane area and and all other components visible only if I hover over all those components. Components and report contents not loading instantly rather than it is showing on mouse hovering and report is showing when scrolling over the Stack Pane.

As this was the bug in Java 8 and seems to be resolved but in Java 11 too I am getting the same issue.

Update

Since I am not getting any response and as suggested by kleopatra I have created minimal reproducible code. Please look into this.

JavaFxJasperReportsDemo.java

package demo;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.embed.swing.SwingNode;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.fxml.FXML;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.stage.WindowEvent;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.jasper.builder.JasperReportBuilder;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.builder.DynamicReports;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.builder.column.Columns;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.builder.component.Components;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.builder.datatype.DataTypes;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.constant.HorizontalTextAlignment;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.exception.DRException;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperPrint;
import net.sf.jasperreports.swing.JRViewer;

public class JavaFxJasperReportsDemo extends Application{

    @FXML
    private StackPane stackPane;

    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception{

        try{
            System.out.println("Hello");
            Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("/FXMLJavaFXJasperReportsDemo.fxml"));
            Scene scene = new Scene(root);
            stage.setScene(scene);
            stage.setTitle("Java FX Demo");
            stage.show();
            stage.setOnCloseRequest(new EventHandler<WindowEvent>() {
                public void handle(WindowEvent arg0) {
                    Platform.exit();
                }
            });
        }
        catch (Exception e){
            throw e;
        }
    }


    @FXML
    public void loadReport(ActionEvent event) {
        JasperReportBuilder report = DynamicReports.report();
        List<DemoPOJO> lstDemoPOJOs=new ArrayList<DemoPOJO>();
        DemoPOJO demoPOJO=new DemoPOJO();
        demoPOJO.setName("ABC");
        demoPOJO.setCity("Delhi");
        lstDemoPOJOs.add(demoPOJO);
        demoPOJO = new DemoPOJO();
        demoPOJO.setName("XYZ");
        demoPOJO.setCity("Agra");
        lstDemoPOJOs.add(demoPOJO);
        report
        .columns(
                Columns.columnRowNumberColumn("S No"),
                Columns.column("Name", "name", DataTypes.stringType()),
                Columns.column("Address", "city", DataTypes.stringType())
                ).title(
                Components.text("Demo Java Fx Jasper Reports").
                setHorizontalTextAlignment(HorizontalTextAlignment.CENTER))
        .pageFooter(Components.pageXofY())
        .setDataSource(lstDemoPOJOs);

        try {
            JasperPrint jasperPrintReport=report.toJasperPrint();
            SwingNode swingNode = new SwingNode();
            AnchorPane.setTopAnchor(swingNode,0.0);
            AnchorPane.setBottomAnchor(swingNode,0.0);
            AnchorPane.setLeftAnchor(swingNode,0.0);
            AnchorPane.setRightAnchor(swingNode,0.0);
            JRViewer jrViewer=   new JRViewer(jasperPrintReport);
            SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() ->swingNode.setContent(jrViewer)
                    );
            stackPane.getChildren().add(swingNode);
        } catch (DRException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        System.out.println("Hello Main");
        try{
            launch(args);
        }
        catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

DemoPOJO.java

package demo;

public class DemoPOJO {

    String name;

    String city;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getCity() {
        return city;
    }

    public void setCity(String city) {
        this.city = city;
    }
}

FXMLJavaFXJasperReportsDemo.fxml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?import javafx.scene.control.Button?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.Label?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane?>

<AnchorPane maxHeight="-Infinity" maxWidth="-Infinity" minHeight="-Infinity" minWidth="-Infinity" prefHeight="561.0" prefWidth="745.0" xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/11.0.1" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1" fx:controller="demo.JavaFxJasperReportsDemo">
   <children>
      <Label layoutX="345.0" layoutY="24.0" text="Java FX Demo Application" />
      <StackPane fx:id="stackPane" layoutX="14.0" layoutY="120.0" prefHeight="392.0" prefWidth="722.0" />
      <Button layoutX="62.0" layoutY="68.0" mnemonicParsing="false" onAction="#loadReport" text="Load Report" />
   </children>
</AnchorPane>

Dependencies I am using are:-

<dependency>
    <groupId>net.sourceforge.dynamicreports</groupId>
    <artifactId>dynamicreports-core</artifactId>
    <version>6.1.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-controls</artifactId>
    <version>11</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-fxml</artifactId>
    <version>11</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.11</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-swing</artifactId>
    <version>11-ea+24</version>
</dependency>

Output

1. After clicking on load report button only one save icon is visible no report is visible.

2. After clicking on Stack Pane Area now Report is visible.

3. After hovering over another icon now Print icon is visible.

4. After hovering over other icons as well they are getting visible one by one.

Answer 1

After checking the OpenJDK wiki for OpenJFX debug flags you might try following.

add in build section of the pom.xml a JVM option for OpenJFX

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.4</version>
    <configuration>
        <mainClass>demo.JavaFxJasperReportsDemo</mainClass>
        <options>
            <option>-Dprism.verbose=true</option>
        </options>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

execute the app with mvn javafx:run it will report the detected Prism configuration

output on my system

Prism pipeline init order: es2 sw 
Using Double Precision Marlin Rasterizer
Using dirty region optimizations
Not using texture mask for primitives
Not forcing power of 2 sizes for textures
Using hardware CLAMP_TO_ZERO mode
Opting in for HiDPI pixel scaling
Prism pipeline name = com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline
Loading ES2 native library ... prism_es2
    succeeded.
GLFactory using com.sun.prism.es2.X11GLFactory
(X) Got class = class com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline
Initialized prism pipeline: com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline
...
Graphics Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center
       Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile 
        Version: 3.0 Mesa 19.3.2

it's using a hardware accelerated renderer Loading ES2 native library ... prism_es2

It's possible to force the usage of the software renderer. Change in the pom.xml

        <options>
            <option>-Dprism.verbose=true</option>
            <option>-Dprism.order=sw</option
        </options>

the output is then

Prism pipeline init order: sw 
Using Double Precision Marlin Rasterizer
Using dirty region optimizations
Not using texture mask for primitives
Not forcing power of 2 sizes for textures
Using hardware CLAMP_TO_ZERO mode
Opting in for HiDPI pixel scaling
*** Fallback to Prism SW pipeline
Prism pipeline name = com.sun.prism.sw.SWPipeline
(X) Got class = class com.sun.prism.sw.SWPipeline
Initialized prism pipeline: com.sun.prism.sw.SWPipeline
 vsync: true vpipe: false

It's using the software renderer Fallback to Prism SW pipeline.

versions used for above tests:

JDK

java version "11.0.2" 2019-01-15 LTS
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.2+9-LTS)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11.0.2+9-LTS, mixed mode)

Maven

Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f)

Answer 2

I was also having a similar problem but i solved it by adding the following maven dependency to my project. I thought it could help someone. Please not i have preferred to use JRViewerFX because it solves the problem and the UI is far much better than the swing.

<dependency>
    <groupId>win.zqxu</groupId>
    <artifactId>jrviewer-fx</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.1</version>

</dependency>

Here the code section that implements it

        JRViewerFX viewer = new JRViewerFX(jasperprint_report);        

              Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {
                  @Override
                  public void run() {

                      report_scroll_pane.setContent(viewer);
                  }
              });