Apparatus and method for routing composite objects to a report server

• US 7,555,495 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2006
• Issued: 06/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Business Objects Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Business Objects Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Chu, Cheong-Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong; Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen; Merilyn P
• Application Number:
  US11/403,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20070244848A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,175 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 4, 707100-102, 707/103.R, 705/1, 705/4
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure

Abstract

A computer readable medium stores computer executable instructions to receive a collection of composite objects. An aggregate dataset that includes a portion of the contents of object instances in the collection of objects is created. The aggregate dataset is passed to a report server. A report that includes data from the aggregate dataset is accepted.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium storing instructions executed on a computer, comprising instructions to:

receive a collection of composite objects;

perform a reflection operation on a representative object instance in the collection of composite objects;

create an aggregate dataset that includes a portion of contents of object instances in the collection of composite objects, wherein the instructions to create an aggregate dataset comprise instructions to generate the portion of contents of object instances by reflection, wherein the reflection comprises obtaining type information of the object instances in the collection of objects;

construct a template for the aggregate dataset, wherein the aggregate dataset stores contents of each simple data type found in the representative object instance in the collection of composite objects;

duplicate the template for object instances in the collection of composite objects;

populate each duplicate template with a value of each simple data type found in object instances in the collection of composite objects;

pass the aggregate dataset to a report server; and

accept a report that includes data from the aggregate dataset.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the portion of the contents includes a simple data type.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to serialize the aggregate dataset.