ukase

Ukase is renderer for html, pdf and simple xlsx files written as service with Java 8. Releases provided as self-runnable war that bundled with Spring Boot.

Get&configure

Get

There are two ways:

• Download release from GitHub (ukase-x.x.x.war file)
• Extend/get/repack with maven build system:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.ukase</groupId>
    <artifactId>ukase</artifactId>
    <version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>

• Download release using maven shell command (buggy method to get - work well only if you have copy in local repo, otherwise problems are possible):

mvn dependency:get -Dartifact=com.github.ukase:ukase:LATEST:war -Dtransitive=false -Ddest=ukase.jar

Configure

1. Create directory for this application
2. Move there downloaded war file
3. Create config subfolder
4. Create application.yml file there:

• sample for development environment
• sample for prod environment

Start

You can start application:

• in your web application container (like tomcat or jetty)
• using included SpringBoot runner: java -jar name_of_saved_war.war

Usage

We propogate next usage templates:

• prod
  • using by some subsystem of other application to generate pdf-s over UKase API
• development
  • using by development environment of any application to generate pdf-s over UKase API
  • using by developer to create and modify pdf templates. For these case we have UI that enables view and view's auto-refresh on any template change.

Xlsx rendering feature

Xlsx rendering feature docs

UKase API

Short list (more):

• POST /api/html
• POST /api/pdf
• GET /api/pdf/{templateName}
• POST /api/bulk/sync
• POST /api/xlsx Async API
• POST /api/async/xlsx
• POST /api/async/pdf/bulk
• GET /api/async/{id}/status
• GET /api/async/{id}

License 📜

Ukase is available over GNU Affero General Public License (see more information here);