DataBinding
28 Jun 201718 minutes to read
Binding PivotChart to Collection
This section demonstrates binding of a collection to the PivotChart control as datasource. For more information on this datasource refer to the following links.
When you are using WebAPI controller, refer to the “Datasource Initialization” section under the following link.
If you are using WCF Service, refer the “Datasource Initialization” section below.
WCF
Adding a WCF Service
To add a WCF service in an existing web application, right-click on the project in Solution Explorer and select Add > New Item. In the Add New Item window, select WCF Service and name it as “RelationalService.svc” and click Add.
Now WCF service is added into your application successfully which in-turn comprise of the following files. The utilization of these files will be explained in the immediate sections.
- RelationalService.svc
- RelationalService.svc.cs
- IRelationalService.cs
Configuring WCF Service Class
Remove the “DoWork” method present inside both RelationalService.svc.cs and IRelationalService.cs files. Next, add “AspNetCompatibilityRequirements” attribute on top of main class present inside RelationalService.svc.cs and set “RequirementsMode” value to “Allowed”.
namespace PivotChartDemo
{
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
public class RelationalService : IRelationalService
{
}
}List of Dependency Libraries
Next you need to add the below mentioned dependency libraries into your Web Application. These libraries could be found in GAC (Global Assembly Cache) as well.
To add them to your Web Application, right-click on References in Solution Explorer and select Add Reference. Now in the Reference Manager dialog, under Assemblies > Extension, the following Syncfusion libraries are found.
- Syncfusion.Compression.Base
- Syncfusion.Linq.Base
- Syncfusion.Olap.Base
- Syncfusion.PivotAnalysis.Base
- Syncfusion.XlsIO.Base
- Syncfusion.Pdf.Base
- Syncfusion.DocIO.Base
- Syncfusion.EJ
- Syncfusion.EJ.Web
- Syncfusion.EJ.Pivot
List of Namespaces
Following are the list of namespaces to be added on top of the main class inside RelationalService.svc.cs file.
using System.ServiceModel.Activation;
using Syncfusion.JavaScript;
using Syncfusion.PivotAnalysis.Base;
namespace PivotChartDemo
{
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
public class RelationalService : IRelationalService
{
}
}Datasource Initialization
A simple collection is provided as a datasource for our PivotChart in this demo section. This datasource is placed inside a separate class named “ProductSales” in RelationalService.svc.cs file. Refer to the following code example.
namespace PivotChartDemo
{
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
public class RelationalService : IRelationalService
{
//....
//....
}
internal class ProductSales
{
public string Product { get; set; }
public string Date { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
public string State { get; set; }
public int Quantity { get; set; }
public double Amount { get; set; }
public static ProductSalesCollection GetSalesData()
{
/// Geography
string[] countries = new string[] { "Australia", "Canada", "France", "Germany", "United Kingdom", "United States" };
string[] ausStates = new string[] { "New South Wales", "Queensland", "South Australia", "Tasmania", "Victoria" };
string[] canadaStates = new string[] { "Alberta", "British Columbia", "Brunswick", "Manitoba", "Ontario", "Quebec" };
string[] franceStates = new string[] { "Charente-Maritime", "Essonne", "Garonne (Haute)", "Gers", };
string[] germanyStates = new string[] { "Bayern", "Brandenburg", "Hamburg", "Hessen", "Nordrhein-Westfalen", "Saarland" };
string[] ukStates = new string[] { "England" };
string[] ussStates = new string[] { "New York", "North Carolina", "Alabama", "California", "Colorado", "New Mexico", "South Carolina" };
/// Time
string[] dates = new string[] { "FY 2005", "FY 2006", "FY 2007", "FY 2008", "FY 2009" };
/// Products
string[] products = new string[] { "Bike", "Van", "Car" };
Random r = new Random(123345345);
int numberOfRecords = 2000;
ProductSalesCollection listOfProductSales = new ProductSalesCollection();
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfRecords; i++)
{
ProductSales sales = new ProductSales();
sales.Country = countries[r.Next(1, countries.GetLength(0))];
sales.Quantity = r.Next(1, 12);
/// 1 percent discount for 1 quantity
double discount = (30000 * sales.Quantity) * (double.Parse(sales.Quantity.ToString()) / 100);
sales.Amount = (30000 * sales.Quantity) - discount;
sales.Date = dates[r.Next(r.Next(dates.GetLength(0) + 1))];
sales.Product = products[r.Next(r.Next(products.GetLength(0) + 1))];
switch (sales.Product)
{
case "Car":
{
sales.Date = "FY 2005";
break;
}
}
switch (sales.Country)
{
case "Australia":
{
sales.State = ausStates[r.Next(ausStates.GetLength(0))];
break;
}
case "Canada":
{
sales.State = canadaStates[r.Next(canadaStates.GetLength(0))];
break;
}
case "France":
{
sales.State = franceStates[r.Next(franceStates.GetLength(0))];
break;
}
case "Germany":
{
sales.State = germanyStates[r.Next(germanyStates.GetLength(0))];
break;
}
case "United Kingdom":
{
sales.State = ukStates[r.Next(ukStates.GetLength(0))];
break;
}
case "United States":
{
sales.State = ussStates[r.Next(ussStates.GetLength(0))];
break;
}
}
listOfProductSales.Add(sales);
}
return listOfProductSales;
}
public override string ToString()
{
return string.Format("{0}-{1}-{2}", this.Country, this.State, this.Product);
}
public class ProductSalesCollection : List<ProductSales>
{
}
}
}Service methods in WCF Service
First, you need to define the service methods inside IRelationalService interface, found in IRelationalService.cs file, created while adding WCF service to your Web Application.
namespace PivotChartDemo
{
[ServiceContract]
public interface IRelationalService
{
[OperationContract]
Dictionary<string, object> InitializeChart(string action, string currentReport, string customObject);
[OperationContract]
Dictionary<string, object> DrillChart(string action, string drilledSeries);
}
}Secondly, you need to elaborate the service methods inside the main class, found in RelationalService.svc.cs file.
namespace PivotChartDemo
{
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
public class RelationalService : IRelationalService
{
PivotChart pivotChart = new PivotChart();
public Dictionary<string, object> InitializeChart(string action, string currentReport, string customObject)
{
this.BindData();
return pivotChart.GetJsonData(action, ProductSales.GetSalesData());
}
public Dictionary<string, object> DrillChart(string action, string drilledSeries)
{
this.BindData();
return pivotChart.GetJsonData(action, ProductSales.GetSalesData(), drilledSeries);
}
private void BindData()
{
this.pivotChart.PivotEngine.PivotRows.Add(new PivotItem { FieldMappingName = "Country", FieldHeader = "Country", TotalHeader = "Total" });
this.pivotChart.PivotEngine.PivotRows.Add(new PivotItem { FieldMappingName = "State", FieldHeader = "State", TotalHeader = "Total" });
this.pivotChart.PivotEngine.PivotRows.Add(new PivotItem { FieldMappingName = "Date", FieldHeader = "Date", TotalHeader = "Total" });
this.pivotChart.PivotEngine.PivotColumns.Add(new PivotItem { FieldMappingName = "Product", FieldHeader = "Product", TotalHeader = "Total" });
this.pivotChart.PivotEngine.PivotCalculations.Add(new PivotComputationInfo { CalculationName = "Amount", Description = "Amount", FieldHeader = "Amount", FieldName = "Amount", Format = "C", SummaryType = Syncfusion.PivotAnalysis.Base.SummaryType.DoubleTotalSum });
}
}
.....
..... // Datasource initialization
.....
}Configuring Web Configuration File
You can expose services through the properties such as binding, contract and address by using an endpoint.
- contract: This property indicates that the contract of the endpoint is exposing. Here you are referring to
IRelationalServicecontract and hence it isPivotChartDemo.IRelationalService. - binding: In your application, you use
webHttpBindingto post and receive the requests and responses between the client-end and the service. - behaviorConfiguration: This property contains the name of the behavior to be used in the endpoint.
The endpointBehaviors are illustrated as follows.
<system.serviceModel>
……
……
<services>
<service name="PivotChartDemo.RelationalService">
<endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="PivotChartDemo.RelationalServiceAspNetAjaxBehavior"
binding="webHttpBinding" contract="PivotChartDemo.IRelationalService" />
</service>
</services>
</system.serviceModel>The endpointBehaviors contain all the behaviors for an endpoint. You can link each endpoint to the respective behavior only by using this name property.
<system.serviceModel>
<behaviors>
<endpointBehaviors>
<behavior name="PivotChartDemo.RelationalServiceAspNetAjaxBehavior">
<enableWebScript />
</behavior>
</endpointBehaviors>
</behaviors>
……
……
</system.serviceModel>NOTE
In this example, “PivotChartDemo” indicates the name and root namespace of the Web Application created in Visual Studio IDE and “RelationalService” indicates the name of the WCF service created.
Now, PivotChart will be rendered with sales amount details over a set of products across different countries.
