ToolUp.Reporting.Server 0.22.0

ToolUp.Reporting

Companion package providing typed-template document generation for applications built on ToolUp.Platform. Ships the IReportRenderer interface, default MarkdownRenderer + HtmlRenderer (zero-deps), IReportTemplateStore over IEntityStore, the ReportApi ToolUp.Remoting endpoint, and ReportingCompose (registers the renderer registry + API handler against a ServerApp).

Each output format that needs a real renderer (PDF / DOCX / XLSX) lives in its own sub-companion under src/Reporting/ so a deployment that only needs PDF doesn't pay for the OpenXml dep, and vice versa. Pptx is the exception — deck output is served by a downstream document-emission tier rather than by a renderer here; see Deck export below.

Apache-2.0; part of the ToolUp Platform SDK.

Why a separate companion

Two reasons it doesn't live in ToolUp.Platform:

1. Vendor SDK weight. PDF / DOCX / XLSX renderers pull in QuestPDF or DocumentFormat.OpenXml; deployments that don't need document generation shouldn't pay for those deps.
2. Audit + storage integration. The renderer composes with IEntityStore (template persistence), IDataObjectStore (rendered-blob storage with versioning), and IAuditLog (ReportRendered events). Keeping that wiring inside a companion (rather than threading it into the core SDK) preserves the "core ships only opinion-light substrate" principle.

Activation

open ToolUp.Reporting

ServerApp.empty
|> ServerApp.addModules [ /* your modules */ ]
|> ReportingServerApp.run

ReportingServerApp.run is a flat superset of ServerApp.run — every existing capability passes through, plus the reporting endpoints and renderer registry.

Built-in renderers

• MarkdownRenderer — pure F#, zero deps. Templates use {{key}} placeholders; {{#each items}} … {{/each}} for tables.
• HtmlRenderer — pure F# + System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode. Same placeholder syntax; values HTML-encoded by default.

Sub-companions (separate NuGets)

• ToolUp.Reporting.Pdf — QuestPDF-backed (community-licensed under $1M revenue/yr).
• ToolUp.Reporting.Docx — DocumentFormat.OpenXml.
• ToolUp.Reporting.Xlsx — DocumentFormat.OpenXml. Includes the cell-address-map binding mode (Map<CellAddress, ExcelCellValue> shape that writes values directly into specific cells without template-side {{key}} markup) — load-bearing for the Excel-to-ToolUp converter portal's runtime export path.

Each sub-companion ships in its own NuGet so deployments compose only what they need. There is no ToolUp.Reporting.Pptx, and there will not be one — see below.

Deck export

TemplateFormat enumerates Pptx, and nothing here renders it. A render request for that format refuses with the typed RenderError.FormatServedByDeckTier, which is deliberately distinct from NoRendererForFormat: there is no package to add. Deck output is produced by a downstream document-emission tier that reads the deployment's exported result set (narrative + fact refs + provenance) and emits typed deck parts — a useful deck being a regenerable projection of governed results rather than a rendered template.

This companion's contribution to that tier is the chart-artifact handoff (ChartArtifact): the deployment's own deterministic chart grammar, exposed as content-hashed, provenance-stamped embeddable artifacts. Full rationale and the composition shape: docs/platform/reporting.md.

Licensed under Apache-2.0. Part of the ToolUp Platform SDK — see github.com/ToolUp-Forge/toolup-forge for full documentation.