Patching JPivot to filter by multiple members belonging to the same dimension

A very annoying problem with the release of JPivot shipped with the actual release of Pentaho is that you can only select one member from the same cube dimension at a time. But frequently we would like to select more than one member at a time. So what a good opportunity to build a patched release of JPivot and make that happens!

The first thing I made was try to test that by writing a sample MDX query on the SteelWheels cube that had, as a filter, a tuple made up by a set of members belonging to the same dimension. It worked. Infact, starting from Mondrian 3.1.2.13008, the OLAP engine supported compound slicers that makes this possible. After this very brief verification I was convinced to continue in my adventure and the next step was to find out where was the latest JPivot sources. As stated by Will Gorman in the post #7 of this thread the latest and good sources are in the obvious place... the JPivot CVS Repository of the JPivot project on SourceForge. So I get it and started my work.

The patch wasn't so difficult to be done and I reached easily my goal. It was a good opportunity to go into the internals of JPivot and learn about it. The new PAT is not round the corner so my opinion is that JPivot will be the production OLAP viewer of choice for Pentaho Community Edition again for a few months. So, I think, this exercise is not a waste of time.

If you want to try it, you can find the patched JPivot jar file here. The setup takes just one minute. Move your original JPivot library from <biserver_home>/tomcat/webapps/WEB-INF/lib in a different directory (just to be safe). Unzip the archive you just downloaded and copy the extracted jar file to the location specified before. Restart Pentaho BI Server and then... here we go!!