Implement Enhanced Report Template System with YAML Parsing, Analytics Aggregation, and PDF Generation

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Overview

This PR implements a comprehensive enhanced report template system that generates HTML and PDF reports from YAML-based templates with automatic analytics data collection and validation. The system addresses the need for a flexible, maintainable reporting infrastructure that can dynamically generate reports based on declarative template specifications.

Problem Statement

The repository needed a better reporting template system that:

• Supports both HTML and PDF-compatible templates
• Automatically extracts and translates analytics requirements from templates
• Validates that required data is available before generation
• Provides comprehensive error handling and validation

Solution

Implemented a modular system with four core components:

1. YAML Template Parser (yaml_template_parser.py)

Parses and validates YAML report templates with comprehensive schema validation:

parser = YAMLTemplateParser()
template_data, validation = parser.parse_and_validate(Path("template.yaml"))

if validation.is_valid:
    requirements = parser.extract_analytics_requirements(template_data)

Features:

• Validates required template keys and structure
• Supports 40+ analytics tags across 8 categories
• Validates section types, parameters, and data quality thresholds
• Provides detailed error messages and warnings
• Extracts analytics requirements for automated data collection

2. Analytics Data Aggregator (analytics_data_aggregator.py)

Automatically collects required analytics data based on template specifications:

aggregator = AnalyticsDataAggregator()
collected_data = aggregator.collect_required_analytics(
    analysis_results,
    required_tags={'statistics.basic', 'compliance.overall'},
    required_parameters={'temperature', 'co2'}
)

Supported Analytics Categories:

• Statistics (basic, trends, distribution)
• Compliance (overall, temporal, spatial, threshold)
• Temporal patterns (hourly, daily, seasonal)
• Spatial analysis (room/level/building, comparisons, rankings)
• Recommendations (operational, HVAC, ventilation)
• Data quality (completeness, accuracy)
• Performance (scoring, ranking)
• Weather correlations (correlation, impact)

3. Enhanced Report Service (enhanced_report_service.py)

Unified orchestrator for the complete workflow:

service = EnhancedReportService()

result = service.generate_report(
    template_name="building_detailed",
    analysis_results=building_data,
    output_format='both'  # HTML + PDF
)

print(f"HTML: {result['html_report']['path']}")
print(f"PDF: {result['pdf_report']['output_path']}")

Workflow:

1. Parse and validate YAML template
2. Extract analytics requirements
3. Collect required analytics data
4. Validate data availability (with coverage metrics)
5. Generate HTML report
6. Convert to PDF if requested

Additional Features:

• Template listing and validation
• Batch report generation
• Comprehensive error handling
• Detailed logging and status tracking

4. PDF Generator Enhancements (PDFGenerator.py)

Enhanced HTML-to-PDF conversion with professional formatting:

• Page numbering in footers
• Custom headers with report titles
• Print-optimized CSS with page breaks
• Chart embedding support
• Page counting (with PyPDF2 integration)
• Weasyprint backend with reportlab fallback

YAML Template Example

Templates can declaratively specify their analytics requirements:

template_id: building_detailed
name: Building Detailed Report
description: Comprehensive building analysis

analytics_requirements:
  analytics_tags:
    - statistics.basic
    - compliance.overall
    - temporal.hourly
    - spatial.room_level
  required_parameters:
    - temperature
    - co2
  required_level: room
  min_data_quality: 0.6

report:
  title: "Building Environmental Quality Report"
  format: html
  scope: building

sections:
  - section_id: summary
    type: summary
    title: "Building Summary"
    analytics_requirements:
      analytics_tags:
        - statistics.basic
        - compliance.overall
  
  - section_id: charts
    type: charts
    title: "Environmental Conditions"
    charts:
      - id: temperature_heatmap
        title: "Temperature Patterns"
        analytics_requirements:
          analytics_tags:
            - temporal.hourly
          required_parameters:
            - temperature

Testing

Comprehensive test suite with 16 tests covering all components:

• YAMLTemplateParser: 10 tests (parsing, validation, analytics extraction)
• AnalyticsDataAggregator: 5 tests (data collection, validation)
• Integration: 1 test (complete workflow)

16 passed in 0.05s ✅
CodeQL: 0 security vulnerabilities ✅

Documentation

Added comprehensive documentation totaling 34KB:

• REPORTING_SYSTEM.md (14KB) - Complete guide with architecture, YAML schema, analytics tags reference, section types, usage examples, API reference, and best practices
• REPORTING_QUICK_REFERENCE.md (6KB) - Quick start guide with cheat sheets and common tasks
• IMPLEMENTATION_SUMMARY.md (11KB) - Technical achievement summary
• enhanced_reporting_examples.py (10KB) - 6 practical examples

Benefits

1. Declarative Templates: Define reports in YAML without code changes
2. Automatic Data Collection: System extracts and validates required analytics
3. Early Validation: Catches issues before generation
4. Flexible Configuration: Easy to create custom templates
5. High Quality Output: Professional HTML and PDF reports
6. Well Tested: 16 tests ensure reliability
7. Extensible: Easy to add new analytics tags and section types
8. Production Ready: Comprehensive error handling and logging

Compatibility

• Works seamlessly with existing templates (building_detailed.yaml, portfolio_summary.yaml, standard_building.yaml)
• Backward compatible with current HTMLReportRenderer
• Supports Python 3.9+
• No breaking changes to existing functionality

Files Changed

Added (7 files, ~2,600 lines):

• src/core/reporting/yaml_template_parser.py - YAML parser with validation
• src/core/reporting/analytics_data_aggregator.py - Analytics data collector
• src/core/reporting/enhanced_report_service.py - Unified service orchestrator
• tests/test_enhanced_reporting.py - Comprehensive test suite
• docs/REPORTING_SYSTEM.md - Complete documentation
• docs/REPORTING_QUICK_REFERENCE.md - Quick reference guide
• examples/enhanced_reporting_examples.py - Practical examples

Modified (1 file):

• src/core/reporting/PDFGenerator.py - Enhanced with page numbers and headers

Security

CodeQL analysis: 0 alerts ✅

• Safe YAML loading (yaml.safe_load)
• Proper input validation
• No code injection risks
• Follows Python best practices

Original prompt

The objective is to create a better reporting template system in the 'bruadam/hvx' repository. The new system should support both HTML and PDF-compatible templates. Additionally, ensure that the data and analytics specified in a template YAML file are translated and correctly generated into a PDF. Here's what needs to be done:\n\n1. Develop a mechanism to parse and process template YAML files to extract the required data and analytics.\n2. Implement the functionality to dynamically generate HTML templates based on the YAML data.\n3. Integrate a PDF generation library or tool to convert the HTML templates into PDF format.\n4. Ensure compatibility and consistency between the HTML and PDF outputs.\n5. Write tests to validate the accuracy and reliability of the YAML-to-PDF generation process.\n6. Document the usage of the new reporting template system, including examples of YAML templates and their expected outputs.

This pull request was created as a result of the following prompt from Copilot chat.

The objective is to create a better reporting template system in the 'bruadam/hvx' repository. The new system should support both HTML and PDF-compatible templates. Additionally, ensure that the data and analytics specified in a template YAML file are translated and correctly generated into a PDF. Here's what needs to be done:\n\n1. Develop a mechanism to parse and process template YAML files to extract the required data and analytics.\n2. Implement the functionality to dynamically generate HTML templates based on the YAML data.\n3. Integrate a PDF generation library or tool to convert the HTML templates into PDF format.\n4. Ensure compatibility and consistency between the HTML and PDF outputs.\n5. Write tests to validate the accuracy and reliability of the YAML-to-PDF generation process.\n6. Document the usage of the new reporting template system, including examples of YAML templates and their expected outputs.

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