how to change pie chart colors of JFreeChart?

Question

how to customize the colors of JFreeChart graphic. lets see my java code :

private StreamedContent chartImage ;

public void init(){
    JFreeChart jfreechart = ChartFactory.createPieChart("title", createDataset(), true, true, false);
    File chartFile = new File("dynamichart");
    ChartUtilities.saveChartAsPNG(chartFile, jfreechart, 375, 300);
    chartImage = new DefaultStreamedContent(new FileInputStream( chartFile), "image/png");
}

public PieDataset createDataset() {
    DefaultPieDataset dataset = new DefaultPieDataset();
          dataset.setValue("J-2", 10);
          dataset.setValue("J-1", 15);
          dataset.setValue("J", 50);
          dataset.setValue("J+1", 20);
          dataset.setValue("J+2", 15);
    return dataset;
}

html page :

<p:graphicImage id="MyImage" value="#{beanCreateImage.chartImage}" />

Answer 1

You can change the color of single pieces like this:

JFreeChart chart = ChartFactory.createPieChart("title", createDataset(), true, true, false);
PiePlot plot = (PiePlot) chart.getPlot();
plot.setSectionPaint("J+1", Color.black);
plot.setSectionPaint("J-1", new Color(120, 0, 120));
// or do this, if you are using an older version of JFreeChart:
//plot.setSectionPaint(1, Color.black);
//plot.setSectionPaint(3, new Color(120, 0, 120));

So with your code, all the pies are colored automatically, after my code changes, the J-1 and J+1 have a fixed color, the rest gets automatically colored.

Answer 2

To set the colous for a chart you can implement the DrawingSupplier inferface in this case I've used DefaultDrawingSupplier:

public class ChartDrawingSupplier extends DefaultDrawingSupplier  {

    public Paint[] paintSequence;
    public int paintIndex;
    public int fillPaintIndex;

    {
        paintSequence =  new Paint[] {
                new Color(227, 26, 28),
                new Color(000,102, 204),
                new Color(102,051,153),
                new Color(102,51,0),
                new Color(156,136,48),
                new Color(153,204,102),
                new Color(153,51,51),
                new Color(102,51,0),
                new Color(204,153,51),
                new Color(0,51,0),
        };
    }

    @Override
    public Paint getNextPaint() {
        Paint result
        = paintSequence[paintIndex % paintSequence.length];
        paintIndex++;
        return result;
    }


    @Override
    public Paint getNextFillPaint() {
        Paint result
        = paintSequence[fillPaintIndex % paintSequence.length];
        fillPaintIndex++;
        return result;
    }   
}

Then include this code in your `init()' method

JFreeChart jfreechart = ChartFactory.createPieChart("title", createDataset(), true, true, false);
Plot plot = jfreechart.getPlot();
plot.setDrawingSupplier(new ChartDrawingSupplier());
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