Jasper Reports - Generating PDF 417 barcodes using Barcode4j

Question

We are currently using Jasper Reports to generate PDF 417 barcodes using Barcode4j.

We are using Barcode component for the same. If we set CodeExpression property to "CASE-SEPARATOR%$DEFKCNBSMEDPB%$CASEGPE0000115%$LOBDBAN%$CUSTG00012345" it throws following runtime exception.

Error filling print... net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression :      Source text : "CASE-SEPARATOR%$DEFKCNBSMEDPB%$CASEGPE0000115%$LOBDBAN%$CUSTG00012345" 
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression :      Source text : "CASE-SEPARATOR%$DEFKCNBSMEDPB%$CASEGPE0000115%$LOBDBAN%$CUSTG00012345" 

at net.sf.jasperreports.components.barcode4j.BarcodeEvaluator.evaluateExpression(BarcodeEvaluator.java:72)      at net.sf.jasperreports.components.barcode4j.BarcodeEvaluator.evaluateBaseBarcode(BarcodeEvaluator.java:53)      at net.sf.jasperreports.components.barcode4j.BarcodeEvaluator.evaluatePDF417(BarcodeEvaluator.java:145)      at net.sf.jasperreports.components.barcode4j.AbstractBarcodeEvaluator.visitPDF417(AbstractBarcodeEvaluator.java:424) 

If we remove $ character from above code expression value it works fine. Has anyone got idea how to generate PDF417 barcodes having $ characted in Message using Jasper reports/Barcode 4J. Thanks

Answer 1

We are able to generate barcode in png format by directly using Barcode4J API. It seems that there is a bug in jasper reports which does not allow $ character in barcode messgae while generating PDF 417 barcode.