When I package my stand-alone-java-application, that compiles, renders and prints Jasper-Reports, in a fat jar with all dependencies, I get the error that the function TEXT – a function used in the report and defined in the net.sf.jasperreports-functions-library is not found.
The method TEXT(Integer, String) is undefined for the type [...]
value = IF(LEN(TEXT(((java.lang.Integer)parameter_X.getValue()),"#"))==2,"***",REPT("*",6-LEN(TEXT(((java.lang.Integer)parameter_X.getValue()),"#")))) //$JR_EXPR_ID=58$
Other functions from the same library work. When I run the application with gradle run, the function is found and the report can be printed. The library is on my classpath.
There are several similar questions on this site and Stackoverflow, but neither provided answers, that worked for me. In the following, I will explain what I tried:
In my build.gradle-File I defined dependencies to the following libraries:
implementation('net.sf.jasperreports:jasperreports:6.18.1')
implementation('net.sf.jasperreports:jasperreports-functions:6.18.1')
In my java-Files, I created a DesignFile and statically imported the functions into it. I tried two methods:
Method 1 as given in an answer in this thread: Unresolved symbols when compiling jasper report
/*…*/
designFile = JRXmlLoader.load(sourceFile.getAbsolutePath());
designFile.addImport("static net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.TextFunctions.*");
designFile.addImport("static net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.MathFunctions.*");
designFile.addImport("static net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.DateTimeFunctions.*");
designFile.addImport("static net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.LogicalFunctions.*");
JasperReport compiledReport = JasperCompileManager.getInstance(ctx).compile(designFile);
/*…*/
Method 2: importing each function on its own
public static String[] textFunctions(){
return new String[]{"BASE", "CHAR", "CLEAN", "CODE", "CONCATENATE", "DOUBLE_VALUE",
"EXACT", "FIND", /*"FIXED", */"FLOAT_VALUE", "INTEGER_VALUE", "LEFT", "LEN", "LONG_VALUE",
"LOWER", "LTRIM", "MID", "PROPER", "REPLACE", "REPT", "RIGHT", "RTRIM", "SEARCH", "SUBSTITUTE",
"T", /*"TEXT",*/ "TRIM", "UPPER"};
}}
/*…*/
designFile = JRXmlLoader.load(sourceFile.getAbsolutePath());
for (String textFunction : textFunctions()){
designFile.addImport("static net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.TextFunctions." + textFunction);
}/* similarly for logical functions, numeric functions and datetime functions*/
}
JasperReport compiledReport = JasperCompileManager.getInstance(ctx).compile(designFile);
/*…*/
As you can see, the function TEXT is commented out. That’s because the program fails at runtime when run with “gradle run”, when I comment it in:
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Errors were encountered when compiling report expressions class file:
1. The import net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.TextFunctions.TEXT cannot be resolved
import static net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.TextFunctions.TEXT;
The same thing is true with most datetime-functions, in fact, only TIME can be imported to the DesignObject without error at runtime
In addition to that, when I type net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.TextFunctions. in my IDE, the content-assist shows a list of available functions, yet TEXT is missing.
I suspected, that the function is simply missing in the library, but it is there. In the .gradle/cache/modules-2/files-2.1/… directory, there is the jar with the TextFunctions.java, that contains the function TEXT:
When building the FatJar with dependencies, I have a TextFunctions.class-File in it, that contains the TEXT-Function as well.
In my jar, there are two jasperreports_extension.properties on the root level:
with the smaller one (from the jasperreport-functions-dependency) containing the following lines:
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.registry.factory.functions=net.sf.jasperreports.functions.FunctionsRegistryFactory
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.functions.datetime=net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.DateTimeFunctions
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.functions.math=net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.MathFunctions, net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.LogicalFunctions
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.functions.text=net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.TextFunctions
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.functions.report=net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.ReportFunctions
Funnily enough, commenting out TEXT, running it locally with gradle run, it works without problems. But packaging it and running it with java -jar it fails to find this function. And statically importing this function leads to gradle run failing as well.
What is happening and how can I fix this? I want to distribute my FatJar on a server and run it, but this problems makes it impossible for me.
