JasperReports: CONCATENATE function not found

Question

I\'m developing some reports with Jaspersoft Studio.
I have a web app that should accept REST queries, and turn them into compiled reports.
So I have some

Answer 1

You should also add jasperreports-functions-5.2.0.jar to your classpath.

This library contains net.sf.jasperreports.functions.standard.TextFunctions class with CONCATENATE function.

You can find this artifact at http://jaspersoft.artifactoryonline.com/jaspersoft/jr-ce-releases Maven repository.

The snippet from my test pom.xml:

    
        jr-ce-releases
        http://jaspersoft.artifactoryonline.com/jaspersoft/jr-ce-releases
    



    
        net.sf.jasperreports
        jasperreports
        5.2.0
    

    
        org.codehaus.groovy
        groovy-all
        2.0.1
    
    
        net.sf.jasperreports
        jasperreports-functions
        5.2.0
    
    
        joda-time
        joda-time
        2.1
    

The net.sf.jasperreports.jasperreports-functions:5.2.0 artifact depends on joda-time.joda-time:2.1 artifact - you should also add to classpath the joda-time-2.1.jar

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Notes:

You can find more information in Custom Functions in Report Expressions article