Jasper Reports - Generating PDF 417 barcodes using Barcode4j

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 expr开发者_如何学Pythonession :      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

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.