Getting error create null as blank is deprecated in selenium webdriver - apache-poi

I am working on excel reading automation in selenium webdriver. There are some blank cell in excel.
Actually I have create an excel file with some data like username and password and have given some column (username) values as blank. And when I have run the code it show the exception NullPointerExceptions. So I have Create the object of MissingCellPolicy class and pass in the object in cellcount as a second argument with J. But its show the warning message on below line code:
MissingCellPolicy MCP = Row.CREATE_NULL_AS_BLANK;`
.
The field Row.CREATE_NULL_AS_BLANK is deprecated.
Following code is displayed blank for only First Line columns. For example
Coli1 Column2
Manoj Test
Kumar QA
Test
Rahul
Vinit Sumit
Umesh Naresh
Its displayed blank only for First column under the Test blank should be displayed under the QA also.Please help where i have did mistake.
public class ExcelRead {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
File fObj = new File("C:\\Selenium\\WebDriverWorkspace\\APERIOSuite\\src\\testData\\Login.xlsx");
FileInputStream fis= new FileInputStream(fObj);
XSSFWorkbook wb= new XSSFWorkbook(fis);
XSSFSheet sheetObj= wb.getSheetAt(0);
int rcount = sheetObj.getLastRowNum();
MissingCellPolicy MCP=Row.CREATE_NULL_AS_BLANK;
for(int i=0;i<=rcount;i++){
Row rowObj=sheetObj.getRow(i);
int cellcnt=rowObj.getLastCellNum();
for(int j=0; j<=cellcnt-1;j++){
Cell cellObj=rowObj.getCell(j,MCP);
String cellvalue =cellObj.getStringCellValue();
System.out.println(cellvalue);

I assume you are talking about the POI library 3.15 from Apache. The new way looks like this:
XSSFWorkbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook(fis);
wb.setMissingCellPolicy(MissingCellPolicy.CREATE_NULL_AS_BLANK);
Edited to fit in your example.

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Excel handling in jmeter to add multiple dynamic rows

I need to create an excel file for upload scenario in jmeter. The excel has 3 columns and number of rows is a dynamic value coming from parameter file.
The row values cannot have same data for different excel. So I am using random string to create data. By hard coding number of rows I am able to create file with below code using apache poi but facing issues to handle dynamic number of rows. Can somebody please provide solution?
Below is the code which is working fine for creating 5 rows.
def path = FileServer.getFileServer().getBaseDir;
def separator = File.separator;
def sourceFileName = "CreateDynamicExcel";
HSSFWorkbook workbook = new HSSFWorkbook();
HSSFSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("Billing");
Object[] dataTypes = [
["Column1Header","Column2Header","Column3Header"],
["${__RandomString(10,abcdefghij,)}","${__Random(100000000,199999999,)}","${__RandomString(10,abcdefghijklmnopqrst,)}"],
["${__RandomString(10,abcdefghij,)}","${__Random(100000000,199999999,)}","${__RandomString(10,abcdefghijklmnopqrst,)}"],
["${__RandomString(10,abcdefghij,)}","${__Random(100000000,199999999,)}","${__RandomString(10,abcdefghijklmnopqrst,)}"],
["${__RandomString(10,abcdefghij,)}","${__Random(100000000,199999999,)}","${__RandomString(10,abcdefghijklmnopqrst,)}"]];
int rowNum = 0;
for (Object[] datatype:datatypes)
HSSFRow = sheet.createRow(rowNum++);
int colNum = 0;
for(Object filed:datatype){
HSSFCell cell = row.createCell(colNumn+=);
if(filed.instanceof(String){
cell.setCellValue((String) filed);
}
if(filed.instanceof(Integer){
cell.setCellValue((Integer) filed);
}
}
try{
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File(path+separator+sourceFileName+".xls"));
workbook.write(out);
out.close();
}
catch(FileNotFoundException e){
e.printStacktrace();
}
I don't think you should be inlining JMeter Functions or Variables in Groovy scripts because:
It conflicts with Groovy GString Template Engine syntax
Only first occurrence will be cached and used for subsequent iterations
So you can use the following expressions instead:
org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphanumeric(10)
org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomUtils.nextInt(100000000, 199999999)
etc.
In case of any problems - take a look at jmeter.log file, in case of any issues you should find the root cause or at least a clue there

Excel Sheet names in Apache POI (without "user" model) [duplicate]

I have the following code that I use to get the sheet names of an excel file(.xlsx)
XSSFWorkbook workBookXlsx = new XSSFWorkbook(new FileInputStream(pathToFile));
ArrayList<String> sheetNames = new ArrayList<>();
int numberOfSheets = workBookXlsx.getNumberOfSheets();
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfSheets; i++) {
sheetNames.add(workBookXlsx.getSheetAt(i).getSheetName());
}
workBookXlsx = null;
The issue I have with the above code is that it takes a lot of memory(~700MB) & a long time(5-6s) to create the XSSFWorkbook for a file of size 9MB. Even setting the workBookXlsx to null doesn't release the memory taken by the javaw(I know gc may or maynot be called & JVM wont release memory just because I have set a variable to null)
I did go through the documentation of Workbook, XSSFWorkbook & from what I understood, there is no method that will help me get the sheet names with low memory imprint.
The one solution I have found is to manually unzip the .xlsx file and read the contents of the .\xl\woorkbook.xml to get the sheet names and the r:id
Is there an API for getting the sheet names in an .xlsx file without large memory imprint?
To show what #Gagravarr probably meant with his comment:
The XSSFReader contains a method XSSFReader.getSheetsData which "Returns an Iterator which will let you get at all the different Sheets in turn. Each sheet's InputStream is only opened when fetched from the Iterator. It's up to you to close the InputStreams when done with each one.". But as often this is not the whole truth. In truth it returns a XSSFReader.SheetIterator which has a method XSSFReader.SheetIterator.getSheetName to get the sheet names.
Example:
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.eventusermodel.XSSFReader;
import java.util.Iterator;
public class ExcelXSSFGetSheetNamesXSSFReader {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
OPCPackage pkg = OPCPackage.open(new FileInputStream("Example.xlsx"));
XSSFReader r = new XSSFReader( pkg );
Iterator<InputStream> sheets = r.getSheetsData();
if (sheets instanceof XSSFReader.SheetIterator) {
XSSFReader.SheetIterator sheetiterator = (XSSFReader.SheetIterator)sheets;
while (sheetiterator.hasNext()) {
InputStream dummy = sheetiterator.next();
System.out.println(sheetiterator.getSheetName());
dummy.close();
}
}
pkg.close();
}
}
Conclusion: Currently you cannot work with apache poi only by trusting the API documentation. Instead you must always have a look at the source code.

dropdown Validation not working if it exceeds 50 rows in the Export To Excel

I am generating Excel File(.xlsx) using apache poi jar (poi-ooxml-3.9.jar), I added dropdown validation for 10 columns in my excel file, If I generate the Excel File with 50 rows, drop down validation is working. If it exceeds more than 50 rows, drop down validation is not coming in the Excel File, When I open the excel File I get the message as "We found a problem with some content in fileName.xlsx. Do you want us to try to recover as much as we can ? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes ". when click on Yes, all the dropdown validation it is removing. Kindly need solution to fix this issue.
Do not create DataValidationConstraint for each single cell but only for each varying list you need. Then create DataValidation using those DataValidationConstraint for continuous CellRangeAddressList which are as big as possible and also are not all single cells.
Example creates ten different list validations for column 1 to 10 in rows 1 to 10000.
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.ss.util.CellRangeAddressList;
class DataValidationList {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Workbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(); // or new HSSFWorkbook
Sheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("Data Validation");
DataValidationHelper dvHelper = sheet.getDataValidationHelper();
for (int col = 0; col < 10; col++) {
DataValidationConstraint dvConstraint = dvHelper.createExplicitListConstraint(
new String[]{"Col "+(col+1)+" one","Col "+(col+1)+" two","Col "+(col+1)+" three"});
CellRangeAddressList addressList = new CellRangeAddressList(0, 9999, 0, col);
DataValidation validation = dvHelper.createValidation(
dvConstraint, addressList);
if(validation instanceof XSSFDataValidation) {
validation.setSuppressDropDownArrow(true);
validation.setShowErrorBox(true);
}
else {
validation.setSuppressDropDownArrow(false);
}
sheet.addValidationData(validation);
}
String filename;
if(workbook instanceof XSSFWorkbook) {
filename = "DataValidationList.xlsx";
} else {
filename = "DataValidationList.xls";
}
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(filename);
workbook.write(out);
out.close();
workbook.close();
}
}

Input/Export data through MS Excel into OATS Scripts

When trying to get the Input the data from the Excel Sheet while working with OATS tool, it always gets into the catch block of the function. The below is the script written. Please help us resolve this issue.
public String getInputfromExcel(int argColumnNumber,int argRowNumber)throws Exception
{
String inputExcelName = dataPath+".xlsx";
String cellContent = "12";
try
{
Workbook workbook = Workbook.getWorkbook(new File(inputExcelName));
Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheet(0);
Cell a1 = sheet.getCell(argColumnNumber, argRowNumber);
cellContent = (a1.getContents()).toString();
System.out.println(cellContent.toString());
workbook.close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
addReport("Getting Input From Excel", "Fail","Exception while reading value from excel sheet");
}
return cellContent;
}
Axel has brought up the point. On a further note, if I remember correctly, the function sheet.getCell(arg1, arg2) has first argument as rowNumber and 2nd as columnNumber (both the values are 0 based index).
Its old quetion....but just posting answer it might be helpful for someone needy.
In Oracle Application Testing Suite. NO NEED of external JARs to read/write data.
You can enable DataTable module in the tool
Complete explanation given here, http://www.testinghive.com/how-to-read-write-excel-in-oats/
//Define Sheet name to be read, and provide comma seperated to read multiple sheets
String sheetName = "Sheet1";
//Mention excel sheet path
String strFile= "C:\\Demo\\test.xls";
//Defined array list to add Sheets to read
List sheetList = new ArrayList();
sheetList.add(sheetName);
// Iports Sheet1
datatable.importSheets(strFile, sheetList, true, true);
//get rowcount
info("Total rows :"+datatable.getRowCount());
int rowcount=datatable.getRowCount();
//Loop to read all rows
for (int i=0;i<rowcount;i++)
{
//Set current row fromw here you need to start reading, in this case start from first row
datatable.setCurrentRow(sheetName, i);
String strCompany=(String) datatable.getValue(sheetName,i,"Company");
String strEmpFName=(String) datatable.getValue(sheetName,i,"FirstName");
String strEmpLName=(String) datatable.getValue(sheetName,i,"LastName");
String strEmpID=(String) datatable.getValue(sheetName,i,"EmpID");
String strLocation=(String) datatable.getValue(sheetName,i,"Location");
//prints first name and last name
System.out.println("First Name : "+strEmpFName+", Last Name : "+strEmpLName);
//Sets ACTIVE column in excel sheet to Y
String strActive="Y";
datatable.setValue(sheetName, i, datatable.getColumn(sheetName, datatable.getColumnIndex("Active")), strActive);
}
//Updates sheet with updated values ie ACTIVE column sets to Y
datatable.exportToExcel("C:\\Demo\\test1.xlsx");

apache poi how to disable external reference or external links?

I've been looking on the web for 30 minutes now and can't find any explanation about that. Here is my problem :
I wrote an application with poi to parse some data from 200 excel files or so and put some of it into a new file. I do some cell evaluation with FormulaEvaluator to know the content of the cells before choosing to keep them or not.
Now, when i test it on a test file with only values in the cells, the program works perfectly but when i use it on my pile of files I get this error :
"could not resolve external workbook name"
Is there any way to ignore external workbook references or set up the environment so that it wont evaluate formula with external references?
Because the ones I need don't contain references...
Thank you
Can you not just catch the error, and skip over that cell?
You're getting the error because you've asked POI to evaluate a the formula in a cell, and that formula refers to a different file. However, you've not told POI where to find the file that's referenced, so it objects.
If you don't care about cells with external references, just catch the exception and move on to the next cell.
If you do care, you'll need to tell POI where to find your files. You do this with the setupEnvironment(String[],Evaluator[]) method - pass it an array of workbook names, and a matching array of evaluators for those workbooks.
In order for POI to be able to evaluate external references, it needs access to the workbooks in question. As these don't necessarily have the same names on your system as in the workbook, you need to give POI a map of external references to open workbooks, through the setupReferencedWorkbooks(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,FormulaEvaluator> workbooks) method.
I have done please see below code that is working fine at my side
public static void writeWithExternalReference(String cellContent, boolean isRowUpdate, boolean isFormula)
{
try
{
File yourFile = new File("E:\\Book1.xlsx");
yourFile.createNewFile();
FileInputStream myxls = null;
myxls = new FileInputStream(yourFile);
XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(myxls);
FormulaEvaluator mainWorkbookEvaluator = workbook.getCreationHelper().createFormulaEvaluator();
XSSFWorkbook workbook1 = new XSSFWorkbook(new File("E:\\elk\\lookup.xlsx"));
// Track the workbook references
Map<String,FormulaEvaluator> workbooks = new HashMap<String, FormulaEvaluator>();
workbooks.put("Book1.xlsx", mainWorkbookEvaluator);
workbooks.put("elk/lookup.xlsx", workbook1.getCreationHelper().createFormulaEvaluator());
workbook2.getCreationHelper().createFormulaEvaluator());
// Attach them
mainWorkbookEvaluator.setupReferencedWorkbooks(workbooks);
XSSFSheet worksheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);
XSSFRow row = null;
if (isRowUpdate) {
int lastRow = worksheet.getLastRowNum();
row = worksheet.createRow(++lastRow);
}
else {
row = worksheet.getRow(worksheet.getLastRowNum());
}
if (!isFormula) {
Cell cell = row.createCell(row.getLastCellNum()==-1 ? 0 : row.getLastCellNum());
cell.setCellValue(Double.parseDouble(cellContent));
} else {
XSSFCell cell = row.createCell(row.getLastCellNum()==-1 ? 0 : row.getLastCellNum());
System.out.println(cellContent);
cell.setCellFormula(cellContent);
mainWorkbookEvaluator.evaluateInCell(cell);
cell.setCellFormula(cellContent);
// mainWorkbookEvaluator.evaluateInCell(cell);
//System.out.println(cell.getCellFormula() + " = "+cell.getStringCellValue());
}
workbook1.close();
myxls.close();
FileOutputStream output_file =new FileOutputStream(yourFile,false);
//write changes
workbook.write(output_file);
output_file.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

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