XSSFWorkbook poi: adding image IOUtils toByteArray unfined error - apache-poi

Question

To insert image to excel using POI:XSSF
I am using maven poi dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
<version>3.8</version>
</dependency>
AND code as :
InputStream my_banner_image = new FileInputStream("input.png");
byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(my_banner_image);
int my_picture_id = wb.addPicture(bytes, Workbook.PICTURE_TYPE_PNG);
I am getting these errors:
1) The method toByteArray(InputStream) is undefined for the type IOUtils
2) PICTURE_TYPE_PNG cannot be resolved or is not a field
Any help would be appriciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Promoting a comment to an answer:
The method you want to use is very much present in Apache POI 3.11, and you can see full details about it in the POI Javadocs.
As detailed on the POI Components page, defining a Maven dependency on poi-ooxml will pull in the main poi component jar, which is where the IOUtils class lives, so that bit is fine
What you have in this case (based on comments) is a second, older copy of POI on your classpath. You need to remove this older POI jar (or POI jars), in common with most Java projects Apache POI will only work properly if all of the POI jars are from the same version, and no old ones are present.
Because it's a fairly common problem - lots of frameworks ship old copies of POI for example - there's a POI FAQ entry on this very thing. If you can't find the old jar by hand, you can use the code given there to work out where the old jar is to remove it.
Also, one other thing to bear in mind - many many projects provide a class called IOUtils - make sure the one you have imported into your code is org.apache.poi.util.IOUtils and not something else!