JAVA

Deal with empty or blank cell in excel file using apache poi

package com.roytuts.java.apache.poi.excel.deal.empty.blank.cell;

public class Info {

	private String name;
	private String mobile;
	private String phone;
	private String permAddress;
	private String commAddress;

	//getters and setters

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Info [name=" + name + ", mobile=" + mobile + ", phone=" + phone + ", permAddress=" + permAddress
				+ ", commAddress=" + commAddress + "]";
	}

}

Deal with empty or blank cell in excel file using apache poi

package com.roytuts.java.apache.poi.excel.deal.empty.blank.cell;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;
import org.apache.poi.ss.util.NumberToTextConverter;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;

public final class ExcelUtil {

	private ExcelUtil() {
	}

	public static List<Info> extractInfo(final String file) {
		List<Info> infoList = new ArrayList<Info>();
		Workbook wb = null;

		try {
			wb = new XSSFWorkbook(new FileInputStream(new File(file)));
			Sheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);

			boolean skipHeader = true;

			for (Row row : sheet) {
				if (skipHeader) {
					skipHeader = false;
					continue;
				}

				List<Cell> cells = new ArrayList<Cell>();

				int lastColumn = Math.max(row.getLastCellNum(), 5);// because my
																	// excel
																	// sheet has
																	// max 5
																	// columns,
																	// in case
																	// last
																	// column is
																	// empty
																	// then
																	// row.getLastCellNum()
																	// will
																	// return 4
				for (int cn = 0; cn < lastColumn; cn++) {
					Cell c = row.getCell(cn, Row.MissingCellPolicy.RETURN_BLANK_AS_NULL);
					cells.add(c);
				}

				Info info = extractInfoFromCell(cells);
				infoList.add(info);
			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			if (wb != null) {
				try {
					wb.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		}

		return infoList;
	}

	private static Info extractInfoFromCell(List<Cell> cells) {
		Info info = new Info();

		Cell nameCell = cells.get(0);
		if (nameCell != null) {
			info.setName(nameCell.getStringCellValue());
		}

		Cell mobileCell = cells.get(1);
		if (mobileCell != null) {
			switch (mobileCell.getCellType()) {
			case NUMERIC:
				info.setMobile(NumberToTextConverter.toText(mobileCell.getNumericCellValue()));
				break;
			case BLANK:
				break;
			default:
				break;
			}
		}

		Cell phoneCell = cells.get(2);
		if (phoneCell != null) {
			switch (phoneCell.getCellType()) {
			case NUMERIC:
				info.setPhone(NumberToTextConverter.toText(phoneCell.getNumericCellValue()));
				break;
			case BLANK:
				break;
			default:
				break;
			}
		}

		Cell permAddressCell = cells.get(3);
		if (permAddressCell != null) {
			info.setPermAddress(permAddressCell.getStringCellValue());
		}

		Cell commAddressCell = cells.get(4);
		if (commAddressCell != null) {
			info.setCommAddress(commAddressCell.getStringCellValue());
		}

		return info;
	}

}

Deal with empty or blank cell in excel file using apache poi

//If you are using apache dependency version 3.12 then you need to handle different way. The switch case statement should be replaced in the following way for numeric cell types.

switch (mobileCell.getCellType()) {
case NUMERIC:
	info.setMobile(NumberToTextConverter.toText(mobileCell.getNumericCellValue()));
	break;
case BLANK:
	break;
default:
	break;
}

Deal with empty or blank cell in excel file using apache poi

mobileCell.setCellType(Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING);
info.setMobile(mobileCell.getStringCellValue());

Deal with empty or blank cell in excel file using apache poi

package com.roytuts.java.apache.poi.excel.deal.empty.blank.cell;

import java.util.List;

public class BlankCellHandlerApp {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		List<Info> infoList = ExcelUtil.extractInfo("info.xlsx");

		for (Info info : infoList) {
			System.out.println(info);
		}
	}

}