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Posted to user@poi.apache.org by John Francis <jf...@his.co.uk> on 2011/02/10 19:13:52 UTC
Problem with OpenOffice General/GENERAL format
I have a spreadsheet created and edited with a mix or Excel 2007 and
OpenOffice 3.2.1 build 9502
When I read numbers with org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.DataFormatter (from
poi-src-3.7-20101029.zip) which are shown as formatted with Format code
General I get them returned in decimal format, even when they are shown
as Integers. i.e. the old 12 being passed back as 12.0. I tracked the
problem down to what is returned as the
cell.getCellStyle().getDataFormatString() in the private Format
getFormat(Cell cell) of the DataFormatter class. This returns "GENERAL"
not "General" for some reason (OpenOffice seems to have changed it) so
the part of the code in private Format getFormat(double cellValue, int
formatIndex, String formatStr) which handles the General style nicely;
if ("General".equals(formatStr) || "@".equals(formatStr)) {
if (DataFormatter.isWholeNumber(cellValue)) {
return generalWholeNumFormat;
}
return generalDecimalNumFormat;
}
is never called.
I posted this in the hope it might help others.
If anyone knows about this problem and is planning a POI fix for it I
would also be interested but I can work round for now.
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RE: Problem with OpenOffice General/GENERAL format
Posted by John Francis <jf...@his.co.uk>.
I have created bug 50756 in ASF bugzilla with the offending file....
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Burch [mailto:nick.burch@alfresco.com]
Sent: 10 February 2011 18:24
To: POI Users List
Subject: Re: Problem with OpenOffice General/GENERAL format
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, John Francis wrote:
> When I read numbers with org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.DataFormatter (from
> poi-src-3.7-20101029.zip) which are shown as formatted with Format code
> General I get them returned in decimal format, even when they are shown
> as Integers. i.e. the old 12 being passed back as 12.0. I tracked the
> problem down to what is returned as the
> cell.getCellStyle().getDataFormatString() in the private Format
> getFormat(Cell cell) of the DataFormatter class. This returns "GENERAL"
> not "General" for some reason (OpenOffice seems to have changed it)
Any chance you could create a new bug in bugzilla, and upload one of these
problematic files? We'll want to use a file like that in any future bugfix
Nick
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Re: Problem with OpenOffice General/GENERAL format
Posted by Nick Burch <ni...@alfresco.com>.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, John Francis wrote:
> When I read numbers with org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.DataFormatter (from
> poi-src-3.7-20101029.zip) which are shown as formatted with Format code
> General I get them returned in decimal format, even when they are shown
> as Integers. i.e. the old 12 being passed back as 12.0. I tracked the
> problem down to what is returned as the
> cell.getCellStyle().getDataFormatString() in the private Format
> getFormat(Cell cell) of the DataFormatter class. This returns "GENERAL"
> not "General" for some reason (OpenOffice seems to have changed it)
Any chance you could create a new bug in bugzilla, and upload one of these
problematic files? We'll want to use a file like that in any future bugfix
Nick
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