Reading Excel file in Webdynpro

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Am developing a webdynpro application in which it will take an excel file as input and can update the fields in the file.

How can i approach it ?.

If possible Plz send the code .

Regards,

Ramganesh

[Former Member]

First You have to download the jxl.jar file. You can get this file from the Below site

JExcelApi v2.6.4 (1747kbytes)

It will be in Compressed Fromat So Unzip it to get the Contents

After Unzipping The File You will get a Folder (jexcelapi/jxl.jar)

Now in NWDS open web dynpro explorer, Right Click Your Project, a popup menu will appear and in that click Properties

You will get window displaying your Project Properties

On Left Side of the window You Will Find "Java Build Path"

Click That "Java Build Path" and you will get 4 Tabs Showing ( Source,Projects,Libraries,Order and Export)

Click Libraries Tab

You will find options many options buttons

In that click the Button "Add External Jars"

You will get Window in order to fecth the jxl.jar file from the location you had stored

After selecting the jxl.jar i will get displayed and click ok

Now Open Navigator

Open Your Project

You will find Lib folder

Copy the jxl.jar to that lib folder

Note : You cannot Read the Content from the excel file directly

First You Have to copy that file to the Server,

And from the Server you can get the file absolute path

With the absolute path you can read the contents of the Excel file

You have to save the Excel file as .xls Format and Not as xlsx format i will not accept that...

You have Upload the Excel file from the Server Using the File Upload UI Element

This Coding will extract 3 columns from the Xls File

Coding

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.InputStream;

import jxl.Cell;

import jxl.Sheet;

import jxl.Workbook;

import com.sap.fileupload.wdp.IPrivateFileUpload_View;

import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.services.sal.datatransport.api.IWDResource;

public void onActionUpload_File(com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.api.IWDCustomEvent wdEvent )

{

//@@begin onActionUpload_File(ServerEvent)

IPrivateFileUpload_View.IContextElement element1 = wdContext.currentContextElement();

IWDResource resource = element1.getFileResource();

element1.setFileName(resource.getResourceName());

element1.setFileExtension(resource.getResourceType().getFileExtension());

//@@end

}

public void onActionUpload_File_in_Server(com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.api.IWDCustomEvent wdEvent )

{

//@@begin onActionUpload_File_in_Server(ServerEvent)

InputStream text=null;

int temp=0;

try

{

File file = new File(wdContext.currentContextElement().getFileResource().getResourceName().toString());

FileOutputStream op = new FileOutputStream(file);

if(wdContext.currentContextElement().getFileResource()!=null)

{

text=wdContext.currentContextElement().getFileResource().read(false);

while((temp=text.read())!=-1)

{

op.write(temp);

}

}

op.flush();

op.close();

path = file.getAbsolutePath();

wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(path);

}

catch(Exception e)

{

e.printStackTrace();

}

//@@end

}

public void onActionUpload_Data_into_Table(com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.api.IWDCustomEvent wdEvent )

{

//@@begin onActionUpload_Data_into_Table(ServerEvent)

try

{

Workbook wb =Workbook.getWorkbook(new File(path));

Sheet sh = wb.getSheet(0);

//wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess("Columns = "+sh.getColumns());

//wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess("Rows = "+sh.getRows());

int columns = sh.getColumns();

int rows = sh.getRows();

int i=0;

for(int j=1;j<=rows;j++)

{

ele=wdContext.nodeTable_Data().createTable_DataElement();

Cell c1 = sh.getCell(i,j);

ele.setTab_Name(c1.getContents());

Cell c2 = sh.getCell(i+1,j);

ele.setTab_Degree(c2.getContents());

Cell c3 = sh.getCell(i+2,j);

ele.setTab_Percentage(c3.getContents());

wdContext.nodeTable_Data().addElement(ele);

}

}

catch(Exception ex)

{

wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(ex.toString());

}

//@@end

}

/*

• The following code section can be used for any Java code that is

• not to be visible to other controllers/views or that contains constructs

• currently not supported directly by Web Dynpro (such as inner classes or

• member variables etc.). </p>

*

• Note: The content of this section is in no way managed/controlled

• by the Web Dynpro Designtime or the Web Dynpro Runtime.

*/

//@@begin others

String path;

IPrivateFileUpload_View.ITable_DataElement ele;

//@@end

Note:

1)make sure that the cardinality of the node i.e. upload node is 1:1

2) Also the above code is valid if u have file upload ui element where u upload file

[Former Member]

Copy pasting someone else's answer is not very polite...

[Former Member]

Check this

/people/sap.user72/blog/2006/05/04/enhancing-tables-in-webdynpro-java-150-custom-built-table-utilities

Regards, Anilkumar