Hi, I have a parsing error when trying to read an excel file Environment : jdk 1.4.2 under Windows XP SP1, error identical under poi 2.0, 2.5.1 and 3.0-alpha2-20060616, parsing an a file created with excel 2002 containing some french characters :
HSSFWorkbook hssfWorkbook = new HSSFWorkbook(new POIFSFileSystem(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("MyFile.xls")))); Code worked a few days ago but failed since some changes in the excel file java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor9.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecord(RecordFactory.java:213) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecords(RecordFactory.java:149) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:183) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:152) at com.bnpparibas.grp.framework.testing.testpack.TestPackReader.<init>(TestPackReader.java:114) at com.bnpparibas.grp.framework.testing.testpack.TestPackReaderTest.testTestPack(TestPackReaderTest.java:13) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154) at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127) at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106) at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124) at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109) at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118) at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208) at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203) at junit.textui.TestRunner.doRun(TestRunner.java:116) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.IdeaTestRunner.doRun(IdeaTestRunner.java:69) at junit.textui.TestRunner.doRun(TestRunner.java:109) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:24) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:118) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:40) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:90) Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 12007 at java.lang.String.checkBounds(String.java:287) at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:319) at org.apache.poi.util.StringUtil.getFromCompressedUnicode(StringUtil.java:163) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.StringRecord.fillFields(StringRecord.java:89) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.Record.<init>(Record.java:55) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.StringRecord.<init>(StringRecord.java:51) ... 32 more org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFormatException: Unable to construct record instance, the following exception occured: null at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecord(RecordFactory.java:226) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecords(RecordFactory.java:149) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:183) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:152) at com.bnpparibas.grp.framework.testing.testpack.TestPackReader.<init>(TestPackReader.java:114) at com.bnpparibas.grp.framework.testing.testpack.TestPackReaderTest.testTestPack(TestPackReaderTest.java:13) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:40) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:90) Error is at "return new String(string, offset, len, "ISO-8859-1");" in a getFromCompressedUnicode method so I suspect an encoding issue but can't spot it for the moment Julien Kirch This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. 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