Hi, I think you missed to attach the actual changed classes that you refer to, additionally a diff/patch file would be easier to look at as it will show what are the actual changes that you propose...
Dominik. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Mohamed Ennahdi El Idrissi wrote: >> >> I have been using Apache POI, and I faced a situation where I could use >> reflection to determine which datatype a cell should have based on the >> datatype of the value that is going to contain in Excel. > > > For reading, the normal way to do that is to fetch the cell's type, and read > the value based on that. Or, use DataFormatter to give you back a string > representation > > For writing, POI accepts both objects and primatives. If you're writing > something like a number, writing just the number isn't normally enough, you > normally also need to apply cell formatting rules to format the cell's > contents. > >> When I tried to use, for instance, anObject.getClass().cast(), the POI >> library would show an error at compile time, while this code is certainly >> valid at runtime. > > > What are you trying to cast to what? > > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
