Question

I have just Extracted the cells from the excel sheet using Apache POI, everything is working fine. But whenever there is an empty cell, the very next right cell data is what I get as a output. But, if exists a value in the latter, the desired output is coming.

This is the logic I’ve written.

    Iterator<Row> rowIterator=sheet.rowIterator();
    while(rowIterator.hasNext())
    {

        ExtractedRowsString extRows=new ExtractedRowsString();
        ArrayList<HSSFCell> list=new ArrayList<HSSFCell>();
        HSSFRow row=(HSSFRow) rowIterator.next();

        Iterator<Cell> cellIterator=row.cellIterator();
        while(cellIterator.hasNext())
        {
            HSSFCell cell=(HSSFCell)cellIterator.next();
            list.add(cell); 
        }
        if(check)
        {
            addBean(list,extRows);
            print(extRows);
        }

        check=true;

    }

What may be the problem?

EDITED :

public static void addBean(ArrayList list,ExtractedRowsString extRows)
{
    for(int i=0;i<list.size();i++)
    {
        switch(i)
        {
            case 0:
                extRows.setSchool_success_id((list.get(i)).toString());
                break;
            case 1:
                extRows.setPem_id( (list.get(i)).toString() );
                break;  
            case 2:
                extRows.setDistrict_code((list.get(i)).toString());
                break;
            case 3:
                extRows.setDistrict((list.get(i)).toString());
                break;

        }
    }
}

Answer 1

From the docs:

cellIterator

public java.util.Iterator cellIterator()

Specified by:
cellIterator in interface Row

Returns:
cell iterator of the physically
defined cells. Note that the 4th
element might well not be cell 4, as
the iterator will not return
un-defined (null) cells. Call
getCellNum() on the returned cells to
know which cell they are. As this only
ever works on physically defined
cells, the Row.MissingCellPolicy has
no effect.

In short, empty cells do not show up in the iterator so you always have to check which cell you got.