Read an Excel file in a java action

[germangq]

I have to read the content of an excel file in a java backed webscript because I need to save the rows in a table in my database. The problem is that when I execute my action I just have a node and I don't know hoy to convert it to a excel file to use Apache POI o something like this to read the content of the file.

I have tried using the "transform and copy" action, to convert the excel file into a CSV file, but with this the empty cells just don't show in the csv and in those cases I don't have the same number of columns.

The other restriction is that I can't modify the excel file before to insert it in alfresco.

Anyone have any suggestion to reach that?

[angelborroy]

You can have the content of a node by using Java API on an Action:

alfresco-simple-ocr/OCRExtractAction.java at master · keensoft/alfresco-simple-ocr · GitHub 

Hope this helps.