<changes>
<release version="3.7-beta3" date="2010-??-??">
+ <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">49887 - allow sheet names longer than 31 chars in XSSF, enforce name uniqueness on the first 31 chars</action>
<action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">49878 - improved API for hiding sheets</action>
<action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">49875 - fixed XSSFWorkbook.createSheet to throw exception if sheet name begins or ends with a single quote (')</action>
<action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">49873 - fixed XSSFFormulaEvaluator to support blank cells</action>
*/
public static final float DEFAULT_CHARACTER_WIDTH = 7.0017f;
+ /**
+ * Excel silently truncates long sheet names to 31 chars.
+ * This constant is used to ensure uniqueness in the first 31 chars
+ */
+ private static final int MAX_SENSITIVE_SHEET_NAME_LEN = 31;
+
/**
* The underlying XML bean
*/
/**
* Determines whether a workbook contains the provided sheet name.
+ * For the purpose of comparison, long names are truncated to 31 chars.
*
* @param name the name to test (case insensitive match)
* @param excludeSheetIdx the sheet to exclude from the check or -1 to include all sheets in the check.
CTSheet[] ctSheetArray = new CTSheet[workbook.getSheets().getSheetList().size()];
workbook.getSheets().getSheetList().toArray(ctSheetArray);
+ if (name.length() > MAX_SENSITIVE_SHEET_NAME_LEN) {
+ name = name.substring(0, MAX_SENSITIVE_SHEET_NAME_LEN);
+ }
+
for (int i = 0; i < ctSheetArray.length; i++) {
- if (excludeSheetIdx != i && name.equalsIgnoreCase(ctSheetArray[i].getName()))
+ String ctName = ctSheetArray[i].getName();
+ if (ctName.length() > MAX_SENSITIVE_SHEET_NAME_LEN) {
+ ctName = ctName.substring(0, MAX_SENSITIVE_SHEET_NAME_LEN);
+ }
+
+ if (excludeSheetIdx != i && name.equalsIgnoreCase(ctName))
return true;
}
return false;
assertEquals(2, wb.getSheetIndex("I changed!"));
}
+ /**
+ * POI allows creating sheets with names longer than 31 characters.
+ *
+ * Excel opens files with long sheet names without error or warning.
+ * However, long sheet names are silently truncated to 31 chars. In order to
+ * avoid funny duplicate sheet name errors, POI enforces uniqueness on only the first 31 chars.
+ * but for the purpose of uniqueness long sheet names are silently truncated to 31 chars.
+ */
+ public final void testCreateSheetWithLongNames() {
+ Workbook wb = _testDataProvider.createWorkbook();
+
+ String sheetName1 = "My very long sheet name which is longer than 31 chars";
+ Sheet sh1 = wb.createSheet(sheetName1);
+ assertEquals(sheetName1, sh1.getSheetName());
+ assertSame(sh1, wb.getSheet(sheetName1));
+
+ String sheetName2 = "My very long sheet name which is longer than 31 chars " +
+ "and sheetName2.substring(0, 31) == sheetName1.substring(0, 31)";
+ try {
+ Sheet sh2 = wb.createSheet(sheetName2);
+ fail("expected exception");
+ } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+ // expected during successful test
+ assertEquals("The workbook already contains a sheet of this name", e.getMessage());
+ }
+
+ String sheetName3 = "POI allows creating sheets with names longer than 31 characters";
+ Sheet sh3 = wb.createSheet(sheetName3);
+ assertEquals(sheetName3, sh3.getSheetName());
+ assertSame(sh3, wb.getSheet(sheetName3));
+
+ //serialize and read again
+ wb = _testDataProvider.writeOutAndReadBack(wb);
+ assertEquals(2, wb.getNumberOfSheets());
+ assertEquals(0, wb.getSheetIndex(sheetName1));
+ assertEquals(1, wb.getSheetIndex(sheetName3));
+ }
+
public final void testRemoveSheetAt() {
Workbook workbook = _testDataProvider.createWorkbook();
workbook.createSheet("sheet1");