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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-2613:
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Github user jvwing commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/929
@jdye64 I still had trouble building and running NiFi with this PR.
* root POM still references nifi-poi-bundle version "1.0-SNAPSHOT"
* nifi-poi-nar still has a dependency on nifi-poi-processors version
"1.0-SNAPSHOT"
* NiFi fails to start processing the entry for
org.apache.nifi.processors.kite.ConvertAvroToParquet in
nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-kite-bundle/nifi-kite-processors/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.nifi.processor.Processor
(unintentionally included in commit?)
Would you please try running `mvn clean install -Pcontrib-check`, verifying
that the latest nifi-poi-nar is included in the lib output, and that NiFi
starts OK?
> Support extracting content from Microsoft Excel (.xlxs) documents
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> Key: NIFI-2613
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2613
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Extensions
> Reporter: Jeremy Dyer
> Assignee: Jeremy Dyer
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> Microsoft Excel is a wildly popular application that businesses rely heavily
> on to store, visualize, and calculate data. Any single company most likely
> has thousands of Excel documents containing data that could be very valuable
> if ingested via NiFi and combined with other datasources. Apache POI is a
> popular 100% Java library for parsing several Microsoft document formats
> including Excel. Apache POI is extremely flexible and can do several things.
> This issue would focus solely on using Apache POI to parse an incoming .xlxs
> document and convert it to CSV. The processor should be capable of limiting
> which excel sheets. CSV seems like the natural choice for outputting each row
> since this feature is already available in Excel and feels very natural to
> most Excel sheet designs.
> This capability should most likely introduce a new "poi" module as I envision
> many more capabilities around parsing Microsoft documents could come from
> this base effort.
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