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Commit 269a0de57ba23b0fd81780c1c561574143933780 in nifi's branch
refs/heads/main from Vincenzo Lombardo
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=nifi.git;h=269a0de57ba ]
NIFI-16443 Added Ignore Cells Beyond Header property to ExcelReader (#11783)
* NIFI-16443 Added Ignore Cells Beyond Header property to ExcelReader
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
> Add Ignore Cells Beyond Header property to ExcelReader
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: NIFI-16443
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-16443
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Extensions
> Reporter: Vincenzo Lombardo
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: excel-reader-extra-cells-sample.xlsx
>
> Time Spent: 40m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> When the ExcelReader is configured with Schema Access Strategy "Use Starting
> Row", schema inference fails if any evaluated row has more cells than the
> header row:
> {noformat}
> SchemaNotFoundException: Row 1 has 14 cells, more than the expected 6 number
> of field names
> {noformat}
> This is common with spreadsheets edited by hand or exported from other tools:
> cells to the right of the data are often blank but formatted, and Apache POI
> includes them in the row. The sheet looks correct in Excel, but cannot be
> read without manually cleaning it first.
> Proposed change: add an optional property "Ignore Cells Beyond Header"
> (default false, so the current behavior is unchanged), visible only with the
> "Use Starting Row" strategy:
> * cells beyond the last header column are ignored during schema inference;
> * blank cells (including whitespace-only strings and formulas evaluating to
> an empty string) are ignored silently;
> * when ignored cells contain a value, a single warning per sheet is logged,
> reporting the number of affected rows and the first position (row and
> column), so that data is never dropped silently.
> Only the rows evaluated according to the "Row Evaluation Strategy" are
> checked for extra cells; rows that are not evaluated during inference are not
> inspected.
> No change is needed in ExcelRecordReader: when reading records it already
> skips cells beyond the schema fields (or exposes them as
> unknown_field_index_N when unknown fields are not dropped).
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