When you say latest CVS, are you sure you got the REL_2_BRANCH rather than HEAD. If not, please do. It looks very much like our old "too many strings" bug, which has been fixed. If that doesnt work, add in the txt and java files to bugzilla as a new bug.
Regards - Avik -------Original Message------- > From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: unable to open HSSF (generated) excel file > Sent: 31 Oct 2003 04:53:19 > > using poi-bin-2.0-pre3-20030728 > platforms- win2k and solaris. > > our application queries a DB user-log table and generates a workbook sheet that contains 3 columns (plus some header columns). the 3 columns are "username" "login-time" and "logout-time" all cell values are writted out as strings. in some cases the workbook generated will not open in MS-Excel 2000. i wrote a test pgm that can recreate the problem consistently, using the the data from the DB exported into a flat file. the test pgm simply reads the file and writes to a workbook. > > i have noticed that this seems to depend on size. if i run this for records for the current month only, the report is generated correctly. if i run it for the whole year, i am unable to open the file. > > i noticed a similar thread in the list and as per the resolution note, i checked out the latest code from CVS today morning and tried re-running the test pgm with the latest jars but i get the following exception > java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException > at org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian.putNumber(LittleEndian.java:549) > at org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian.putShort(LittleEndian.java:282) > at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RowRecord.serialize(RowRecord.java:465) > at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.aggregates.RowRecordsAggregate.serializeRowBlock(RowRecordsAggregate.java:244) > at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.aggregates.RowRecordsAggregate.serialize(RowRecordsAggregate.java:275) > at org.apache.poi.hssf.model.Sheet.serialize(Sheet.java:734) > at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.getBytes(HSSFWorkbook.java:787) > at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.write(HSSFWorkbook.java:731) > at src.ReadWriteWorkbook.main(ReadWriteWorkbook.java:61) > Exception in thread "main" > > i can send out the test pgm (which is fairly straight forward) and the input test file (cannot attach it as the zipped file size is abt 150k). can someone please help me with the problem? > > note - if i try ms-excel 2002, i am able to open the file but i get an error dialog saying "errors detected in workbook, but ms excel was able to open it by making repairs listed below" the repair log says that the repairs were not possible. > > please let me know if i should open this as a bug or i should pose this to some other mailing list. > > > thanks, -------Original Message-------
