Re: Strange behavior in XWPF

2016-06-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Mark Murphy wrote: Where can I find that. I searched for the 58779 bug, but there is no test that references it. Sorry, not really fully up to speed on the entire project yet. I added a disabled "word read-only file to new stream" test last week, it's

Re: Fwd: Reading large XLS and XLSX excel format

2016-06-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Shivakumar e wrote: For XLSX i used OPCPackage it solved the problem.but now i am facing problem with XLS format. When i use normal POI like POIFSFileSystem to read files. i am getting java heap space error. Use a new copy of POI, and open the POIFS with a File not an

RE: Strange behavior in XWPF

2016-06-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Murphy, Mark wrote: Read Only doesn't work in XWPF, it won't let me write to any file. Plenty of bugs to go around. Hmm, that's bad, it ought to! Maybe add a quick disabled unit test for that (along the lines of the one we have for XSSF), and maybe also a XSLF one too

RE: Strange behavior in XWPF

2016-06-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Murphy, Mark wrote: Does that not cause a memory leak in Closeable objects? We need to fix the underlying bug really! For now, you can open the package Read Only to avoid it, or wait for GC to clear out the closable object a bit later Nick

Re: Strange behavior in XWPF

2016-06-01 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Murphy, Mark wrote: Then write to a different file: FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File( "createdocument.docx")); document.write(out); out.close(); document.close(); There's an issue with close and things opened from files with X??F, I'd

RE: Musings on POI Architecture

2016-06-01 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Murphy, Mark wrote: Is there a main developer for XWPF? Nope! On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Murphy, Mark wrote: Do you use the stuff in the wp package, or was that simply experimentation? It wasn't common enough to be able to swap the Tika stuff onto it, so no. I'd like to for

Re: Musings on POI Architecture

2016-06-01 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Murphy, Mark wrote: At work I have been using the SS side of POI, and have become fairly comfortable with it. I realize that there are some things still that need to be done, and some issues with XML Beans that have been discussed, but it seems fairly well organized.

Re: Fwd: Re: xmlbeans successor

2016-05-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Jason Harrop wrote: I'm pretty relaxed about the license; whatever is compatible with the original license and makes sense for ASL v2 code bases, and on Android ... Thanks! In any case, anyone could follow the recipe in the blog post to redo it. It might be worth

Re: Fwd: Re: xmlbeans successor

2016-05-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 2 May 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: On 02.05.2016 23:11, Nick Burch wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: - Jaxb (gpl licensed/not working on android) Isn't it dual GPL/CDDL 1.1? https://jaxb.java.net/ suggests it is, unless that's something else? Under certain

Re: Fwd: Re: xmlbeans successor

2016-05-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 2 May 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: - Jaxb (gpl licensed/not working on android) Isn't it dual GPL/CDDL 1.1? https://jaxb.java.net/ suggests it is, unless that's something else? Under certain restrictions, CDDL can be used: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b Nick

Re: Fwd: Re: xmlbeans successor

2016-04-24 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: I had a look at the Jasons JAXB rebundled code [1], but I guess we aren't allowed to include GPL2 code, even as a dependency or do I understand [2] wrong? Apart from a few special cases (build tools, testing resources, completely optional plugins),

Re: License

2016-04-05 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Javen O'Neal wrote: Also, do we need to add bouncy castle, jaxb, or any other 3rd party libs to our LICENSE or NOTICE file? Depends on the license that they're under Best resources for looking up what needs what is a mixture of http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html

RE: Beta time yet?

2016-03-31 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Murphy, Mark wrote: If you have any questions or comments, I would love to hear your feedback. I haven't looked at this patch of yours. However... Several small patches are easier to review and apply than one big, for un-related fixes or improvements. However, one big

RE: Beta time yet?

2016-03-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: I added a new report "mime_diffs_A_to_B_details.xlsx", which I'll send to you privately shortly. I can share this if anyone wants it, and it will be included in all future report dumps. Checking a few from there, I think the detection as only

Re: Beta time yet?

2016-03-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, kiwiwings wrote: This time I think about ant-scripting the svn changes, e.g. un-/pinning of the docs, creating the branch, uploading the artifacts. I'd like to have something like: - ant release-beta - ant release-final I've had a go at adding some things for this in

Re: Beta time yet?

2016-03-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, kiwiwings wrote: Maybe I should spent some time to script more of the manual work ... - as we use Jenkins here at my $dayjob, I'm used to (nearly) one-click-releasing the artifacts - I guess something like this would be possible with Ant too ... My vague recollection is

RE: Beta time yet?

2016-03-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: The only differences in exceptions were caused by Tika now identifying several files as xlsx vs zip or ooxml...which I can't explain. I did some work on improving exceptions in 3.14 for POIFS given non-POIFS stuff, and since then on OPCPackage

Re: Beta time yet?

2016-03-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Dominik Stadler wrote: I'm generally in favor of more releases to reduce the amount of time that people need to wait for fixes, our unit-tests and other ways of testing should catch the majority of problems quickly nowadays and if the next release is coming up soon anyway, a

Beta time yet?

2016-03-30 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I know it's not been very long at all since 3.14, but we've fixed a decent number of bugs already, including one for which Tika is awaiting a fix (TIKA-1836). What do people think about doing a beta release in a few weeks time, to get those fixes out to our users? I figure we might

Re: Build failed in Jenkins: POI #1184

2016-03-23 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Javen O'Neal wrote: There appears to be a problem with the configuration of jenkins-test-93. Is there a way to fix this worker or blacklist it? If you drop a note to builds@, they can either help you blacklist it, or help get it fixed Nick

Re: Question about Java style

2016-03-12 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Mark Murphy wrote: My new class org.apache.poi.ss.util.CellBorders has some private methods that respond to a subset of enum values being passed in. If the methods were private, I would throw an exception if an invalid enum value was passed, but since the methods are

Re: Switch to maven?

2016-03-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Dominik Stadler wrote: Here a few initial ideas where we could improve this: 1. Add some CI to the Github project so that PRs are automatically verified I think some other Apache projects already do something like this. Maybe ask on dev@community 2. Move to Git/Github

Re: Switch to maven?

2016-03-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: However also Gradle has quite a learning curve, ... I've checked their quick start for the first time ... probably I'm unaware of Gradle as I'm not an android developer, and only a maven user of spring(/hibernate)/... - at least it seems to grow

Re: Switch to maven?

2016-03-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: I'd keen to switch our ant build to a modulized maven build. I guess there were already several discussions about this topic, but I couldn't find them on a quick view. IIRC, the stuff for building the ooxml-lite jars was felt to be one bit which'd be

Re: poi 3.14 bugzilla entry

2016-03-07 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: please add the 3.14 version to our bugzilla. I've added 3.14-FINAL and 3.15-dev I've also stopped 3.13-dev, 3.9-FINAL and 3.10-FINAL from being used for new bugs. (Old bugs raised against them will keep that, it's just that new bugs can't pick them)

Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] Apache POI 3.14-final release (RC1)

2016-03-06 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: The schema updates were already in POI 3.14-beta1 ... therefore I omit the following: Excel: New version of ooxml-schema and ooxml-security jars to incorporate newer code Since not everyone tracks our betas, and it's a noticable change, I'd suggest

Re: [GitHub] poi pull request: Extends parsing for old-format Excel files

2016-03-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, edwgiz wrote: GitHub user edwgiz opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/poi/pull/28 Extends parsing for old-format Excel files Has anyone else had a chance to look at this? Seems very interesting to me, and has unit tests, which is good! Could someone

Re: Do we have any "beginner-friendly" tasks / todos / bugs?

2016-03-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Dominik Stadler wrote: I also tried to add the widget to the "contribute" section on our landing page poi.a.o, but I couldn't find a way to convince Apache Forrest to verbatim include the piece of HTML from https://helpwanted.apache.org/wtest.html This should now be sorted

Do we have any "beginner-friendly" tasks / todos / bugs?

2016-02-25 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All For those who haven't heard the announcement, a week or two ago the Apache Community Development project[1] launched "Help Wanted" https://helpwanted.apache.org/ The idea is to make it easy to match up people interested in contributing somewhere to Apache, to projects that

Re: Alternative / Replacement for xmlbeans

2016-02-19 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, nos...@kaigrabfelder.de wrote: I'm wondering if there are any activities or plans for replacing xmlbeans with something else. I'm asking a) because the xmlbeans is retired and b) it has some issues in regards to memory usage and more important scalability. Projects can

Re: 3.14 beta 2? 3.14 final?

2016-02-05 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Javen O'Neal wrote: I didn't get any responses to a keysigning party email, so I'm still out of the Apache web of trust. I need to reach out to the kind folks at [1], but in the mean time, someone else gets to do the *π* release. Pesky, you could always send a follow-up

Re: 3.14 beta 2? 3.14 final?

2016-02-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, kiwiwings wrote: I'm currently digging in the JAXB support for the document signing and this will have an impact on the security schemas, size-wise for the security stuff it will be something like 1.9mb (old version) vs. 100kb (new version) So either we decide to have the

3.14 beta 2? 3.14 final?

2016-02-03 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All It's been well over month since we released 3.14 beta 1, and from looking at the changelog we've had some interesting new features (plus bug fixes) since then. We've also got at least one user, based on bugzilla today, wanting to try those out in a proper release! So, what do we all

Re: Abstract classes vs Util classes

2016-01-18 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Javen O'Neal wrote: There are certainly some good cases for having Util classes, but sometimes the best thing is to have the functionality right in the class. The problem is there is no place to put code that would be used by all implementing classes besides a utility.

Re: Format of submitted patches

2016-01-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, Andreas Beeker wrote: What is the current preference among the POI committers and community? Receiving a patch: I haven't checked how to receive the git pull requests as I'm not having a local POI git repository - so this is currently my least preferred format. In the

Re: formatting info in Header/FooterRecords in xls(x)

2016-01-13 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: Over on TIKA-1730 [0], we have a request to hide formatting info from header/footer records for both xls and xlsx during text extraction. When I look at the text from FooterCell's getText(), it looks like we may want to add some parsing of the

Re: [Bug 58815] Javadoc spelling for grouped columns and rows

2016-01-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Dominik Stadler wrote: I think something went wrong, see https://poi.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/poi/hslf/record/TextSpecInfoRun.html Sorry! Hopefully looks better now? Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: POI Error should never happen

2015-12-29 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Uwe Friedel wrote: Exception in thread "main" org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.OpenXML4JRuntimeException: Rule M2.4 exception : this error should NEVER happen, if so please send a mail to the developers team, thanks ! You seem to be using an older version of Apache POI

Re: Java 6 support

2015-12-23 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote: Oracle released Java 6 in 2006, ended support for Java 6 in 2013 and released Java 7 in 2011 and ended support in 2015. Java 8 was released in 2014. Many of our users work for big conservative organisations, who'd much rather throw money at a vendor

Re: Vote on 3.14 beta1 (release candidate 2)

2015-12-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, David North wrote: Artefacts for review: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/poi/3.14-BETA1-RC2/ Signatures and hashes look correct, contents of the archives looks right, so I'm +1 on the release One special thing for this time though - once the release is out we

Re: Vote on 3.14-beta1

2015-12-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, David North wrote: Please can sombody identify the commits we want to port? I'd suggest you just roll 3.14 beta 1 RC2 from trunk as-is, no need for a special branch Nick - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Vote on 3.14-beta1

2015-12-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, David North wrote: - where are the maven artifacts? We normally upload these into a /maven/ subdirectory in the dist-dev, for people to check, then upload into Nexus + delete before moving the binary + source releases to the main dev area. Might need an update for the

Re: Vote on 3.14-beta1

2015-12-07 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: ... and my 2 cents: - most notable section is a bit short, for so many changes (... but I'm also always puzzled what to mention and what to skip) It's always a tough call, and a manual process, just needs to be anything you think counts as major in

Re: Ready for 3.14-Beta1?

2015-12-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote: Does releasing require having a community-trusted PGP key? I haven't outside the Apache web-of-trust (for now). Ideally a key in the Apache WoT, but one well into an alternate WoT (eg Debian) could work. If you let me know off-list where in the World

Re: Built-in function code

2015-12-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote: In FunctionEval.java [1], there's an array that maps the binary function code used in BIFF8 to a function instance. There's also src/resources/main/org/apache/poi/ss/formula/function/functionMetadata.txt I'm implementing Days [2] for bug 58468 [3],

Re: Built-in function code

2015-12-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote: From what I can tell, DAYS wasn't added until Excel 2013 [1]. Clearly this means DAYS is not a recognized function in BIFF8. I developed a solution [2] for saving unregistered functions in bug 58452, but this gets tricky with common SS support regarding

Re: Ready for 3.14-Beta1?

2015-11-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote: Probably before 3.14b1, we'll want to update * http://poi.apache.org/overview.html#components * Bugzilla component for product=POI for Common SL support Both done! For some reason when I generate javadocs on my computer, nearly every file changes. The

Re: Ready for 3.14-Beta1?

2015-11-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote: On Nov 30, 2015 11:51 AM, "Nick Burch" For the JavaDocs, it isn't the ant version nor the forrest version that matters, only that of the JDK (and hence that of the javadoc tool) I'm using Oracle JDK 8 on Linux x64. Are you using OpenJDK/Iced

Re: DataFormatter vs. org.apache.poi.ss.format classes

2015-11-27 Thread Nick Burch
On 27/11/15 00:53, Andreas Beeker wrote: Would it be ok, if DataFormatter delegates much of its logic to the org.apache.poi.ss.format classes? I actually ended up doing that for one case a month or so back! You should notice a TODO at the top of both DataFormatter and CellFormat saying they

Re: compile-ooxml-xsds target rebuilt by Ant on every "test"

2015-11-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote: When running "ant compile", "ant test-ooxml", or "ant test", I notice that ant rebuilds the "compile-ooxml-xsds" target every time. Do the ooxml-schemas-1.3.jar and ooxml-security-1.1.jar need to be rebuilt each time I run test? There should be an

POI questions on StackOverflow

2015-11-26 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All This may be old news for some of you, in which case you can skip the email, but for others... StackOverflow is a programming-focused question and answer site, with excellent google-foo, quite wide use, and growing use. At the moment I'd say there's something like 4 new POI questions a

Re: SpecialPropertySet hard codes ASCII charset

2015-11-18 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Azfar Kazmi wrote: I have attached a unit test and ppt file that it uses. Any chance you could open a bug in bugzilla, and attach both their? The mailing list tends to eat attachments is one issue, forgetting about issues not in bugzilla is another...! Thanks Nick

Re: SpecialPropertySet hard codes ASCII charset

2015-11-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Azfar Kazmi wrote: I am using 3.13 and noticed that SpecialPropertySet now uses hard coded ASCII charset when it creates a new String out of byte[]. This change was introduced in September by revision 1700677. That was as part of the "forbidden APIs" cleanup, to get POI

Re: Potential POI 3.13 performance regression

2015-11-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Jon Iles wrote: I've been advised that one change which was made between 3.12 and 3.13 was the move from OPOIFS to NPOIFS. I'm not familiar with the internals of POI, and I'm wondering if it is possible to switch between these two implementations in 3.13 to see if this

Re: Merging security schema to full schema

2015-10-29 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, David North wrote: In the 3.13 release, we had: poi-ooxml-schemas-3.13-20150929.jar at 5.4MB. This is the 'lite' JAR recommended for normal use, containing relevant parts of all supported formats + security. Which isn't quite so lite as it once was... But yes! And if

Re: Maintenance of pull requests on GitHub

2015-10-26 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, David North wrote: How do I obtain powers to close request https://github.com/apache/poi/pull/24, given that I've put it into SVN? Currently, you can't directly, see discussion on the infrastructure@ and infrastructure-dev@ lists for details on the on-going work to get

Re: Plan for 3.14 beta 1

2015-10-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, David North wrote: So, questions... Where is the documentation on how to produce/sign a release package? https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/site/src/documentation/release-guide.txt There are links near the top of that to the underlying Apache policies and release

Re: Minutes from discussion at ApacheCon Core Europe 2015

2015-10-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Javen O'Neal wrote: I was thinking we should treat documentation artifacts like build artifacts: only version control the source, host the artifacts on a regular file server. Consider moving documentation build artifacts to non-version-controlled web server. Currently, the

Re: Remove HDF?

2015-09-28 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: although I hardly do anything in the x/hwpf package and therefore don't know the connections, would it be ok, if I finally remove the hdf packages (and update the docs[1])? I think I was going to remove HDF about 8 years ago... However, maybe to be

Re: update website javadocs

2015-09-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: please update the javadocs for 3.13 again. I've used the unofficial windows openjdk 1.7 and it shuffles the javadocs, too. Just tried, and it says that there are no changes, so I think we're all good! Thanks Nick

Re: poi-ooxml-schemas-3.13-beta1.20150723.jar missing some classes

2015-09-25 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Patrick Bakker wrote: I'd love to do write a simple unit test if I knew how that connected to anything. The way we work out what classes to pull from the large ooxml-schemas and ooxml-security jars, into the smaller poi-ooxml-schemaes jar, is by running the full junit

Re: poi-ooxml-schemas-3.13-beta1.20150723.jar missing some classes

2015-09-24 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Patrick Bakker wrote: Missing classes in the poi-ooxml-schemas-3.13.beta1-20150723.jar so far are: org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTSignedTwipsMeasure org.etsi.uri.x01903.v13.AnyType If you could provide us with a unit test that makes use of those,

Re: 3.13 beta 2 time?

2015-09-21 Thread Nick Burch
On 19/09/15 21:21, Dominik Stadler wrote: Sounds good to me! Maybe we should do a 3.13 soon as well before starting to add the Visio stuff as that wpuld likely delay things some more ... One option might be to aim to release 3.13 final and 3.14 beta 1 around the same time, the former without

Re: 3.13 beta 2 time?

2015-09-18 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Nick Burch wrote: It hasn't been very long since our last beta, but we've managed to pack quite a lot in that I think we want feedback on! The main thing is obviously the SlideShow work that's come over to trunk, but also some conditional formating updates and SXSSF basic

[IP CLEARANCE] Apache POI - Visio XDGF

2015-09-15 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All We think we've now done everything for the IP Clearance of the Visio XDGF contribution to Apache POI. The completed template can be found at: http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/poi-visio.html Please do let us know if we've missed anything / done anything wrong! Otherwise, we'll

Re: Hello! + Visio/XDGF integration tasks

2015-09-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: Could you do a new dump with the updated headers? We can then review those, and use that as the basis for the import once we're all happy Updated dump made in a branch on github: The diff:

Re: Hello! + Visio/XDGF integration tasks

2015-09-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: * Finish the IP clearance template (looks like most of it is done?) I think we only have one item left now! * Change the copyright headers to Apache (where should I dump the code once this is done?) Could you do a new dump with the updated

Re: Build duration increased dramatically

2015-09-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Dominik Stadler wrote: The latest build ran on a different machine and was fast again, so it seems to be only caused by a slow CI machine, see https://builds.apache.org/view/POI/job/POI/buildTimeTrend for the trend. Might be worth flagging to the builds team then, I

Re: Build duration increased dramatically

2015-09-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Dominik Stadler wrote: The two main steps are * Build, test, binaries, javadocs, rat-check, forbidden-api-check, ...: Total time: 80 minutes 44 seconds On my laptop, which is several years old and increasingly sulky, that all takes single digit minutes. clean + test +

ApacheCon Europe meetup and/or hackathon?

2015-09-08 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All I gather we've a fair number of Apache POI and Tika committers coming to Budapest for ApacheCon's Europe and Big Data [1][2], in Budapest in a few weeks time (28th Sept - 2nd Oct) Having checked with the organisers, we can get a room one evening for a meetup and hackathon, if we'd

Adding XDGF - help needed

2015-08-26 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All As discussed in bug #58087 https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58087, we've had the offer + paperwork to contribute a new POI component, XDGF, to handle visio .vsdx files. The code for that is on github, at https://github.com/BBN-D/poi-visio I'm currently filling out the

Re: Findbugs - NM_SAME_SIMPLE_NAME_AS_SUPERCLASS

2015-08-19 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: On 15.08.2015 19:59, Nick Burch wrote: Any chance you could point us to a couple of examples? Might help with evaluating if we feel it's a real problem or not Just open the findbugs page and navigate to the type named in the thread subject or use [1

Re: Findbugs - NM_SAME_SIMPLE_NAME_AS_SUPERCLASS

2015-08-15 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: we have several cases of NM_SAME_SIMPLE_NAME_AS_SUPERCLASS in the findbugs reports and as the description says, this is confusing Any chance you could point us to a couple of examples? Might help with evaluating if we feel it's a real problem or not

Re: svn commit: r1694753 - in /poi/trunk: .classpath src/contrib/src/org/apache/ src/contrib/src/org/apache/poi/ src/contrib/src/org/apache/poi/ss/ src/contrib/src/org/apache/poi/ss/ExcelComparator.ja

2015-08-09 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, kiwiwi...@apache.org wrote: Added: poi/trunk/src/contrib/src/org/apache/ I thought we'd decided a while back to ditch the contrib area? Everything from there either went into core / ooxml / scratchpad (useable as-is), or example (works but normally needs changes to

Re: failing gump build and xmlinputfactory

2015-08-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, kiwiwings wrote: our gump build is still failing [1] and I've tried to work around the missing woodstox reference in TestPPTX2PNG and PresetGeometries. You could try asking builds@ to see if they've any idea / seen it before. Since the build is ok on Jenkins (I believe?),

Re: 3.13 beta 2 time?

2015-08-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: I'm currently adapting #58190 - the idea of the bug will remain, but the implementation is actually different to the patch provided. Sounds a good reason to wait to me! Shout when you're done :) Nick

3.13 beta 2 time?

2015-08-01 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All It hasn't been very long since our last beta, but we've managed to pack quite a lot in that I think we want feedback on! The main thing is obviously the SlideShow work that's come over to trunk, but also some conditional formating updates and SXSSF basic formula eval. What does

Re: Maven artifacts changed

2015-07-31 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Gordon Pettey wrote: For POI 3.12, the Maven artifact classifier for javadoc got an s added, so is now -javadocs.jar. This is non-standard and breaks tools that auto-download a javadoc classifier along with the main artifact. The POI 3.13 snapshots have the same problem.

Re: 3.13 first beta?

2015-07-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: May I start with the next beta release? The quick bit of Conditional Formatting stuff I've been working on this week looks to be a bit bigger than I'd first anticipated... It's in a stable state part-implemented, so you ought to be fine to cut a

3.13 first beta?

2015-07-09 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All While we haven't done that many changes since 3.12 by number, we have done one big change by scope, that of switching the default POIFS implementation to NPOIFS. I think we've now ironed out all the issues with that switch (thanks for everyone who helped test!), but I think we might

Re: New menu-item related projects

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Dominik Stadler wrote: FYI, I have added a new section related projects where I listed some projects that are related to POI in some way, primarily Tika, two incubating that sound related and at least NPOI. Great, thanks! Let me know what you think? Any obvious others

Re: Accepting all Changes / Reading only accepted changes

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Henning Femmer wrote: I now wrote a workaround to fix this issue for myself, feel free to adapt and include it in the code, if you like: Would you be able to raise a new bug in bugzilla, and post your code there? Bonus marks if you could also upload a very small word file

Re: [Announce] New Committer and PMC Member, David North

2015-06-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 3 Jun 2015, David North wrote: Should I be able to log into bugzilla using my ASF credentials? It doesn't seem to accept them, but obviously the account I've been reporting bugs as previously doesn't let me edit the assignee, etc. They have different account databases. So, just keep

Re: style guidelines?

2015-05-28 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: As ongoing penance for my regrettable past (really it is behind me...I hope...), I'd like to start cleaning up some of the code whenever I come across style issues. I'll follow the guidance of fixing whitespace in separate patches from content

Re: svn commit: r1682117 - /poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/document/index.xml

2015-05-28 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: In the context of the jackcess-discussion, I'd even more prefer, if we split those components to separate jars having the X/H??F classes together. It certainly used to be the case that some users didn't want the X##F family of documents, and didn't

Re: svn commit: r1682117 - /poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/document/index.xml

2015-05-27 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 27 May 2015, cen...@apache.org wrote: adjust instructions for XWPF to note that scratchpad-jar is needed as well Should that be the case though? Ideally we should have the core classes/interfaces in the main jar, so that the ooxml classes can work without scratchpad. I'd say it's

[Announce] New Committer and PMC Member, David North

2015-05-21 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All On behalf of the Apache POI PMC, we're pleased to announce that David North has been elected as a committer and PMC member for the project! For anyone else thinking of getting involved, there's some information available on the project website at http://poi.apache.org/guidelines.html

Advice for new and potential committers

2015-05-21 Thread Nick Burch
Hi All As we've just added a new committer, and we've a few people working away in the community who might be committer material in the future, I thought it might be helpful to write some notes and advice for newer members. This is a little bit of a brain-dump, so please shout if something

Re: Extraction of row/column super-interfaces to make streaming more friendly

2015-05-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 15 May 2015, David North wrote: One change which we have in our local build of POI is the extraction of super-interfaces to make streaming read of worksheets a bit nicer: CellEssence is implemented by XSSFCell, HSSFCell and SXSSFCell: RowEssence is similar and exposes CellEssences for

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Apache POI 3.12 released

2015-05-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 14 May 2015, Larry Wilson wrote: Any ETA on when this will be pushed to the Maven Repository (http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi)? It's available on the main Apache maven repo site: https://repository.apache.org/#nexus-search;quick~org.apache.poi And it's available on

Re: Proposed changes to class hierarchy of POITextExtractor

2015-05-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 11 May 2015, Dominik Stadler wrote: I would like to fix this by moving the POIDocument member to the point in the class-hierarchy where it is actually used, POIOLE2TextExtractor to not pollute the classes under POIXMLTextExtractor with this. Makes sense to me. I think we nearly did

Re: site update - svn differences through linebreaks

2015-05-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 12 May 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: the site updates result in quite a lot of differences when I update them on my Windows box using jdk 1.7.0_72. I've noticed two issues: - javadocs are not always ordered the same way - linebreak differences For the the javadocs I've already changed

Re: Todos / common sl implementation notes

2015-05-11 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 11 May 2015, Dominik Stadler wrote: I would like to keep information like this on the official poi page so every committer can update the information and it is not distributed across different places. We do have one or two places listing upcoming changes, I think dating back 15

Re: [VOTE] Apache POI 3.12-final release (RC3)

2015-05-10 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 9 May 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: here is the 3rd release candidate, which is accessible under: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/poi/3.12-final-rc3/ keys and hashes pass, everything that should/shouldn't be there seems correct, so I'm +1 One thing on the keys though - the gpg

Re: [VOTE] Apache POI 3.12-final release (RC2)

2015-05-09 Thread Nick Burch
On Sat, 9 May 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: After reading your response, I've noticed that I broaden the context a bit. I only meant poi-src-3.12-20150511.tar.gz/.zip, not the maven source jars, which I also prefer when working with open source. As far as the foundation is concerned, the most

Re: [VOTE] Apache POI 3.12-final release (RC2)

2015-05-08 Thread Nick Burch
On Fri, 8 May 2015, kiwiwings wrote: With my slow DSL, I've started to wonder anyway if we really need (to upload/provide) those src archives. If someone wants to get involved, they should fetch the trunk from the svn. We're an open source project, so the most important part of the release is

Re: [VOTE] Apache POI 3.12-final release

2015-05-07 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 7 May 2015, kiwiwings wrote: Sorry, I wasn't aware that my test output files will be included in the src package. I find it's normally safest to build releases from a different, clean + fresh checkout. I say this as someone having made the same mistake in the past... Nick

Re: Another beta?

2015-05-04 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 4 May 2015, Andreas Beeker wrote: On 04.05.2015 22:26, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: While working on TIKA-1315, I found a source for an NPE in XWPFParagraph, and I'd also like to add some tests that will force inclusion of some of the lower-level ooxml classes for paragraph numbering.

Re: Another beta?

2015-04-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, kiwiwings wrote: Nick Burch-2 wrote What do people think about us doing a new beta, 3.12 beta 2, fairly soon? Worth doing now, or worth waiting for a specific bug/feature first? I wouldn't mind if we have a final soon. OK, doing a final shortly then merging in the SL

RE: Integrating Jackcess with POI?

2015-04-30 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: We see advantages: 1) It just makes sense to have one centralized MSOffice parsing library 2) Increasing public awareness of each other's projects 3) sparking more cross-project, well, inner-project, collaboration among the POI and Jackcess

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