org.gageot.excel.core
Interface CellMapper

All Known Implementing Classes:

ObjectCellMapper, StringCellMapper

public interface CellMapper

An interface used by ExcelTemplate for mapping cells. Implementations of this interface perform the actual work of mapping cells, but don't need to worry about exception handling. IOExceptions will be caught and handled correctly by the ExcelTemplate class.

Author:

David Gageot

See Also:

ExcelTemplate, SheetExtractor, RowMapper

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

mapCell(org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell cell, int rowNum, int columnNum) Implementations must implement this method to map each cell of data in the HSSFSheet.

Method Detail

mapCell

java.lang.Object mapCell(org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell cell,
                         int rowNum,
                         int columnNum)
                         throws java.io.IOException

Implementations must implement this method to map each cell of data in the HSSFSheet. This method should extract the values of the current cell.

Parameters:

cell - the HSSFCell to map

rowNum - the number of the current row

columnNum - the number of the current column

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if a IOException is encountered getting column values (that is, there's no need to catch IOException)