Hi Dominik,
there's a replacement, but with a limitation.
the limitation: asking users to execute BiffViewer with the poi.jar won't work
anymore.
I can't remember having seen this request ever.
In other usecases - use the Junit c<lasses in
poi::test::org.apache.poi.hssf.dev directly.
Those contain now the functionality originally provided by the poi::main
classes.
Overriding BaseTestIteratingXLS::files() makes it easy to define the files to
be parsed.
I usually prefer test drivers to main() invocations and also use test drivers
when developing examples.
For the visual inclined (aka Klickibunti), there's another alternative:
https://github.com/kiwiwings/poi-visualizer
Andi
On 25.11.21 07:32, Dominik Stadler wrote:
Hi Andi,
It seems you removed the main() method from BiffViewer as part of this
move. This was a handy tool on it's own for inspecting the raw contents of
.xls files, fairly useful when investigating bugs with handling of the raw
format in HSSF. Is there a replacement?
Not sure about the other tools that are gone now, they might be useful for
some specific things, but at least I did not use them much.
Thanks... Dominik.
On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 3:31 PM Andreas Beeker <kiwiwi...@apache.org> wrote:
Hi Devs,
those *-saved.xls left-overs in the test-data directory cause/d build
problems.
I'm quite sure those are created by org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.ReSave.
I'll now move all development utils of that package to poi:test and change
the output directory to the temp path, because I think those tools are used
by developers working on the source / project ... or I'll remove a few
completely, as the same functionality is invoked many times by the other
tests.
Andi
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