Easiest way to read Excel files in groovy?

Question

Are there any warappers/utils available to read Excel files in Groovy. I am looking for something similar to Groovy SQL\'s rows function as shown in below spock test ex

Answer 1

One of my fellow GUG members has created a tool for working with Excel using Apache POI in very much the same way you describe. It's not formalized into a library yet (AFAIK) but is available on his blog.

It allows you to write code like this:

new ExcelBuilder("customers.xls").eachLine([labels:true]) {
  new Person(name:"$firstname $lastname",
    address:address, telephone:phone).save()
}

Check it out here: http://www.technipelago.se/content/technipelago/blog/44