How to get an Excel Blank Cell Value in Apache POI?

Question

I have a huge excel file with tons of columns which looks like this :-

Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4 Column5
abc             def             ghi
        mn         


        

Answer 1

        for(org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row tmp : hssfSheet){
            for(int i = 0; i<8;i++){
                System.out.println(tmp.getCell(i));
            }               
        }

Answer 2

for (Row row: sheet){
// This will return null if cell is empty / blank
Cell cell = row.getCell(columnNumber);
}

Answer 3

If you want to get all cells, no matter if they exist or not, then the iterator isn't for you. Instead, you need to manually fetch the appropriate cells, likely with a missing cell policy

for(Row row : sheet) {
   for(int cn=0; cn<row.getLastCellNum(); cn++) {
       // If the cell is missing from the file, generate a blank one
       // (Works by specifying a MissingCellPolicy)
       Cell cell = row.getCell(cn, Row.MissingCellPolicy.CREATE_NULL_AS_BLANK);
       // Print the cell for debugging
       System.out.println("CELL: " + cn + " --> " + cell.toString());
   }
}

There's more details on all of this in the Apache POI documentation on iterating over cells