Cannot get a text value from a numeric cell “Poi”

Question

I\'m trying to consume data from a spreadsheet in Excel, but always of this error, already tried formatting the worksheet to text and number and still the error persists.

Answer 1

Using the DataFormatter this issue is resolved. Thanks to "Gagravarr" for the initial post.

DataFormatter formatter = new DataFormatter();

String empno = formatter.formatCellValue(cell0);

Answer 2

This is one of the other method to solve the Error: "Cannot get a text value from a numeric cell “Poi”"

Go to the Excel Sheet. Drag and Select the Numerics which you are importing Data from the Excel sheet. Go to Format > Number > Then Select "Plain Text" Then Export as .xlsx. Now Try to Run the Script

Hope works Fine...!

Cannot get a text value from a numeric cell “Poi”.img

Answer 3

This will work:

WebElement searchbox = driver.findElement(By.name("j_username"));
WebElement searchbox2 = driver.findElement(By.name("j_password"));         


try {

      FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\paulo.xls")); 
      HSSFWorkbook workbook = new HSSFWorkbook(file);

      HSSFSheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);

    for (int i=1; i <= sheet.getLastRowNum(); i++){

            HSSFCell j_username = sheet.getRow(i).getCell(0)
            HSSFCell j_password = sheet.getRow(i).getCell(0)

            //Setting the Cell type as String
            j_username.setCellType(j_username.CELL_TYPE_STRING)
            j_password.setCellType(j_password.CELL_TYPE_STRING)

            searchbox.sendKeys(j_username.toString());
            searchbox2.sendKeys(j_password.toString());


            searchbox.submit();       

            driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

    }

      workbook.close();
      file.close();

     } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
      fnfe.printStackTrace();
     } catch (IOException ioe) {
      ioe.printStackTrace();
     }

Answer 4

Formatter will work fine in this case.

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.DataFormatter;

FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(workbookName);
Workbook workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(fis);
Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheet(sheetName);
DataFormatter formatter = new DataFormatter();
String val = formatter.formatCellValue(sheet.getRow(row).getCell(col));
list.add(val);   //Adding value to list

Answer 5

use the code
cell.setCellType(Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING);
before reading the string value, Which can help you.
I am using POI version 3.17 Beta1 version, sure the version compatibility also..