How to determine empty row?

Question

How I can determine empty rows in .xls documents using Apache POI?

Answer 1

The row iterator returns only rows that contain data, however if they are completely empty then iterating by row index, getRow(index) returns null

Solution:

Up to POI version 3.14 (thanks to Sergii Lisnychyi):

private boolean checkIfRowIsEmpty(Row row) {
    if (row == null) {
        return true;
    }
    if (row.getLastCellNum() <= 0) {
        return true;
    }
    for (int cellNum = row.getFirstCellNum(); cellNum < row.getLastCellNum(); cellNum++) {
        Cell cell = row.getCell(cellNum);
        if (cell != null && cell.getCellType() != Cell.CELL_TYPE_BLANK && StringUtils.isNotBlank(cell.toString())) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

From POI version 3.15 to 4.2 (int getCellType() is deprecated):

    private boolean checkIfRowIsEmpty(Row row) {
    if (row == null) {
        return true;
    }
    if (row.getLastCellNum() <= 0) {
        return true;
    }
    for (int cellNum = row.getFirstCellNum(); cellNum < row.getLastCellNum(); cellNum++) {
        Cell cell = row.getCell(cellNum);
        if (cell != null && cell.getCellTypeEnum() != CellType.BLANK && StringUtils.isNotBlank(cell.toString())) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

From POI version 4 (CellTypeEnum getCellTypeEnum() will return the Enum not int):

private boolean checkIfRowIsEmpty(Row row) {
    if (row == null) {
        return true;
    }
    if (row.getLastCellNum() <= 0) {
        return true;
    }
    for (int cellNum = row.getFirstCellNum(); cellNum < row.getLastCellNum(); cellNum++) {
        Cell cell = row.getCell(cellNum);
        if (cell != null && cell.getCellTypeEnum() != CellType.BLANK && StringUtils.isNotBlank(cell.toString())) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

Answer 2

try using if(iterator.hasNext)

Row nextRow = null;
Cell nextCell = null;
Iterator<Row> iterator = firstSheet.rowIterator();
if(iterator.hasNext) {
    return true;
}
else {
    return false;
}

Answer 3

Assuming you want to check if row n is empty, remembering that rows in Apache POI are zero based not one based, you'd want something like:

 Row r = sheet.getRow(n-1); // 2nd row = row 1
 boolean hasData = true;

 if (r == null) {
    // Row has never been used
    hasData = false;
 } else {
    // Check to see if all cells in the row are blank (empty)
    hasData = false;
    for (Cell c : r) {
       if (c.getCellType() != Cell.CELL_TYPE_BLANK) {
         hasData = true;
         break;
       }
    }
 }