Error While Reading Large Excel Files (xlsx) Via Apache POI

Question

I am trying to read large excel files xlsx via Apache POI, say 40-50 MB. I am getting out of memory exception. The current heap memory is 3GB.

I can read smaller exc

Answer 1

In the bellwo example I'll add a complete code how to parse a complete excel file (for me 60Mo) into list of object without any problem of "out of memory" and work fine:

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;


class DistinctByProperty {

    private static OPCPackage xlsxPackage = null;
    private static PrintStream output= System.out;
    private static List resultMapping = new ArrayList<>();


    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        File file = new File("C:\\Users\\aberguig032018\\Downloads\\your_excel.xlsx");

        double bytes = file.length();
        double kilobytes = (bytes / 1024);
        double megabytes = (kilobytes / 1024);
        System.out.println("Size "+megabytes);

        parseExcel(file);
    }

    public static void parseExcel(File file) throws IOException {

        try {
            xlsxPackage = OPCPackage.open(file.getAbsolutePath(), PackageAccess.READ);
            ReadOnlySharedStringsTable strings = new ReadOnlySharedStringsTable(xlsxPackage);
            XSSFReader xssfReader = new XSSFReader(xlsxPackage);
            StylesTable styles = xssfReader.getStylesTable();
            XSSFReader.SheetIterator iter = (XSSFReader.SheetIterator) xssfReader.getSheetsData();
            int index = 0;
            while (iter.hasNext()) {
                try (InputStream stream = iter.next()) {
                    String sheetName = iter.getSheetName();
                    output.println();
                    output.println(sheetName + " [index=" + index + "]:");
                    processSheet(styles, strings, new MappingFromXml(resultMapping), stream);
                }
                ++index;
            }

        } catch (InvalidFormatException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (OpenXML4JException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SAXException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static void processSheet(StylesTable styles, ReadOnlySharedStringsTable strings, MappingFromXml mappingFromXml, InputStream sheetInputStream) throws IOException, SAXException {
        DataFormatter formatter = new DataFormatter();
        InputSource sheetSource = new InputSource(sheetInputStream);
        try {
            XMLReader sheetParser = SAXHelper.newXMLReader();
            ContentHandler handler = new XSSFSheetXMLHandler(
                    styles, null, strings, mappingFromXml, formatter, false);

            sheetParser.setContentHandler(handler);
            sheetParser.parse(sheetSource);
            System.out.println("Size of Array "+resultMapping.size());
        } catch(ParserConfigurationException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("SAX parser appears to be broken - " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

you have to add a calss that implements

SheetContentsHandler

import com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.operations.Bool;
import org.apache.poi.ss.util.CellAddress;
import org.apache.poi.ss.util.CellReference;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.eventusermodel.XSSFSheetXMLHandler.SheetContentsHandler;

import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFComment;

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class MappingFromXml implements SheetContentsHandler {

    private List result = new ArrayList<>();
    private myObject myObject = null;
    private int lineNumber = 0;
    /**
     * Number of columns to read starting with leftmost
     */
    private int minColumns = 25;
    /**
     * Destination for data
     */
    private PrintStream output = System.out;

    public MappingFromXml(List list) {
        this.result = list;
    }

    @Override
    public void startRow(int i) {
        output.println("iii " + i);
        lineNumber = i;
        myObject = new myObject();
    }

    @Override
    public void endRow(int i) {
        output.println("jjj " + i);
        result.add(myObject);
        myObject = null;
    }

    @Override
    public void cell(String cellReference, String formattedValue, XSSFComment comment) {
        int columnIndex = (new CellReference(cellReference)).getCol();

        if(lineNumber > 0){
            switch (columnIndex) {
                case 0: {//Tech id
                    if (formattedValue != null && !formattedValue.isEmpty())
                        myObject.setId(Integer.parseInt(formattedValue));
                }
                break;
                //TODO add other cell
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void headerFooter(String s, boolean b, String s1) {

    }
}

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