Replacing a text in Apache POI XWPF

Question

I just found Apache POI library very useful for editing Word files using Java. Specifically, I want to edit a DOCX file using Apache POI\'s XWPF classes. I

Answer 1

If somebody needs also to keep the formatting of the text, this code works better.

private static Map getPosToRuns(XWPFParagraph paragraph) {
    int pos = 0;
    Map map = new HashMap(10);
    for (XWPFRun run : paragraph.getRuns()) {
        String runText = run.text();
        if (runText != null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < runText.length(); i++) {
                map.put(pos + i, run);
            }
            pos += runText.length();
        }
    }
    return (map);
}

public static  void replace(XWPFDocument document, Map map) {
    List paragraphs = document.getParagraphs();
    for (XWPFParagraph paragraph : paragraphs) {
        replace(paragraph, map);
    }
}

public static  void replace(XWPFDocument document, String searchText, V replacement) {
    List paragraphs = document.getParagraphs();
    for (XWPFParagraph paragraph : paragraphs) {
        replace(paragraph, searchText, replacement);
    }
}

private static  void replace(XWPFParagraph paragraph, Map map) {
    for (Map.Entry entry : map.entrySet()) {
        replace(paragraph, entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
    }
}

public static  void replace(XWPFParagraph paragraph, String searchText, V replacement) {
    boolean found = true;
    while (found) {
        found = false;
        int pos = paragraph.getText().indexOf(searchText);
        if (pos >= 0) {
            found = true;
            Map posToRuns = getPosToRuns(paragraph);
            XWPFRun run = posToRuns.get(pos);
            XWPFRun lastRun = posToRuns.get(pos + searchText.length() - 1);
            int runNum = paragraph.getRuns().indexOf(run);
            int lastRunNum = paragraph.getRuns().indexOf(lastRun);
            String texts[] = replacement.toString().split("\n");
            run.setText(texts[0], 0);
            XWPFRun newRun = run;
            for (int i = 1; i < texts.length; i++) {
                newRun.addCarriageReturn();
                newRun = paragraph.insertNewRun(runNum + i);
                /*
                    We should copy all style attributes
                    to the newRun from run
                    also from background color, ...
                    Here we duplicate only the simple attributes...
                 */
                newRun.setText(texts[i]);
                newRun.setBold(run.isBold());
                newRun.setCapitalized(run.isCapitalized());
                // newRun.setCharacterSpacing(run.getCharacterSpacing());
                newRun.setColor(run.getColor());
                newRun.setDoubleStrikethrough(run.isDoubleStrikeThrough());
                newRun.setEmbossed(run.isEmbossed());
                newRun.setFontFamily(run.getFontFamily());
                newRun.setFontSize(run.getFontSize());
                newRun.setImprinted(run.isImprinted());
                newRun.setItalic(run.isItalic());
                newRun.setKerning(run.getKerning());
                newRun.setShadow(run.isShadowed());
                newRun.setSmallCaps(run.isSmallCaps());
                newRun.setStrikeThrough(run.isStrikeThrough());
                newRun.setSubscript(run.getSubscript());
                newRun.setUnderline(run.getUnderline());
            }
            for (int i = lastRunNum + texts.length - 1; i > runNum + texts.length - 1; i--) {
                paragraph.removeRun(i);
            }
        }
    }
}