Java POI : How to read Excel cell value and not the formula computing it?

Question

I am using Apache POI API to getting values from an Excel file. Everything is working great except with cells containing formulas. In fact, the cell.getStringCellValu

Answer 1

SelThroughJava's answer was very helpful I had to modify a bit to my code to be worked . I used https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi and https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.testng/testng as dependencies . Full code is given below with exact imports.

 import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
    import java.io.IOException;

    import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell;
    import org.apache.poi.hssf.util.CellReference;
    import org.apache.poi.sl.usermodel.Sheet;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.CellType;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.CellValue;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.FormulaEvaluator;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory;
    import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;


    public class ReadExcelFormulaValue {

        private static final CellType NUMERIC = null;
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            try {
                readFormula();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        public static void readFormula() throws IOException {
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("C:eclipse-workspace\\sam-webdbriver-diaries\\resources\\tUser_WS.xls");
            org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(fis);
            org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);

            FormulaEvaluator evaluator = workbook.getCreationHelper().createFormulaEvaluator();

            CellReference cellReference = new CellReference("G2"); // pass the cell which contains the formula
            Row row = sheet.getRow(cellReference.getRow());
            Cell cell = row.getCell(cellReference.getCol());

            CellValue cellValue = evaluator.evaluate(cell);
            System.out.println("Cell type month  is "+cellValue.getCellTypeEnum());
            System.out.println("getNumberValue month is  "+cellValue.getNumberValue());     
          //  System.out.println("getStringValue "+cellValue.getStringValue());


            cellReference = new CellReference("H2"); // pass the cell which contains the formula
             row = sheet.getRow(cellReference.getRow());
             cell = row.getCell(cellReference.getCol());

            cellValue = evaluator.evaluate(cell);
            System.out.println("getNumberValue DAY is  "+cellValue.getNumberValue());    


        }

    }