how to return excel in Struts2 result?

Question

I am trying to return an Excel sheet from my struts2 action class.

I am not sure what result-type should I be using? Has anyone tried to return an excel from strut

Answer 1

Omnipresent covered what you need in struts.xml. I'm adding an example with the Action as well:

InputStream excelStream
String contentDisposition
String documentFormat = "xlsx"

String excel() {

    ServletContext servletContext = ServletActionContext.getServletContext()
    String filePath = servletContext.getRealPath("/WEB-INF/template/excel/mytemplate.${documentFormat}")

    File file = new File(filePath)
    Workbook wb = WorkbookFactory.create(new FileInputStream(file))

    Sheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0)



    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
    wb.write(baos)
    excelStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray())
    contentDisposition = "filename=\"myfilename.${documentFormat}\""

    return SUCCESS
}

String getExcelContentType() {
    return documentFormat == "xlsx" ? "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet" : "application/vnd.ms-excel"
}

I'm using the poi model: org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.

You can replace "xlsx" with "xls" if you want.

struts.xml:

        
            ${excelContentType}
            excelStream
            contentDisposition
            1024
        
    

(add semicolons and stuff to translate to valid Java)