org.springframework.web.servlet.view.document
Class AbstractJExcelView

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport
      org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport
          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView
              org.springframework.web.servlet.view.document.AbstractJExcelView

All Implemented Interfaces:

BeanNameAware, ApplicationContextAware, ServletContextAware, View

public abstract class AbstractJExcelView
extends AbstractView

Convenient superclass for Excel document views.

This class uses the JExcelAPI instead of POI. More information on JExcelAPI can be found on their website.

Properties:

• url (optional): The url of an existing Excel document to pick as a starting point. It is done without localization part nor the .xls extension.

The file will be searched with locations in the following order:

• [url]_[language]_[country].xls
• [url]_[language].xls
• [url].xls

For working with the workbook in the subclass, see Java Excel API site

As an example, you can try this snippet:

 protected void buildExcelDocument(Map model, WritableWorkbook workbook, HttpServletRequest request,
                HttpServletResponse response) {
        if (workbook.getNumberOfSheets() == 0) {
                workbook.createSheet("Spring", 0);
        }
 
        WritableSheet sheet = workbook.getSheet("Spring");
        Label label = new Label(0, 0, "This is a nice label");
        sheet.addCell(label);
 }

The use of this view is close to the AbstractExcelView class, just using the JExcel API instead of the Apache POI API.

Since:

1.2.5

Author:

Bram Smeets, Alef Arendsen, Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

AbstractExcelView, AbstractPdfView

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView

DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport

logger

Constructor Summary

AbstractJExcelView()
Default Constructor.

Method Summary

protected abstract void	buildExcelDocument(Map model, jxl.write.WritableWorkbook workbook, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) Subclasses must implement this method to create an Excel Workbook document, given the model.
protected boolean	generatesDownloadContent() Return whether this view generates download content (typically binary content like PDF or Excel files).
protected jxl.Workbook	getTemplateSource(String url, HttpServletRequest request) Create the workbook from an existing XLS document.
protected void	renderMergedOutputModel(Map model, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) Renders the Excel view, given the specified model.
void	setUrl(String url) Set the URL of the Excel workbook source, without localization part nor extension.

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView

addStaticAttribute, createRequestContext, createTemporaryOutputStream, exposeModelAsRequestAttributes, getAttributesMap, getBeanName, getContentType, getRequestContextAttribute, getStaticAttributes, prepareResponse, render, setAttributes, setAttributesCSV, setAttributesMap, setBeanName, setContentType, setRequestContextAttribute, toString, writeToResponse

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport

getServletContext, getTempDir, getWebApplicationContext, initApplicationContext, initServletContext, isContextRequired, setServletContext

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport

getApplicationContext, getMessageSourceAccessor, initApplicationContext, requiredContextClass, setApplicationContext

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractJExcelView

public AbstractJExcelView()

Default Constructor. Sets the content type of the view to "application/vnd.ms-excel".

Method Detail

setUrl

public void setUrl(String url)

Set the URL of the Excel workbook source, without localization part nor extension.

generatesDownloadContent

protected boolean generatesDownloadContent()

Description copied from class: AbstractView

Return whether this view generates download content (typically binary content like PDF or Excel files).

The default implementation returns false. Subclasses are encouraged to return true here if they know that they are generating download content that requires temporary caching on the client side, typically via the response OutputStream.

Overrides:

generatesDownloadContent in class AbstractView

See Also:

AbstractView.prepareResponse(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse), ServletResponse.getOutputStream()

renderMergedOutputModel

protected final void renderMergedOutputModel(Map model,
                                             HttpServletRequest request,
                                             HttpServletResponse response)
                                      throws Exception

Renders the Excel view, given the specified model.

Specified by:

renderMergedOutputModel in class AbstractView

Parameters:

model - combined output Map (never null), with dynamic values taking precedence over static attributes

request - current HTTP request

response - current HTTP response

Throws:

Exception - if rendering failed

getTemplateSource

protected jxl.Workbook getTemplateSource(String url,
                                         HttpServletRequest request)
                                  throws Exception

Create the workbook from an existing XLS document.

Parameters:

url - the URL of the Excel template without localization part nor extension

request - current HTTP request

Returns:

the template workbook

Throws:

Exception - in case of failure

buildExcelDocument

protected abstract void buildExcelDocument(Map model,
                                           jxl.write.WritableWorkbook workbook,
                                           HttpServletRequest request,
                                           HttpServletResponse response)
                                    throws Exception

Subclasses must implement this method to create an Excel Workbook document, given the model.

Parameters:

model - the model Map

workbook - the Excel workbook to complete

request - in case we need locale etc. Shouldn't look at attributes.

response - in case we need to set cookies. Shouldn't write to it.

Throws:

Exception - in case of failure