Apache POI Workbook throws java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

Question

I am trying to instantiate a Workbook with this code:

Workbook workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(new File(excelWorkbookFilePath));

I do it this way because the workbook can either be .xlsx or .xls . However, it ends up throwing this error:

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.poi.POIXMLException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at org.apache.poi.POIXMLFactory.createDocumentPart(POIXMLFactory.java:65)
    at org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocumentPart.read(POIXMLDocumentPart.java:601)
    at org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocument.load(POIXMLDocument.java:174)
    at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook.<init>(XSSFWorkbook.java:249)
    at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:293)
    at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:252)
    at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:231)
    at com.iconectiv.handle.ExcelHandle.<init>(ExcelHandle.java:43)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFFactory.createDocumentPart(XSSFFactory.java:56)
    at org.apache.poi.POIXMLFactory.createDocumentPart(POIXMLFactory.java:62)
    ... 9 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlOptions.setLoadEntityBytesLimit(I)Lorg/apache/xmlbeans/XmlOptions;
    at org.apache.poi.POIXMLTypeLoader.<clinit>(POIXMLTypeLoader.java:50)
    at org.apache.poi.xssf.model.ThemesTable.<init>(ThemesTable.java:85)
    ... 15 more

I did some research and found out that InvocationTargetException is not the real exception, so I tried to catch it with this catch statement:

} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
    e.getCause().printStackTrace();
}

However, I get an error in Eclipse saying that I can't catch that as it is never thrown from anything. Why am I getting this error? Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance!

Note: I am using Apache POI 3.14.

Answer 1

The actual error getting thrown is NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlOptions.setLoadEntityBytesLimit(I)Lorg/apache/xmlbeans/XmlOptions;

Possibility you don't have xmlbean jar in your class path or you might have multiple version of jars

Answer 2

You can instantiate the workbook separately for .xls and .xlsx extension based on the file name:

Workbook wb = null;
    if (fileName.endsWith(".xlsx")) {
        wb = new XSSFWorkbook(in);
    }else{
        fs = new POIFSFileSystem(in);
        wb = (Workbook) new HSSFWorkbook(fs);   
    } 

Answer 3

I have updated the pom with same version. Earlier I have different version 3.9.0 for poi-ooxml and 4.0 for poi

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
                <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
                <version>4.1.0</version>
            </dependency>
            <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi-ooxml -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
                <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
                <version>4.1.0</version>
            </dependency>

It worked for me