Excel VBA function to Java poi

Question

I'm new to java so please bear with me. I know java apache poi has the following functions built in but I'm a little lost as to how to use it:

1) code_col = WorksheetFunction.Match("Code", sheet.Range("1:1"), 0)

2) count = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(ref_sheet.Range("A:A"), payee)

3) lr = sheet.Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Rows.count

If you could provide example of how the VBA code converts to its java apache poi equivalent it would be a great help.
So Im basically converting a VBA module to java. And I use the apache poi library. However, those 3 above lines of code I have difficulty converting to its java equivalent

Answer 1

As said in my comment already, this question cannot be answered that general.

Apache poi is made for creating files for Microsoft Office . So apache poi is able creating Excel files having the functions MATCH and COUNTIF stored in formulas in cells. It is also able to evaluate those formulas if it has access to all of the cells which are referenced in those formulas.

So for a concrete example, having a MSExcelWithVBA.xlsm like this:

and VBA code like this:

Sub test()
 Set this_sheet = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
 code_col = WorksheetFunction.Match("Code", this_sheet.Range("1:1"), 0)
 Debug.Print "code_col: " & code_col
 payee = "b"
 payee_count = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(this_sheet.Range("A:A"), payee)
 Debug.Print "payee_count: " & payee_count
 count_rows_in_region = this_sheet.Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
 Debug.Print "count_rows_in_region: " & count_rows_in_region
End Sub

Then this VBA code prints to the immediate window:

code_col: 4
payee_count: 3
count_rows_in_region: 9

With the same MSExcelWithVBA.xlsm , a Java code like this:

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.ss.formula.WorkbookEvaluator;
import org.apache.poi.ss.formula.eval.*;

public class ExcelEvaluateSomeFunctions{

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  Workbook workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(new FileInputStream("MSExcelWithVBA.xlsm"));
  Sheet this_sheet = workbook.getSheet("Sheet1");
  CreationHelper helper = workbook.getCreationHelper();

  XSSFFormulaEvaluator formulaevaluator = (XSSFFormulaEvaluator)helper.createFormulaEvaluator();
  WorkbookEvaluator workbookevaluator = formulaevaluator._getWorkbookEvaluator();
  ValueEval valueeval = null;

  //code_col = WorksheetFunction.Match("Code", this_sheet.Range("1:1"), 0)
  double code_col = Double.NaN;
  valueeval = workbookevaluator.evaluate("MATCH(\"Code\", " + this_sheet.getSheetName() + "!1:1, 0)", null);
  if (valueeval instanceof NumberEval) {
   code_col = ((NumberEval)valueeval).getNumberValue();
  }
  System.out.println("code_col: " + code_col);

  //payee_count = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(this_sheet.Range("A:A"), payee)
  String payee = "b";
  double payee_count = Double.NaN;
  valueeval = workbookevaluator.evaluate("COUNTIF(" + this_sheet.getSheetName() + "!A:A, \"" + payee + "\")", null);
  if (valueeval instanceof NumberEval) {
   payee_count = ((NumberEval)valueeval).getNumberValue();
  }
  System.out.println("payee_count: " + payee_count);

  //count_rows_in_region = this_sheet.Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
  //this is not possible since apache poi does not know the concept of CurrentRegion
  //best you could do:
  int count_rows_in_sheet = this_sheet.getLastRowNum()+1;
  System.out.println("count_rows_in_sheet: " + count_rows_in_sheet);

  workbook.close();
 }  
}

prints to System.out :

code_col: 4.0
payee_count: 3.0
count_rows_in_sheet: 9