Excelreader-call

Definition

Many IT applications, within their business process, need to read an Excel file. Gvvcl-excelreader plug-in helps IT organizations integrating applications that use Excel format to execute their business. Gvvcl-excelreader plug-in is compatible with all Excel formats up to version 2003, and it is very simple to configure. It receives in input a binary stream containing the Excel file, and returns in output a corresponding XML structure. At the output of Gvvcl-excelreader plug-in is possible to apply a ChangeGvBufferNode operation (with OGNL script or an XSL transformation) to retrieve all interested data.

GreenVulcano^® ESB provides two different tools, GV Console^® and VulCon^®, to configure all supported plug-ins in GV services.

VulCon / GV Console Configuration

excelreader-call is the operation that must be configured into VulCon^® or Template:GVConsole System section, to convert an Excel file in GVBuffer.object field, in an XML document. In order to add an operation excelreader-call you must define the following fields:

• class: it.greenvulcano.gvesb.virtual.excel.reader.GVExcelReaderCallOperation (java class that manage excelReader invocation).
• name: this field identify the operation name that you will use in service definition.
• onlyData: is a boolean field, it enabled in output cell formatting informations. If true, insert in the XML document also the cell formatting informations.

 Default to true.

• type: call

The following example shows the configuration generated from VulCon^® or Template:GVConsole when you configure an excelReader operation:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GVSystems name="SYSTEMS" type="module">
    <Systems>
        <Description>This section contains a list of all systems connected to GreenVulcano ESB</Description>
        <System id-system="system-name" system-activation="on">
            <Channel id-channel="CHANNEL_NAME">
                <excelreader-call class="it.greenvulcano.gvesb.virtual.excel.reader.GVExcelReaderCallOperation"
                    name="ReadExcelInput" type="call" onlyData="true"/>
            </Channel>    
        </System>
    </Systems>
</GVSystems>

To use an excelreader-call in a GreenVulcano^® ESB service, you need to perfom the following steps:

File:Service-GVvcl-excelGvConsole.png

GV Console service excel-reader configuration

• In GV Console^® Service section select the services that you want to modify or, alternatively, you can create a new Services
• On flow tag, click the add operation node button and select "insert before"
• On the list of GreenVulcano node select GvOperationNode
• On the template that appear, select from drop down list, input field, next-node-id and as operation-name the operation configured in the system. Fill in fields id and output.
• Click save button and terminate editing
• Reload configuration from GV Console^®

At this point you have configured a service with an excelreader operation.

Example

This example shows an XML document generated by a simple Excel sheet (without cols and rows grouping). Given an Excel sheet with the following structure:

ID1	ID2	ID3	ID4	ID5	ID6	ID7
23	23232	23	23333	1	2	3
24	24444	23	23332	1	2	3

excelreader-call generates the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<workbook>
    <sheet number="0">
        <name><![CDATA[Foglio1]]></name>
        <row number="0">
            <col number="0">
                <data><![CDATA[ID1]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="1">
                <data><![CDATA[ID2]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="2">
                <data><![CDATA[ID3]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="3">
                <data><![CDATA[ID4]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="4">
                <data><![CDATA[ID5]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="5">
                <data><![CDATA[ID6]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="6">
                <data><![CDATA[ID7]]></data>
            </col>
        </row>
        <row number="1">
            <col number="0">
                <data><![CDATA[23]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="1">
                <data><![CDATA[23232]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="2">
                <data><![CDATA[23]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="3">
                <data><![CDATA[711]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="4">
                <data><![CDATA[1]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="5">
                <data><![CDATA[1]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="6">
                <data><![CDATA[1]]></data>
            </col>
        </row>
        <row number="2">
            <col number="0">
                <data><![CDATA[23]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="1">
                <data><![CDATA[711]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="2">
                <data><![CDATA[23]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="3">
                <data><![CDATA[23232]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="4">
                <data><![CDATA[1]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="5">
                <data><![CDATA[1]]></data>
            </col>
            <col number="6">
                <data><![CDATA[1]]></data>
            </col>
        </row>
    </sheet>
</workbook>

With a ChangeGvBufferNode is possible parsing XML and retrieve any tag and value.