I've generated a line chart using Apache POI. I need to change the default colors I got in the chart. Can I use RGB codes to define specific colors to each line?
My code is as follows.
Drawing drawing = sheet4.createDrawingPatriarch();
ClientAnchor anchor = drawing.createAnchor(0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 17, 22);
Chart chart = drawing.createChart(anchor);
ChartLegend legend = chart.getOrCreateLegend();
legend.setPosition(LegendPosition.RIGHT);
LineChartData data = chart.getChartDataFactory().createLineChartData();
ChartAxis bottomAxis = chart.getChartAxisFactory().createCategoryAxis(AxisPosition.BOTTOM);
ValueAxis leftAxis = chart.getChartAxisFactory().createValueAxis(AxisPosition.LEFT);
leftAxis.setCrosses(AxisCrosses.AUTO_ZERO);
ChartDataSource<Number> xs = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet1, new CellRangeAddress(1, 380, 0, 0));
ChartDataSource<Number> ys1 = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet1, new CellRangeAddress(1, 380, 1, 1));
ChartDataSource<Number> ys2 = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet1, new CellRangeAddress(1, 380, 3, 3));
ChartDataSource<Number> ys3 = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet1, new CellRangeAddress(1, 380, 4, 4));
ChartDataSource<Number> ys4 = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet1, new CellRangeAddress(1, 380, 8, 8));
LineChartSeries series1 = data.addSeries(xs, ys1);
series1.setTitle("Value 1");
LineChartSeries series2 = data.addSeries(xs, ys2);
series2.setTitle("Value 2");
LineChartSeries series3 = data.addSeries(xs, ys3);
series3.setTitle("Value 3");
LineChartSeries series4 = data.addSeries(xs, ys4);
series4.setTitle("Value 4");
chart.plot(data, bottomAxis, leftAxis);
XSSFChart xssfChart = (XSSFChart) chart;
CTPlotArea plotArea = xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea();
plotArea.getLineChartArray()[0].getSmooth();
CTBoolean ctBool = CTBoolean.Factory.newInstance();
ctBool.setVal(false);
plotArea.getLineChartArray()[0].setSmooth(ctBool);
for (CTLineSer ser : plotArea.getLineChartArray()[0].getSerArray()) {
ser.setSmooth(ctBool);
}
I am always a friend of complete examples. Then others can reproducing this and don't need guess how the Excel
sheet might look like.
The following complete example does creating a new Excel
workbook in Office Open XML format (*.xlsx
) having a sheet containing some example data and the line chart.
First code part creates a line chart how apache poi
version 3.17
creates it per default.
Then in second code part, I do customizing the chart. The code parts are commented to show what they shall do. After that customizing the chart also is OpenOffice
/ Libreoffice
Calc
compatible. The apache poi
default charts are not OpenOffice
/ Libreoffice
Calc
compatible. At least up to version 3.17
.
For customizing one needs knowledge about the internal low level objects apache poi
uses as basic objects. Those are contained in ooxml-schemas-1.3.jar . Unfortunately there is not more a API
doc public available. So one must download ooxml-schemas-1.3-sources.jar
and then do javadoc
one's own to get a documentation.
Also one should know that files in Office Open XML format (*.xlsx
) simply are ZIP
archives. So one can unzip them and have a look at /xl/charts/chart1.xml
. When one does this after apache poi
has created the chart and do comparing that XML with the XML after re-saving after done the wanted changings in Excel
, then one will see the needed XML changings.
Example:
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.charts.*;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.ss.util.CellRangeAddress;
import org.apache.poi.util.Units;
public class CreateExcelLineChartAndCustomize {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Workbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook();
Sheet sheet = wb.createSheet("linechart");
final int NUM_OF_ROWS = 100;
final int NUM_OF_COLUMNS = 5;
// create some data
Row row;
Cell cell;
String[] headings = new String []{"x", "sin(x)", "cos(x)", "random", "random/x"};
for (int rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < 1; rowIndex++) {
row = sheet.createRow(rowIndex);
for (int colIndex = 0; colIndex < NUM_OF_COLUMNS; colIndex++) {
cell = row.createCell(colIndex);
cell.setCellValue(headings[colIndex]);
}
}
for (int rowIndex = 1; rowIndex < NUM_OF_ROWS; rowIndex++) {
row = sheet.createRow(rowIndex);
for (int colIndex = 0; colIndex < NUM_OF_COLUMNS; colIndex++) {
cell = row.createCell(colIndex);
switch (colIndex) {
case 0:
cell.setCellValue(rowIndex/10d);
break;
case 1:
cell.setCellFormula("SIN(A" + (rowIndex+1) + ")");
break;
case 2:
cell.setCellFormula("COS(A" + (rowIndex+1) + ")");
break;
case 3:
cell.setCellFormula("RAND()");
break;
case 4:
cell.setCellFormula("-D"+(rowIndex+1));
break;
default:
}
}
}
// create default chart
Drawing<?> drawing = sheet.createDrawingPatriarch();
ClientAnchor anchor = drawing.createAnchor(0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 1, 15, 21);
Chart chart = drawing.createChart(anchor);
ChartLegend legend = chart.getOrCreateLegend();
legend.setPosition(LegendPosition.RIGHT);
if (chart instanceof XSSFChart) ((XSSFChart)chart).setTitleText("Some lines");
LineChartData data = chart.getChartDataFactory().createLineChartData();
ChartAxis bottomAxis = chart.getChartAxisFactory().createCategoryAxis(AxisPosition.BOTTOM);
ValueAxis leftAxis = chart.getChartAxisFactory().createValueAxis(AxisPosition.LEFT);
leftAxis.setCrosses(AxisCrosses.AUTO_ZERO);
ChartDataSource<Number> xs = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet, new CellRangeAddress(1, 99, 0, 0));
ChartDataSource<Number> ys1 = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet, new CellRangeAddress(1, 99, 1, 1));
ChartDataSource<Number> ys2 = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet, new CellRangeAddress(1, 99, 2, 2));
ChartDataSource<Number> ys3 = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet, new CellRangeAddress(1, 99, 3, 3));
ChartDataSource<Number> ys4 = DataSources.fromNumericCellRange(sheet, new CellRangeAddress(1, 99, 4, 4));
LineChartSeries series1 = data.addSeries(xs, ys1);
series1.setTitle("Value 1");
LineChartSeries series2 = data.addSeries(xs, ys2);
series2.setTitle("Value 2");
LineChartSeries series3 = data.addSeries(xs, ys3);
series3.setTitle("Value 3");
LineChartSeries series4 = data.addSeries(xs, ys4);
series4.setTitle("Value 4");
chart.plot(data, bottomAxis, leftAxis);
// customize the chart, this also makes it OpenOffice/Libreoffice Calc compatible
if (chart instanceof XSSFChart) {
XSSFChart xssfChart = (XSSFChart)chart;
// do not auto delete the title
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getAutoTitleDeleted() == null) xssfChart.getCTChart().addNewAutoTitleDeleted();
xssfChart.getCTChart().getAutoTitleDeleted().setVal(false);
// plot area background and border line
if (xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr() == null) xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().addNewSpPr();
if (xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getSolidFill() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().addNewSolidFill();
if (xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getSolidFill().addNewSrgbClr();
xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr().setVal(new byte[]{(byte)255,(byte)255,(byte)255});
if (xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getLn() == null) xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().addNewLn();
xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getLn().setW(Units.pixelToEMU(1));
if (xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getLn().addNewSolidFill();
if (xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().addNewSrgbClr();
xssfChart.getCTChartSpace().getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr().setVal(new byte[]{(byte)0,(byte)0,(byte)0});
// line style of cat axis
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).addNewSpPr();
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr().addNewLn();
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().setW(Units.pixelToEMU(1));
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().addNewSolidFill();
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().addNewSrgbClr();
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getCatAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr()
.setVal(new byte[]{(byte)0,(byte)0,(byte)0});
//line style of val axis
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).addNewSpPr();
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr().addNewLn();
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().setW(Units.pixelToEMU(1));
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().addNewSolidFill();
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().addNewSrgbClr();
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getValAxArray(0).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr()
.setVal(new byte[]{(byte)0,(byte)0,(byte)0});
// line style of the series
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSpPr() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).addNewSpPr();
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSpPr().getLn() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSpPr().addNewLn();
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i)
.getSpPr().getLn().setW(Units.pixelToEMU(3));
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSpPr().getLn().addNewSolidFill();
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().addNewSrgbClr();
}
// first series red
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(0)
.getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr().setVal(new byte[]{(byte)255,(byte)0,(byte)0});
// second series green
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(1)
.getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr().setVal(new byte[]{(byte)0,(byte)255,(byte)0});
// third series blue
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(2)
.getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr().setVal(new byte[]{(byte)0,(byte)0,(byte)255});
// fourth series yellow
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(3)
.getSpPr().getLn().getSolidFill().getSrgbClr().setVal(new byte[]{(byte)255,(byte)255,(byte)0});
// set line data series to not smooth the line
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSmooth() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).addNewSmooth();
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getSmooth().setVal(false);
}
// set or unset tick marks
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getMarker() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).addNewMarker();
if (xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getMarker().getSymbol() == null)
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(i).getMarker().addNewSymbol();
}
// no tick marks
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(0).getMarker().getSymbol().setVal(
org.openxmlformats.schemas.drawingml.x2006.chart.STMarkerStyle.NONE);
// diamond tick marks
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(1).getMarker().getSymbol().setVal(
org.openxmlformats.schemas.drawingml.x2006.chart.STMarkerStyle.DIAMOND);
// auto tick marks = marker set but no symbol given
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(2).getMarker().unsetSymbol();
// no tick marks
xssfChart.getCTChart().getPlotArea().getLineChartArray(0).getSerArray(3).getMarker().getSymbol().setVal(
org.openxmlformats.schemas.drawingml.x2006.chart.STMarkerStyle.NONE);
}
wb.write(new FileOutputStream("CreateExcelLineChartAndCustomize.xlsx"));
wb.close();
}
}
Result: