I want to load a template word document to add content to and save as new document. I'm working on .doc file.
After a long research I only found solutions for docx :
http://www.smartjava.org/content/create-complex-word-docx-documents-programatically-docx4j
http://www.sambhashanam.com/mail-merge-in-java-for-microsoft-word-document-part-i/
So I want to replace any variable written in this format: $VAR
by its value.
Can I do it with velocity or Apache-poi, what is the best solution for it.
Any help will be appreciated.
Yes, you can do it using Apache-POI. Your variable names must be unique. See the following code
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.CharacterRun;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Paragraph;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Range;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Section;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;
public class HWPFTest {
public static void main(String[] args){
String filePath = "F:\\Sample.doc";
POIFSFileSystem fs = null;
try {
fs = new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream(filePath));
HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(fs);
doc = replaceText(doc, "$VAR", "MyValue1");
saveWord(filePath, doc);
}
catch(FileNotFoundException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static HWPFDocument replaceText(HWPFDocument doc, String findText, String replaceText){
Range r1 = doc.getRange();
for (int i = 0; i < r1.numSections(); ++i ) {
Section s = r1.getSection(i);
for (int x = 0; x < s.numParagraphs(); x++) {
Paragraph p = s.getParagraph(x);
for (int z = 0; z < p.numCharacterRuns(); z++) {
CharacterRun run = p.getCharacterRun(z);
String text = run.text();
if(text.contains(findText)) {
run.replaceText(findText, replaceText);
}
}
}
}
return doc;
}
private static void saveWord(String filePath, HWPFDocument doc) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException{
FileOutputStream out = null;
try{
out = new FileOutputStream(filePath);
doc.write(out);
}
finally{
out.close();
}
}
}
Vikrant,
The code Snippet is given above and in order to work, we need jar mentioned above. Along with that Jar, use/download poi-3.5-FINAL.jar as well.
Hope this will answer your question.