How to create dynamic Table in the Word Document using Java

Question

I have a scenario where i need to create a word document with Header , Footer with Table . And the Table data will come dynamically from the Front End. sometimes it may have to create more tables based on the input. can somebody help me. Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

There are multiple libraries doing this,Apache Poi is one of them.

Sample code

   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument();

        XWPFTable tableOne = document.createTable();
        XWPFTableRow tableOneRowOne = tableOne.getRow(0);
        tableOneRowOne.getCell(0).setText("Header1");
        tableOneRowOne.addNewTableCell().setText("header2");
        XWPFTableRow tableOneRowTwo = tableOne.createRow();
        tableOneRowTwo.getCell(0).setText("Data1");
        tableOneRowTwo.getCell(1).setText("Data2");
        FileOutputStream outStream = new FileOutputStream("test.doc");
        document.write(outStream);
        outStream.close();
    }

Sample tutorial http://tkgospodinov.com/writing-microsoft-word-documents-in-java-with-apache-poi-part-2-creating-tables/

Pom.xml

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
            <version>3.9</version>
        </dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
    <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
    <version>3.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>

Imports

import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument; import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFTable; import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFTableRow;