reading XLSB from apache poi

Question

I've read it stated on multiple SO questions that Apache POI 3.16-beta3 has read-only support for xlsb files.

I am using poi 3.17 and cannot find any documentation or examples of this feature. The best I can find is an example of extracting raw text only via XSSFBEventBasedExcelExtractor, but this appears to be quite old (2010?) and I am unsure if this is the referenced capability.

Is there any documentation or examples of using poi to read xlsb files with the read-only parsing alluded to in the comments of this question: Exception reading XLSB File Apache POI java.io.CharConversionException and in an answer to this: Reading data from .xlsb in Clojure by Tim Allison ?

Answer 1

The functionality that Tim was referring to is actually XSSFBEventBasedExcelExtractor, and it was added in Apache POI 3.16. It can be used to extract text-content from the file.

There is currently no functionality to fully read the file content, though.

See also the JavaDoc for this class.