I have an existing base64 encoding of an Excel file from this xml file and I want to save that data (fileContent) to a physical excel file, but I am stuck doing it. I've seen some tutorials on how to encode it, but I couldn't get it to work on saving that data into a file that can be opened with Microsoft Excel. The solutions I tried prints all the data as excel entries (see attached image). I have asked a related question here, but I did not know that the encoded data is an actual .xls file.
Here's the code that does that:
package parsing;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class SaxSample {
public static void main(String argv[]) {
try {
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() {
StringBuilder value;
@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName,
String qName, Attributes attributes)
throws SAXException {
value = new StringBuilder();
}
@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName,
String qName) throws SAXException {
if ("fileContent".equalsIgnoreCase(qName)) {
FileInputStream fis = null;
try {
String decodedValue = new String(DatatypeConverter.parseBase64Binary(value.toString()));
value.append(decodedValue);
// The name of the file to create.
String fileName = "temp.xls";
File file = new File(fileName);
fis = new FileInputStream(file);
BufferedInputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
byte[] fileBytes = new byte[(int) file.length()];
inputStream.read(fileBytes);
inputStream.close();
System.out.println(qName + " = " + decodedValue);
} catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(SaxSample.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(SaxSample.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
} finally {
try {
fis.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(SaxSample.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
} else {
System.out.println(qName + " = " + value);
}
value = new StringBuilder();
}
@Override
public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length)
throws SAXException {
value.append(new String(ch, start, length));
}
};
saxParser.parse(new File("src/parsing/CON729.xml"), handler);
} catch (ParserConfigurationException | SAXException | IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}