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Rhino is an ES3+ engine in Java.

SheetJS is a JavaScript library for reading and writing data from spreadsheets.

The "Complete Example" section includes a complete Java command-line tool for reading data from spreadsheets and printing CSV rows.

:::caution pass

Rhino does not support Uint8Array, so NUMBERS files cannot be read or written.

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:::note Tested Deployments

This demo was tested in the following deployments:

OpenJDK	Rhino	Date
22	1.7.14	2024-04-04
21.0.3	1.7.15	2024-05-24
20.0.2	1.7.15	2024-05-25
19.0.2	1.7.15	2024-05-25
18.0.2	1.7.15	2024-05-25
17.0.11	1.7.15	2024-05-25
16.0.1	1.7.15	2024-05-25
15.0.10	1.7.15	2024-05-25
14.0.2	1.7.15	2024-05-25
13.0.14	1.7.15	2024-05-25
12.0.2	1.7.15	2024-05-25
11.0.22	1.7.15	2024-05-25
10.0.2	1.7.15	2024-05-25
9	1.7.15	2024-05-25
1.8.0	1.7.14	2024-04-25

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Integration Details

:::caution pass

Due to code generation errors, optimization must be turned off:

Context context = Context.enter();
context.setOptimizationLevel(-1);

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The SheetJS Standalone scripts can be parsed and evaluated in a Rhino context.

Binary strings can be passed back and forth.

Initialize Rhino

Rhino does not provide a global variable. It can be created:

Context cx = Context.enter();
Scriptable scope = cx.initStandardObjects();

/* Disable optimization */
cx.setOptimizationLevel(-1);

/* Initialize `global` variable */
// highlight-start
String s = "var global = (function(){ return this; }).call(null);";
cx.evaluateString(scope, s, "<cmd>", 1, null);
// highlight-end

Load SheetJS Scripts

The main library can be loaded by reading the scripts from the Java Archive and evaluating in the Rhino context:

/* pull source from JAR */
String s = new Scanner(
  SheetJS.class.getResourceAsStream("/xlsx.full.min.js")
).useDelimiter("\\Z").next();
/* evaluate */
cx.evaluateString(scope, s, "<cmd>", 1, null);

To confirm the library is loaded, XLSX.version can be inspected:

/* get handle to XLSX */
Object XLSX = scope.get("XLSX", scope);
if(XLSX == Scriptable.NOT_FOUND) throw new Exception("XLSX not found");

/* get the version string */
String version = ((NativeObject)XLSX).get("version", scope).toString();
System.out.println("SheetJS version " + version);

Reading Files

A binary string can be generated from a byte array:

  static String read_file(String file) throws IOException {
    /* read file -> array of bytes */
    byte[] b = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(file));

    /* construct binary string */
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for(int i = 0; i < b.length; ++i) sb.append(Character.toString((char)(b[i] < 0 ? b[i] + 256 : b[i])));
    return sb.toString();
  }

This string can be loaded into the JS engine and processed:

  /* options argument */
  String os = "q = {'type':'binary', 'WTF':1};";
  NativeObject o = (NativeObject)cx.evaluateString(scope, os, "<cmd>", 2, null);

  /* set up function arguments */
  String data = read_file(path_to_file);
  Object args[] = {data, o};

  /* call read -> wb workbook */
  NativeObject nXLSX = (NativeObject)XLSX;
  Function readfunc = (Function)XLSX.get("read", scope);
  NativeObject wb = (NativeObject)readfunc.call(cx, scope, nXLSX, args);

wb will be a reference to the JS workbook object.

Complete Example

0. Ensure Java is installed.

1. Create a folder for the project:

mkdir sheetjs-java
cd sheetjs-java

2. Download the Rhino JAR and rename to rhino.jar:

curl -L -o rhino.jar https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/mozilla/rhino/1.7.15/rhino-1.7.15.jar

3. Download the SheetJS Standalone script and the test file. Save both files in the project directory:

• xlsx.full.min.js
• pres.xlsx

{\ curl -LO https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/package/dist/xlsx.full.min.js curl -LO https://docs.sheetjs.com/pres.xlsx}

4. Download SheetJSRhino.zip and unzip

curl -LO https://docs.sheetjs.com/rhino/SheetJSRhino.zip
unzip SheetJSRhino.zip

5. Save the following code to SheetJSRhino.java:

/* sheetjs (C) 2013-present  SheetJS -- https://sheetjs.com */
/* vim: set ts=2: */
import com.sheetjs.SheetJS;
import com.sheetjs.SheetJSFile;
import com.sheetjs.SheetJSSheet;

public class SheetJSRhino {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
    try {
      SheetJS sjs = new SheetJS();

      /* open file */
      SheetJSFile xl = sjs.read_file(args[0]);

      /* get sheetnames */
      String[] sheetnames = xl.get_sheet_names();
      System.err.println(sheetnames[0]);

      /* convert to CSV */
      SheetJSSheet sheet = xl.get_sheet(0);
      String csv = sheet.get_csv();
      System.out.println(csv);
    } catch(Exception e) { throw e; } finally { SheetJS.close(); }
  }
}

6. Assemble SheetJS.jar from the demo code:

javac -cp ".:rhino.jar" SheetJSRhino.java
jar -cf SheetJS.jar SheetJSRhino.class com/sheetjs/*.class xlsx.full.min.js

javac -cp ".;rhino.jar" SheetJSRhino.java
jar -cf SheetJS.jar SheetJSRhino.class com/sheetjs/*.class xlsx.full.min.js

7. Test the program:

java -cp ".:SheetJS.jar:rhino.jar" SheetJSRhino pres.xlsx

java -cp ".;SheetJS.jar;rhino.jar" SheetJSRhino pres.xlsx

If successful, a CSV will be printed to console.