org.apache.poi.ss.formula.eval
Class EvaluationException
java.lang.Object
java.lang.Throwable
java.lang.Exception
org.apache.poi.ss.formula.eval.EvaluationException
- All Implemented Interfaces:
- java.io.Serializable
public final class EvaluationException
- extends java.lang.Exception
This class is used to simplify error handling logic within operator and function
implementations. Note - OperationEval.evaluate() and Function.evaluate()
method signatures do not throw this exception so it cannot propagate outside.
Here is an example coded without EvaluationException, to show how it can help:
public Eval evaluate(Eval[] args, int srcRow, short srcCol) {
// ...
Eval arg0 = args[0];
if(arg0 instanceof ErrorEval) {
return arg0;
}
if(!(arg0 instanceof AreaEval)) {
return ErrorEval.VALUE_INVALID;
}
double temp = 0;
AreaEval area = (AreaEval)arg0;
ValueEval[] values = area.getValues();
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
ValueEval ve = values[i];
if(ve instanceof ErrorEval) {
return ve;
}
if(!(ve instanceof NumericValueEval)) {
return ErrorEval.VALUE_INVALID;
}
temp += ((NumericValueEval)ve).getNumberValue();
}
// ...
}
In this example, if any error is encountered while processing the arguments, an error is
returned immediately. This code is difficult to refactor due to all the points where errors
are returned.
Using EvaluationException allows the error returning code to be consolidated to one
place.
public Eval evaluate(Eval[] args, int srcRow, short srcCol) {
try {
// ...
AreaEval area = getAreaArg(args[0]);
double temp = sumValues(area.getValues());
// ...
} catch (EvaluationException e) {
return e.getErrorEval();
}
}
private static AreaEval getAreaArg(Eval arg0) throws EvaluationException {
if (arg0 instanceof ErrorEval) {
throw new EvaluationException((ErrorEval) arg0);
}
if (arg0 instanceof AreaEval) {
return (AreaEval) arg0;
}
throw EvaluationException.invalidValue();
}
private double sumValues(ValueEval[] values) throws EvaluationException {
double temp = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
ValueEval ve = values[i];
if (ve instanceof ErrorEval) {
throw new EvaluationException((ErrorEval) ve);
}
if (!(ve instanceof NumericValueEval)) {
throw EvaluationException.invalidValue();
}
temp += ((NumericValueEval) ve).getNumberValue();
}
return temp;
}
It is not mandatory to use EvaluationException, doing so might give the following advantages:
- Methods can more easily be extracted, allowing for re-use.
- Type management (typecasting etc) is simpler because error conditions have been separated from
intermediate calculation values.
- Fewer local variables are required. Local variables can have stronger types.
- It is easier to mimic common Excel error handling behaviour (exit upon encountering first
error), because exceptions conveniently propagate up the call stack regardless of execution
points or the number of levels of nested calls.
Note - Only standard evaluation errors are represented by EvaluationException (
i.e. conditions expected to be encountered when evaluating arbitrary Excel formulas). Conditions
that could never occur in an Excel spreadsheet should result in runtime exceptions. Care should
be taken to not translate any POI internal error into an Excel evaluation error code.
- Author:
- Josh Micich
- See Also:
- Serialized Form
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Throwable |
fillInStackTrace, getCause, getLocalizedMessage, getMessage, getStackTrace, initCause, printStackTrace, printStackTrace, printStackTrace, setStackTrace, toString |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait |
EvaluationException
public EvaluationException(ErrorEval errorEval)
invalidValue
public static EvaluationException invalidValue()
- #VALUE! - Wrong type of operand
invalidRef
public static EvaluationException invalidRef()
- #REF! - Illegal or deleted cell reference
numberError
public static EvaluationException numberError()
- #NUM! - Value range overflow
getErrorEval
public ErrorEval getErrorEval()
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