Your InputStream was neither an OLE2 stream, nor an OOXML stream

[manjesh]

I am using Apache Commons to upload a .docx . While uploading, I also want to extract text by using Apache POI libraries.

If I pass the inputstream returned from item.openStream(); from ServletFileUpload to POI API,I get the exception:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Your InputStream was neither an OLE2 stream, nor an OOXM

public static String docx2text(InputStream is) throws Exception {
return ExtractorFactory.createExtractor(is).getText();
}

my application server does not allow me to write to file, so I cannot use FileInputStream.

how do I handle this? I am uploading valid .docx file.There are no issues with uploading file.

-regards
Ma

[Tolls]

Can you show the code that calls this, presumably the one that gets hold of the input stream?

[manjesh]

hi, this is the servlet code . I reff apache commons file upload link http://commons.apache.org/proper/com...streaming.html

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
RequestDispatcher rd;
try {
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload();
response.setContentType("text/plain");
FileItemIterator iterator = upload.getItemIterator(request);
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
FileItemStream item = iterator.next();
InputStream stream = item.openStream();

if (item.isFormField()) {
System.out.println("Got a form field: "
+ item.getFieldName());
} else {
String plainText=docx2text(stream);// throws Exception: Your InputStream was neither an OLE2 stream, nor an OOXML stream
byte data[]=IOUtils.toByteArray(stream);
//Save the data byte array to database
System.out.println("Document saved successfuly");
rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("/html/uploadhelper.jsp");
rd.forward(request, response);
}
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("/jsp/error/error.jsp");
rd.forward(request, response);
}
}

public static String docx2text(InputStream is) throws Exception {
return ExtractorFactory.createExtractor(is).getText();
}

[Tolls]

Check the content type of the thing you think is the excel file data.
Failing that, also take a look at what is actually being sent to the server from your browser.