@johnbiiibs/cds-excel-uploader

This is a personal project, hence there is no offical support. Feel free to use it though, and open issues and I will try my best to fix any. Cheers!

This package aims to provide utility middlewares / handlers to simplify the process of handling Excel (XLSX) uploads in the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP). It takes in an Excel file then parses it into a JSON Object.

This package is built on top of SheetJS.

Install

npm i @johnbiiibs/cds-excel-uploader

Usage

The package comes with two (2) middleware utility functions: one as a CAP CDS Handler, and another as an Express Middleware.

CAP Handler

This method is inspired by the following blog on community.sap.com. Please check out the original blog: Upload data from excel in CAP (Node.js)

Start by projecting the ExcelUpload entity from the ExcelUploadService. This entity is a Singleton entity (@odata.singleton).

// service.cds
using { ExcelUploadService } from '@johnbiiibs/cds-excel-uploader';

service MyService {
    entity ExcelUpload as projection on ExcelUploadService.ExcelUpload;
}

Then get the parseExcel utility function from the CDS Middleware, and attach it to the entity.

// service.js

const { cds: middleware } = require("@johnbiiibs/cds-excel-uploader");
const { parseExcel } = middleware;

module.exports = async srv => {
    const { ExcelUpload } = srv.entities;

    // handler for the excel file
    srv.on("PUT", ExcelUpload, parseExcel());

    // handler for the parsed excel data
    srv.on("PUT", ExcelUpload, async (req, next) => {
        // 'req.data.fileData' contains the excel data
    });
};

Sample UI5 file uploader for this implementation.

// FileUploader.fragment.xml (UI5)

<u:FileUploader
    id="uploader"
    name="myFileUpload"
    uploadUrl="/srv-api/excel-upload-srv/ExcelUpload/file"
    width="100%"
    tooltip="Upload your file to the local server"
    sendXHR="true"
    useMultipart="false"
    uploadStart="handleUploadStart"
    uploadComplete="handleUploadComplete"
    httpRequestMethod="Put"
/>

Express Middleware

This middleware focuses integration through the server.js file as an Express.js Middleware.

This method has a dependency on the express-fileupload package.

// server.js
const fileUpload = require("express-fileupload");
const { express: middleware } = require("@johnbiiibs/cds-excel-uploader");
const { parseExcel } = middleware;

cds.on("bootstrap", (app) => {
    app.post("/upload", fileUpload(), parseExcel(), (req, res, next) => {
        // 'req.fileData' contains the excel data
        res.json(req.fileData);
    });
});

Sample UI5 file uploader for this implementation.

// FileUploader.fragment.xml (UI5)

<u:FileUploader
    id="uploader"
    name="myFileUpload"
    uploadUrl="/upload"
    width="100%"
    tooltip="Upload your file to the local server"
    sendXHR="true"
    fileType="xls,xlsx"
    uploadComplete="handleUploadComplete"
/>

Parsing Options

As mentioned, this package is heavily dependent on SheetJS, particularly the XLSX.utils.sheet_to_json utility function.

As such, its options argument can also be applied to the parseExcel method. By default, the package uses this configuration:

const options = {
    cellText: true,
    cellDates: true,
    dateNF: 'dd"."mm"."yyyy',
    rawNumbers: false,
    defval: ""
}

Sample CAP Implementation

// Same code as the sample above...

// Sample options.
// This would overwrite the default.
const options = {
    cellDates: false,
    rawNumbers: true,
    defval: "X"
}

// handler for the excel file
srv.on("PUT", ExcelUpload, parseExcel(options));

Sample Express Implementation

// Same code as the sample above...

// Sample options.
// This would overwrite the default.
const options = {
    cellDates: false,
    rawNumbers: true,
    defval: "X"
}

cds.on("bootstrap", (app) => {
    app.post("/upload", fileUpload(), parseExcel(options), (req, res, next) => {
        // 'req.fileData' contains the excel data
        res.json(req.fileData);
    });
});

Support

Please use the GitHub bug tracking system to post questions or to report bugs.