Bug 54954

Summary:	[FEATURE REQUEST] The 'names' ArrayList in HSSFWorkbook should be public
Product:	POI	Reporter:	monzarc
Component:	HSSF	Assignee:	POI Developers List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P2
Version:	3.9-FINAL
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All

Description monzarc 2013-05-12 23:07:10 UTC

So that users can make their own methods based on the names list, e.g. 'deleteAllNames()' or similar.

Comment 1 Nick Burch 2013-05-12 23:47:40 UTC

Access to the raw names list wouldn't help that much - you'd still need to do a lot of modifications at a low level to end up with a valid workbook after that

I'm not sure what you're missing out on by just calling getNumberOfNames and then iterating over that with getName - could you clarify?

Comment 2 Nick Burch 2014-07-24 16:44:45 UTC

Without a strong use case why, this won't be exposed given that a delete case would still need to update records / formulas / etc