From 7d681ab290c18e65917070542eee3b2504b0594c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sramazzina <sergio.ramazzina@serasoft.it>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:09:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix #3221 Excel Input eats incoming fields, but still passes
 the metadata for them downstream (as if they still exist)

---
 .../hop/pipeline/transforms/excelinput/ExcelInputMeta.java    | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/transforms/excel/src/main/java/org/apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/excelinput/ExcelInputMeta.java b/plugins/transforms/excel/src/main/java/org/apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/excelinput/ExcelInputMeta.java
index c2cfcce33e6..26a152fdf07 100644
--- a/plugins/transforms/excel/src/main/java/org/apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/excelinput/ExcelInputMeta.java
+++ b/plugins/transforms/excel/src/main/java/org/apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/excelinput/ExcelInputMeta.java
@@ -366,6 +366,10 @@ public void getFields(
       IVariables variables,
       IHopMetadataProvider metadataProvider)
       throws HopTransformException {
+
+    // Clean the row if eventually is dirty
+    row.clear();
+
     for (ExcelInputField field : fields) {
       int type = field.getHopType();
       if (type == IValueMeta.TYPE_NONE) {