Check whether a string is not null and not empty

Question

How can I check whether a string is not null and not empty?

public void doStuff(String str)
{
    if (str != null && str != \"**here I want to check          


        

Answer 1

I would advise Guava or Apache Commons according to your actual need. Check the different behaviors in my example code:

import com.google.common.base.Strings;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

/**
 * Created by hu0983 on 2016.01.13..
 */
public class StringNotEmptyTesting {
  public static void main(String[] args){
        String a = "  ";
        String b = "";
        String c=null;

    System.out.println("Apache:");
    if(!StringUtils.isNotBlank(a)){
        System.out.println(" a is blank");
    }
    if(!StringUtils.isNotBlank(b)){
        System.out.println(" b is blank");
    }
    if(!StringUtils.isNotBlank(c)){
        System.out.println(" c is blank");
    }
    System.out.println("Google:");

    if(Strings.isNullOrEmpty(Strings.emptyToNull(a))){
        System.out.println(" a is NullOrEmpty");
    }
    if(Strings.isNullOrEmpty(b)){
        System.out.println(" b is NullOrEmpty");
    }
    if(Strings.isNullOrEmpty(c)){
        System.out.println(" c is NullOrEmpty");
    }
  }
}

Result:
Apache:
a is blank
b is blank
c is blank
Google:
b is NullOrEmpty
c is NullOrEmpty