Best way to verify string is empty or null

Question

i am sure this must have been asked before in different ways - as isEmptyOrNull is so common yet people implement it differently. but i have below curious query in terms of

Answer 1

Haven't seen any fully-native solutions, so here's one:

return str == null || str.chars().allMatch(Character::isWhitespace);

Basically, use the native Character.isWhitespace() function. From there, you can achieve different levels of optimization, depending on how much it matters (I can assure you that in 99.99999% of use cases, no further optimization is necessary):

return str == null || str.length() == 0 || str.chars().allMatch(Character::isWhitespace);

Or, to be really optimal (but hecka ugly):

int len;
if (str == null || (len = str.length()) == 0) return true;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
  if (!Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(i))) return false;
}
return true;

One thing I like to do:

Optional notBlank(String s) {
  return s == null || s.chars().allMatch(Character::isWhitepace))
    ? Optional.empty()
    : Optional.of(s);
}

...

notBlank(myStr).orElse("some default")