Calling equals on string literal

Question

I just was tidying my code a bit and there was this piece:

String saving = getValue();
if(saving != null && saving.equals(\"true\")){
   // do someth         


        

Answer 1

if("true".equals(saving)){
   // do something
}

This is very safe and good practice. String "true" will never be null. So you will never compare your String to null. This piece of code is perfectly fine