I must admit to playing a bit of devil's advocate here ;-) with my laundry
list of sizeable kind of objects but I am sure you get my point: As soon as
we add a method like this, the we will get requests for adding more to it
release after release. I'm not against it, but it make you wonder about
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Hi Gary,
Yes, you can make the argument that the user might expect *every* class
with a length(), size() or isEmpty() method to be covered by the
implementation, but IMO as long as the Javadoc clearly states what is
supported and what is not, then it's better to have at least a partial
implementat
If we open that Pandora's box, then I want to add:
- File, empty if length is 0
- Path, empty if name length is 0
- Buffer, what?
- StringBuffer
- StringBuilder
- java.sql.Clob
- java.sql.Lob
- The content of an AtomicReference
- ZipFile
- on and on for anything that has a "size()" or "length" or
Hello Alexander,
Am Fr., 17. Aug. 2018 um 15:09 Uhr schrieb Alexander Tsvetkov <
alexander.tsvetkov...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Benedikt,
>
> Yes, ObjectUtils.isEmpty(null) would return true. You can review the pull
> request (https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/342) if you'd like to
> see the en
Hi Benedikt,
Yes, ObjectUtils.isEmpty(null) would return true. You can review the pull
request (https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/342) if you'd like to
see the entire implementation in its current state.
Thanks and best regards,
Alexander
2018-08-17 15:41 GMT+03:00 Benedikt Ritter :
>
Hello Alexander,
welcome to the mailing list and thanks for your contribution.
Am Fr., 17. Aug. 2018 um 10:43 Uhr schrieb Alexander Tsvetkov <
alexander.tsvetkov...@gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> First of all, apologies if I have messed something up - this is my first
> attempt at contributing to Apa
Hi all,
First of all, apologies if I have messed something up - this is my first
attempt at contributing to Apache.
With that said, I'd like to propose adding two new methods to Commons
Lang's ObjectUtils class:
- isEmpty()
- isNotEmpty()
These would check whether the object is empty (or not
