Re: [PATCH][LANG] StringUtils.trimNull(String)

[Dave . Derry]

One other thing,

I think that it would be very counter-intuitive to have a non-null String
(or anything else for that matter) suddenly become null.

String result = someMethod();
if( result != null  )
{
      result = result.trim();
      if( result.length() > 10 )                           //
NullPointerException!!!!


Dave Derry





                                                                                       
                                               
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Hi,

I'm just a lurker here, but my preference would be to return an empty
string rather than null when the string consists of just whitespace. I find
it to be annoying to always have to check for null. In fact, I very rarely
initialize a String to null, but generally initialize to "".

Just my 2 cents,
Dave Derry










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