StringUtils.isBlank() vs String.isEmpty()

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StringUtils.isBlank() checks that each character of the string is a whitespace character (or that the string is empty or that it’s null). This is totally different than just checking if the string is empty.

From the linked documentation:

Checks if a String is whitespace, empty (“”) or null.

 StringUtils.isBlank(null)      = true
 StringUtils.isBlank("")        = true  
 StringUtils.isBlank(" ")       = true  
 StringUtils.isBlank("bob")     = false  
 StringUtils.isBlank("  bob  ") = false

For comparison StringUtils.isEmpty:

 StringUtils.isEmpty(null)      = true
 StringUtils.isEmpty("")        = true  
 StringUtils.isEmpty(" ")       = false  
 StringUtils.isEmpty("bob")     = false  
 StringUtils.isEmpty("  bob  ") = false

Warning: In java.lang.String.isBlank() and java.lang.String.isEmpty() work the same except they don’t return true for null.

java.lang.String.isBlank() (since Java 11)

java.lang.String.isEmpty()

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