RFR: JDK-8200436 - String::isBlank

[Jonathan Bluett-Duncan]

How about String.isWhitespaceOrEmpty? I think that accurately describes the
method.

Cheers,
Jonathan

On 15 May 2018 at 19:15, Jeremy Manson <jeremymanson at google.com> wrote:

> Seems to me that consistency matters here: for Character to call it
> whitespace and for String to call it blank is a little weird.
>
> Is there a well-understood definition of "blank string", or did this just
> seem like a good name choice?
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:14 PM Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>
> > Hi Louis,
> > I prefer isBlank to isWhitespace, there is a notion of all characters in
> > isBlank that you do not have with isWhitespace.
> >
> > Rémi
> >
> > ----- Mail original -----
> > > De: "Louis Wasserman" <lowasser at google.com>
> > > À: "Xueming Shen" <xueming.shen at oracle.com>
> > > Cc: "core-libs-dev" <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> > > Envoyé: Lundi 14 Mai 2018 22:15:50
> > > Objet: Re: RFR: JDK-8200436 - String::isBlank
> >
> > > It's not clear to me that "isBlank" is a good name for this method.
> > > "isWhitespace" might be more appropriate, perhaps.
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:48 PM Xueming Shen <xueming.shen at oracle.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> +1
> > >>
> > >> On 5/14/18, 8:25 AM, Jim Laskey wrote:
> > >> > New string instance method that returns true if the string is empty
> or
> > >> contains only white space, where white space is defined as any
> codepoint
> > >> returns true when passed to Character::isWhitespace.
> > >> >
> > >> > webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8200436/webrev/index.
> html
> > >> > jbs: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200436
> > >> > csr: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200437
> > >> >
> > >>
> >
>