Check whether a string is not null and not empty

Question

How can I check whether a string is not null and not empty?

public void doStuff(String str)
{
    if (str != null && str != \"**here I want to check          


        

Answer 1

To check on if all the string attributes in an object is empty(Instead of using !=null on all the field names following java reflection api approach

private String name1;
private String name2;
private String name3;

public boolean isEmpty()  {

    for (Field field : this.getClass().getDeclaredFields()) {
        try {
            field.setAccessible(true);
            if (field.get(this) != null) {
                return false;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Exception occurred in processing");
        }
    }
    return true;
}

This method would return true if all the String field values are blank,It would return false if any one values is present in the String attributes