What's the best way to check if a String represents an integer in Java?

Question

I normally use the following idiom to check if a String can be converted to an integer.

public boolean isInteger( String input ) {
    try {
        Integer.         


        

Answer 1

This is a Java 8 variation of Jonas Klemming answer:

public static boolean isInteger(String str) {
    return str != null && str.length() > 0 &&
         IntStream.range(0, str.length()).allMatch(i -> i == 0 && (str.charAt(i) == '-' || str.charAt(i) == '+')
                  || Character.isDigit(str.charAt(i)));
}

Test code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
    Arrays.asList("1231231", "-1232312312", "+12313123131", "qwqe123123211", "2", "0000000001111", "", "123-", "++123",
            "123-23", null, "+-123").forEach(s -> {
        System.out.printf("%15s %s%n", s, isInteger(s));
    });
}

Results of the test code:

        1231231 true
    -1232312312 true
   +12313123131 true
  qwqe123123211 false
              2 true
  0000000001111 true
                false
           123- false
          ++123 false
         123-23 false
           null false
          +-123 false