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 {
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Answer 1

I have seen a lot of answers here, but most of them are able to determine whether the String is numeric, but they fail checking whether the number is in Integer range...

Therefore I purpose something like this:

public static boolean isInteger(String str) {
    if (str == null || str.isEmpty()) {
        return false;
    }
    try {
        long value = Long.valueOf(str);
        return value >= -2147483648 && value <= 2147483647;
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        return false;
    }
}