Best way to verify string is empty or null

Question

i am sure this must have been asked before in different ways - as isEmptyOrNull is so common yet people implement it differently. but i have below curious query in terms of

Answer 1

If you have to test more than one string in the same validation, you can do something like this:

import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.Predicate;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

public class StringHelper {

  public static Boolean hasBlank(String ... strings) {

    Predicate isBlank = s -> s == null || s.trim().isEmpty();

    return Optional
      .ofNullable(strings)
      .map(Stream::of)
      .map(stream -> stream.anyMatch(isBlank))
      .orElse(false);
  }

}

So, you can use this like StringHelper.hasBlank("Hello", null, "", " ") or StringHelper.hasBlank("Hello") in a generic form.