Converting a String to int. Set the int to 0 if String is null

Question

I have a function which saves Android data in sqlite but I have to convert the String data to an Integer.

Whenever the S

Answer 1

You can check for NumberFormatException. Integer.parseInt() will throw NumberFormatException for cases:

• String is null
• String is empty ("")
• String cannot be converted to int for any other reason (say String is "aff" or "1.25")

Basically, it will handle all possible non-integer cases.

Code Example:

private static int convertStringToInt(String str){
    int x = 0;
    try{
        x = Integer.parseInt(str);
    }catch(NumberFormatException ex){
        //TODO: LOG or HANDLE
    }
    return x;
}