Brandon Li created HADOOP-8814: ---------------------------------- Summary: Inefficient comparison with the empty string. Use isEmpty() instead Key: HADOOP-8814 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8814 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Components: conf, fs, fs/s3, ha, io, metrics, performance, record, security, util Reporter: Brandon Li Assignee: Brandon Li Priority: Minor
Prior to JDK 6, we can check if a string is empty in 2 ways: * if(s != null && s.length() == 0) * if(("").equals(s)) or if( s.equals("")) Starting from JDK 6, String class has a new convenience and efficient method isEmpty() to check string's length. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira