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 * Copyright 2016 flipkart.com zjsonpatch.
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 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package io.fabric8.zjsonpatch.internal.guava;

public class Strings {

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if the given string is null or is the empty string.
   * 
   * Consider normalizing your string references with {@link #nullToEmpty}. If you do, you can
   * use {@link String#isEmpty()} instead of this method, and you won't need special null-safe forms
   * of methods like {@link String#toUpperCase} either. Or, if you'd like to normalize "in the other
   * direction," converting empty strings to {@code null}, you can use {@link #emptyToNull}.
   *
   * @param string a string reference to check
   * @return {@code true} if the string is null or is the empty string
   */
  public static boolean isNullOrEmpty(String string) {
    return string == null || string.isEmpty();
  }

}