Can not find symbol isEmpty location java.lang.String

[ravindra patil]

Can any body tell in which jdk this method is added i am using jdk1.6.14 still not able to solve this compile problem

[Peter Taucher]

api doc says 'since 1.6'
-> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#isEmpty()

Are you sure you're using the correct compiler (e.g. type in shell 'java -version')?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Peter Taucher wrote:Are you sure you're using the correct compiler (e.g. type in shell 'java -version')?

You mean javac -version, surely? Of course, if the java version is wrong, you will still get an error, albeit a different one.

[ravindra patil]

ya its giving as jdk 1.3.1 ,

i have set my path to point 1.6 in system properties how command promt shows as jdk 1.3

My path setting -->as oracle is using 1.3 is it the reason it is showing as 1.3 ??
PATH =
C:\jdk1.6\jre\bin\client;C:\jdk1.6\jre\bin\client;D:\app\ixi\product\11.1.0\db_1\bin;C:\orant920\bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.3.1\bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\MKSNT\bin;

[Rob Spoor]

That's because the java executable is located in the bin folder, not in the bin\client folder.

[ravindra patil]

ya got it but problem is not yet solved but it was referring jdk from oracle


now command prompt is showing it as jdk 1.6.14

still i am getting compilation issue

my PATH =
C:\jdk1.6.0_14\bin;C:\jdk1.6.0_14\jre\bin\client;C:\jdk1.6.0_14\jre\bin\client;D:\app\ixi\product\11.1.0\db_1\bin;C:\orant920\bin;C:\MKSNT\bin;C:\MKSNT\bin\X11;C:\MKSNT\mksnt;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\;C:\IFOR\WIN\BIN;C:\IFOR\WIN\BIN\EN_US;C:\Program Files\IBM\License Use Management\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\BIN;C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\FUNCTION;C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\SAMPLES\REPL;C:\enoviav6r2011x\server\bin\winnt

[Rob Spoor]

ravindra patil wrote:still i am getting compilation issue

What's the exact error message?

I don't see why this method was added anyway. It's just shorthand for length() == 0. The only advantage is 4 characters less.

[ravindra patil]

Ha ha ... it got solved .... it was our application file that was pointing to jdk 1.5


thanks guys ...

[David Newton]

Rob Prime wrote:I don't see why this method was added anyway. It's just shorthand for length() == 0. The only advantage is 4 characters less.

Only four characters, but for me it's more about having less cognitive overhead. This seems like a big readability ROI:

foo.length() == 0

foo.isEmpty()

Less syntactic noise and more expressive; I find isEmpty to be much clearer, and tells a better story when read out loud (my ultimate standard of readability). There's a reason every string utility package has isEmpty() and/or isBlank()...

And both ELs and non-Java JVM languages can call it with foo.empty which is cleaner still--without having to monkeypatch String.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Rob Prime wrote: . . . It's just shorthand for length() == 0. The only advantage is 4 characters less.

Strinjg is a "library class" and you usually put as many methods in a library class as possible, just in case somebody wants to use it.

package java.lang;
 . . .
public final class String
 . . .
public boolean isEmpty()
{
   return this.length() == 0;
}//end isEmpty