Java tutorial
// Copyright (C) 2011 Dmitri Nikulin // // This file is part of Vijil. // // Vijil is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // Vijil is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU Affero General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License // along with Vijil. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. // // Repository: https://github.com/dnikulin/vijil // Email: dnikulin+vijil@gmail.com package com.dnikulin.vijil.tools; import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils; /** Empty arrays of each primitive type, used as free sentinels. */ public final class Empty { // It happens that Apache Commons Lang already has these, // so simply refer back to them with shorter cleaner names. public static final byte[] bytes = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY; public static final short[] shorts = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_SHORT_ARRAY; public static final int[] ints = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_INT_ARRAY; public static final long[] longs = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_LONG_ARRAY; public static final float[] floats = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_FLOAT_ARRAY; public static final double[] doubles = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_DOUBLE_ARRAY; public static final Object[] objects = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_OBJECT_ARRAY; public static final String[] strings = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY; // Apache Commons Lang does not have an empty string // (which is almost certainly interned by the compiler anyway) // so provide one here. public static final String string = ""; public static byte[] copy(byte[] in) { return ArrayUtils.nullToEmpty(in); } public static short[] copy(short[] in) { return ArrayUtils.nullToEmpty(in); } public static int[] copy(int[] in) { return ArrayUtils.nullToEmpty(in); } public static long[] copy(long[] in) { return ArrayUtils.nullToEmpty(in); } public static float[] copy(float[] in) { return ArrayUtils.nullToEmpty(in); } public static double[] copy(double[] in) { return ArrayUtils.nullToEmpty(in); } private Empty() { } }