Hi All: Right now we have a giant class called StringUtils. I have code that in my own library that has at least one null-safe API that for Strings. For example a String.getBytes(String, Charset) that returns a null byte[] if the input String is null.
I'd like to propose a new class called NullSafeStrings, that covers all String APIs (there aren't that many) for null-safe String input. If some of these APIs are already in StringUtils, those would be deprecated and point to NullSafeStrings. Note that I am not using the "Utils" postfix on purpose since I find it meaning less and the JRE now uses the plural form for this kind of code; see Files and Paths. Thoughts? Gary
