org.hamcrest.text
Class IsBlankString

java.lang.Object
  org.hamcrest.BaseMatcher<T>
      org.hamcrest.TypeSafeMatcher<String>
          org.hamcrest.text.IsBlankString

All Implemented Interfaces:

Matcher<String>, SelfDescribing

public final class IsBlankString
extends TypeSafeMatcher<String>

Matches blank Strings (and null).

Method Summary

static Matcher<String>	blankOrNullString() Creates a matcher of String that matches when the examined string is null, or contains zero or more whitespace characters and nothing else.
static Matcher<String>	blankString() Creates a matcher of String that matches when the examined string contains zero or more whitespace characters and nothing else.
void	describeTo(Description description)
boolean	matchesSafely(String item)

Methods inherited from class org.hamcrest.TypeSafeMatcher

describeMismatch, describeMismatchSafely, matches

Methods inherited from class org.hamcrest.BaseMatcher

_dont_implement_Matcher___instead_extend_BaseMatcher_, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

matchesSafely

public boolean matchesSafely(String item)

Specified by:

matchesSafely in class TypeSafeMatcher<String>

describeTo

public void describeTo(Description description)

blankString

public static Matcher<String> blankString()

Creates a matcher of String that matches when the examined string contains zero or more whitespace characters and nothing else.

For example:

assertThat("  ", is(blankString()))

blankOrNullString

public static Matcher<String> blankOrNullString()

Creates a matcher of String that matches when the examined string is null, or contains zero or more whitespace characters and nothing else.

For example:

assertThat(((String)null), is(blankOrNullString()))