Is there a Java standard "both null or equal" static method?

Asked 2008-10-08T20:57:24.807

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To save some typing and clarify my code, is there a standard version of the following method?

public static boolean bothNullOrEqual(Object x, Object y) {
  return ( x == null ? y == null : x.equals(y) );
}

java null equals

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With Java 7 you can now directly do a null safe equals:

(The Jakarta Commons library ObjectUtils.equals() has become obsolete with Java 7)

answered 2012-02-20T15:31:00.907

if by some chance you are have access to the Jakarta Commons library there is ObjectUtils.equals() and lots of other useful functions.

EDIT: misread the question initially

answered 2008-10-08T21:10:40.350