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/**
* Operations on boolean primitives and Boolean objects.
*
* This class tries to handle null input gracefully.
* An exception will not be thrown for a null input.
* Each method documents its behaviour in more detail.
*
* @author Stephen Colebourne
* @author Matthew Hawthorne
* @author Gary Gregory
* @since 2.0
* @version $Id: BooleanUtils.java 589050 2007-10-27 05:07:45Z bayard $
*/
public class Main {
/**
* Converts a String to a Boolean.
*
* 'true', 'on' or 'yes'
* (case insensitive) will return true.
* 'false', 'off' or 'no'
* (case insensitive) will return false.
* Otherwise, null is returned.
*
*
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject(null) = null
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject("true") = Boolean.TRUE
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject("false") = Boolean.FALSE
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject("on") = Boolean.TRUE
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject("ON") = Boolean.TRUE
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject("off") = Boolean.FALSE
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject("oFf") = Boolean.FALSE
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject("blue") = null
*
*
* @param str the String to check
* @return the Boolean value of the string,
* null if no match or null input
*/
public static Boolean toBooleanObject(String str) {
if ("true".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return Boolean.TRUE;
} else if ("false".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return Boolean.FALSE;
} else if ("on".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return Boolean.TRUE;
} else if ("off".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return Boolean.FALSE;
} else if ("yes".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return Boolean.TRUE;
} else if ("no".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return Boolean.FALSE;
}
// no match
return null;
}
}