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* The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
* (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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/**
* <p>Operations on boolean primitives and Boolean objects.</p>
*
* <p>This class tries to handle <code>null</code> input gracefully.
* An exception will not be thrown for a <code>null</code> input.
* Each method documents its behaviour in more detail.</p>
*
* @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 {
/**
* <p>Boolean factory that avoids creating new Boolean objecs all the time.</p>
*
* <p>This method was added to JDK1.4 but is available here for earlier JDKs.</p>
*
* <pre>
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject(false) = Boolean.FALSE
* BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject(true) = Boolean.TRUE
* </pre>
*
* @param bool the boolean to convert
* @return Boolean.TRUE or Boolean.FALSE as appropriate
*/
public static Boolean toBooleanObject(boolean bool) {
return bool ? Boolean.TRUE : Boolean.FALSE;
}
}
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