Marcel truth
A truthy value is a value that is considered to be true for an if, or a while.
A falsey value is a value that is considered false in those places.
The only falsey values are the following:
false
null
- a Boolean instance whose value is
false
Optional.empty()
,OptionalInt.empty()
,OptionalDouble.empty()
,OptionalLong.empty()
- An empty collection
- An empty array
- An empty Map
- An empty String
- A Matcher who's
find()
method would return false - A File who's
exists()
method would return false - A failure Result
- An object implementing MarcelTruth who's
isTruthy()
method would return false
Any other value is truthy.