* use {@link String#isEmpty()} instead of this method, and you won't need special null-safe forms
   * of methods like {@link String#toUpperCase} either. Or, if you'd like to normalize "in the other
   * direction," converting empty strings to {@code null}, you can use {@link #emptyToNull}.
   *
   * @param string a string reference to check
   * @return {@code true} if the string is null or is the empty string
   */

    * Path parameters.
    * Query parameters.
    * Cookies.
    * Headers.
    * Forms.
    * Files.
* <abbr title="also known as: serialization, parsing, marshalling">Conversion</abbr> of output data: converting from Python data and types to network data (as JSON):
    * Convert Python types (`str`, `int`, `float`, `bool`, `list`, etc).
    * `datetime` objects.
    * `UUID` objects.
    * Database models.

          }
        }
      }
    },
    /*
     * This one comes last to work around b/367716565. (One *possible* alternative would be to not
     * declare any methods in this enum, converting assertFailsToDecode into a static method that is
     * implemented with a `switch`. I haven't tested that.)
     */
    @GwtIncompatible // decodingStream(Reader)
    DECODING_STREAM {
      @Override

 * 2^64 + x}). The methods for which signedness is not an issue are in {@link Longs}, as well as
 * signed versions of methods for which signedness is an issue.
 *
 * <p>In addition, this class provides several static methods for converting a {@code long} to a
 * {@code String} and a {@code String} to a {@code long} that treat the {@code long} as an unsigned
 * number.
 *

import org.codelibs.core.exception.ClUnsupportedOperationException;
import org.codelibs.core.exception.ParseRuntimeException;
import org.codelibs.core.misc.LocaleUtil;

/**
 * Utility for converting objects that represent only dates to {@link Date}, {@link Calendar}, or {@link java.sql.Date}.
 * <p>

///

## Password hashing { #password-hashing }

"Hashing" means converting some content (a password in this case) into a sequence of bytes (just a string) that looks like gibberish.

Whenever you pass exactly the same content (exactly the same password) you get exactly the same gibberish.

import org.codelibs.core.exception.ClUnsupportedOperationException;
import org.codelibs.core.exception.ParseRuntimeException;
import org.codelibs.core.misc.LocaleUtil;

/**
 * Utility for converting time-representing objects to {@link Date}, {@link Calendar}, or {@link Time}.
 * <p>
 * For objects representing only dates, see {@link DateConversionUtil}. For objects representing both date and time,

import org.codelibs.core.exception.ClUnsupportedOperationException;
import org.codelibs.core.exception.ParseRuntimeException;
import org.codelibs.core.misc.LocaleUtil;

/**
 * Utility for converting objects representing date and time to {@link Date}, {@link Calendar}, and {@link Timestamp}.
 * <p>

- **Bean Manipulation** (`org.codelibs.core.beans`) - JavaBeans metadata handling, property access, and object conversion with comprehensive `BeanDesc` system
- **Type Conversion** (`org.codelibs.core.convert`) - Comprehensive utilities for converting between Java types with null-safe operations and support for all primitive types

 * 2^32 + x}). The methods for which signedness is not an issue are in {@link Ints}, as well as
 * signed versions of methods for which signedness is an issue.
 *
 * <p>In addition, this class provides several static methods for converting an {@code int} to a
 * {@code String} and a {@code String} to an {@code int} that treat the {@code int} as an unsigned
 * number.
 *