[java] How to check whether a int is not null or empty?

I really dont know if this is possible or not. But I am strucking in a place where I want to check an int value is null or not, to call different methods.

Is there any way to do it?

Actually, variable comes from a browser with a null value. I cannot change the int declaration to Integer. Because it has it own consequences.

Any suggestions?

Possibly browser returns String representation of some integer value? Actually int can't be null. May be you could check for null, if value is not null, then transform String representation to int.

An integer can't be null but there is a really simple way of doing what you want to do. Use an if-then statement in which you check the integer's value against all possible values.

Example:

int x;

// Some Code...

if (x <= 0 || x > 0){
    // What you want the code to do if x has a value
} else {
    // What you want the code to do if x has no value 
}

Disclaimer: I am assuming that Java does not automatically set values of numbers to 0 if it doesn't see a value.

I think you can initialize the variables a value like -1, because if the int type variables is not initialized it can't be used. When you want to check if it is not the value you want you can check if it is -1.

I think you are asking about code like this.

int  count = (request.getParameter("counter") == null) ? 0 : Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("counter"));

int cannot be null. If you are not assigning any value to int default value will be 0. If you want to check for null then make int as Integer in declaration. Then Integer object can be null. So, you can check where it is null or not. Even in javax bean validation you won't be able to get error for @NotNull annotation until the variable is declared as Integer.

if your int variable is declared as a class level variable (instance variable) it would be defaulted to 0. But that does not indicate if the value sent from the client was 0 or a null. may be you could have a setter method which could be called to initialize/set the value sent by the client. then you can define your indicator value , may be a some negative value to indicate the null..

public class Demo {
    private static int i;
    private static Integer j;
    private static int k = -1;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(i+" "+j+" "+k);
    }
}

OutPut: 0 null -1