The negate()
function is a static method of the BooleanUtils
class that negates the given boolean value.
BooleanUtils
The definition of BooleanUtils
can be found in the Apache Commons Lang package, which we can add to the Maven project by adding the following dependency to the pom.xml
file.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>3.12.0</version>
</dependency>
Note: To see other versions of the commons-lang package, refer to the Maven Repository.
We can import the BooleanUtils
class as follows:
import org.apache.commons.lang3.BooleanUtils;
public static Boolean negate(final Boolean bool)
final Boolean bool
: The Boolean
value to negate.The negate
function returns the negated boolean value of the given value.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>org.example</groupId> <artifactId>test</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <properties> <maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source> <maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId> <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId> <version>3.12.0</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1</version> <executions> <execution> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>shade</goal> </goals> <configuration> <transformers> <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer"> <mainClass>Main</mainClass> </transformer> </transformers> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
The maven dependency for BooleanUtils
is included in the pom.xml
file.
Let’s see the working of code in Main.java
:
BooleanUtils
class.val
.val
using the BooleanUtils.negate()
method.