From 5febcfeef8d2a078af65608166a46f1872492894 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vladimir Krivosheev <vladimir.krivosheev@jetbrains.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:37:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] isEmptyOrSpaces accepts CharSequence +review

---
 .../src/com/intellij/openapi/util/text/StringUtil.java | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/platform/util/src/com/intellij/openapi/util/text/StringUtil.java b/platform/util/src/com/intellij/openapi/util/text/StringUtil.java
index ac15f2c57a21..f54897eb4282 100644
--- a/platform/util/src/com/intellij/openapi/util/text/StringUtil.java
+++ b/platform/util/src/com/intellij/openapi/util/text/StringUtil.java
@@ -968,8 +968,14 @@ public class StringUtil extends StringUtilRt {
   }
 
   @Contract("null -> true")
-  public static boolean isEmptyOrSpaces(@Nullable final String s) {
-    if (s == null || s.isEmpty()) {
+  // we need to keep this method to preserve backward compatibility
+  public static boolean isEmptyOrSpaces(@Nullable String s) {
+    return isEmptyOrSpaces(((CharSequence)s));
+  }
+
+  @Contract("null -> true")
+  public static boolean isEmptyOrSpaces(@Nullable CharSequence s) {
+    if (isEmpty(s)) {
       return true;
     }
     for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {