From abf9b88052b29c541e354b56fe8c2b54c8b4dff8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fokko Driesprong <fokko@tabular.io>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:10:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] AVRO-3982: Use `String.isEmpty()` instead (#2873)

---
 .../avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BinaryEncoder.java    | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BinaryEncoder.java b/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BinaryEncoder.java
index 22d0326165c..aacb83b88f4 100644
--- a/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BinaryEncoder.java
+++ b/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BinaryEncoder.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public void writeString(Utf8 utf8) throws IOException {
 
   @Override
   public void writeString(String string) throws IOException {
-    if (0 == string.length()) {
+    if (string.isEmpty()) {
       writeZero();
       return;
     }