StringBuffer和StringBuilder调用append(null)方法的值的误导

package com;

public class StringTest2
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        String s = null;
        sb.append(s);
        System.out.println(sb.length());
        StringBuilder sb2 = new StringBuilder();
        sb2.append(s);
        System.out.println(sb2.length());
    }

}

结果会输出,有人一定会说输出0.

结果是什么呢?

4
null
4

怎么回事呢，明明添加了一个null值,结果竟然是4。

让我们来看看append方法的源码就知道了.
StringBuilder:

// Appends the specified string builder to this sequence.
    private StringBuilder append(StringBuilder sb) {
    if (sb == null)
            return append("null");
    int len = sb.length();
    int newcount = count + len;
    if (newcount > value.length)
        expandCapacity(newcount);
    sb.getChars(0, len, value, count);
    count = newcount;
        return this;
    }

StringBuffer的append方法是在它的父类中实现的:

public AbstractStringBuilder append(String str) {
    if (str == null) str = "null";
        int len = str.length();
    if (len == 0) return this;
    int newCount = count + len;
    if (newCount > value.length)
        expandCapacity(newCount);
    str.getChars(0, len, value, count);
    count = newCount;
    return this;
    }

这两个append方法都有共同的:

if (str == null) str = "null";
        int len = str.length();

如果str 是 null,就賦予str = "null" 这个字符串,而不是null了.
而"null"这个字符串的长度自然是4了.

 

转载自：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4ee6ad380100axq3.html