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Return a Boolean if the Optional Is Empty

Beginning with JDK 11, we can return a boolean if the Optional is empty via Optional#isEmpty():

public boolean bookIsEmpty(long id) {    Optional book = // code that fetches the book content    return book.isEmpty();}

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