Merge pull request #32756 from pnicolucci/UpdateStripWhiteSpacesJavadoc

Update javadoc in NettyHeaderUtils

Author: pnicolucci

dev/com.ibm.ws.transport.http/src/com/ibm/ws/http/netty/NettyHeaderUtils.java

@@ -71,10 +71,12 @@ public static void setVary(HttpHeaders headers, String value) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * @param acceptEncodingHeader
-     * @return
+     * Strip whitespace from a given String.
+     *
+     * @param string The String to strip whitespace from.
+     * @return an empty String if the given String is null, otherwise a String with all whitespace removed.
      */
-    public static String stripWhiteSpaces(String string) {
+    public static String stripWhiteSpace(String string) {
         return Objects.isNull(string) ? HttpConstants.EMPTY_STRING : string.replaceAll("\\s+", "");
     }
 

dev/com.ibm.ws.transport.http/src/com/ibm/ws/http/netty/pipeline/ResponseCompressionHandler.java

@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ private void parseAcceptEncodingHeader() {
             return;
         }
 
-        acceptEncodingHeader = NettyHeaderUtils.stripWhiteSpaces(acceptEncodingHeader).toLowerCase();
+        acceptEncodingHeader = NettyHeaderUtils.stripWhiteSpace(acceptEncodingHeader).toLowerCase();
 
         if (TraceComponent.isAnyTracingEnabled() && tc.isDebugEnabled()) {
             Tr.debug(tc, method, "parsing [" + acceptEncodingHeader + "]");