Standard Hamcrest matcher to check if collection is empty or null?

Question

Is there a shorter version of the following assert statement using standard Hamcrest matchers?

Collection<Element> collection = ...

assertThat(collection, is(anyOf(nullValue(Collection.class), 
     emptyCollectionOf(Element.class))));

I realize there is a way to create a custom matcher, was hoping that maybe there is already something in place that addresses this without any additional code change.

Answer 1

There is no out-of-the-box solution, and worse, either() can't be used due to this bug. So the shortest way is this:

assertThat(collection, anyOf(nullValue(), empty()));