spring-projectsGH-2342: Remove unused json-path dependency in spring-ai-openai

Signed-off-by: Barsha Ghosh <[email protected]>

Use the proper StringUtils in OpenAiAudioSpeechModel

Signed-off-by: Soby Chacko <[email protected]>

Author: barsha-ghosh721

models/spring-ai-openai/pom.xml

@@ -55,11 +55,6 @@
 			<version>${project.parent.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
-			<artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
-
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.github.victools</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jsonschema-generator</artifactId>

models/spring-ai-openai/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/openai/OpenAiAudioSpeechModel.java

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 package org.springframework.ai.openai;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
@@ -35,6 +34,7 @@
 import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
 import org.springframework.retry.support.RetryTemplate;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
  * OpenAI audio speech client implementation for backed by {@link OpenAiAudioApi}.
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ private OpenAiAudioApi.SpeechRequest createRequest(SpeechPrompt request) {
 			}
 		}
 
-		String input = StringUtils.isNotBlank(options.getInput()) ? options.getInput()
+		String input = StringUtils.hasText(options.getInput()) ? options.getInput()
 				: request.getInstructions().getText();
 
 		OpenAiAudioApi.SpeechRequest.Builder requestBuilder = OpenAiAudioApi.SpeechRequest.builder()