Best way to check that element is not present using Selenium WebDriver with java

Question

Im trying the code below but it seems it does not work... Can someone show me the best way to do this?

public void verifyThatCommentDeleted(final String text) throws Exception {
    new WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
            @Override
            public Boolean apply(WebDriver input) {
                try {
                    input.findElement(By.xpath(String.format(
                            Locators.CHECK_TEXT_IN_FIRST_STATUS_BOX, text)));
                    return false;
                } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
        });
    }

Answer 1

Instead of doing findElement, do findElements and check the length of the returned elements is 0. This is how I'm doing using WebdriverJS and I expect the same will work in Java