groovy Safe Navigation Operator Concatenation of safe navigation operators
Example
class User {
String name
int age
}
def users = [
new User(name: "Bob", age: 20),
new User(name: "Tom", age: 50),
new User(name: "Bill", age: 45)
]
def null_value = users.find { it.age > 100 } // no over-100 found. Null
null_value?.name?.length() // no NPE thrown
// null ?. name ?. length()
// (null ?. name) ?. length()
// ( null ) ?. length()
// null
null_value?.name.length() // NPE thrown
// null ?. name . length()
// (null ?. name) . length()
// ( null ) . length() ===> NullPointerException
the safe navigation on null_value?.name will return a null value. Thus length() will have to perform a check on null value to avoid a NullPointerException.
