Check if null Boolean is true results in exception
Or with the power of Java 8 Optional, you also can do such trick:
Optional.ofNullable(boolValue).orElse(false)
:)
Use the Apache BooleanUtils.
(If peak performance is the most important priority in your project then look at one of the other answers for a native solution that doesn't require including an external library.)
Don't reinvent the wheel. Leverage what's already been built and use isTrue()
:
BooleanUtils.isTrue( bool );
Checks if a Boolean
value is true, handling null
by returning false
.
If you're not limited to the libraries you're "allowed" to include, there are a bunch of great helper functions for all sorts of use-cases, including Booleans
and Strings
. I suggest you peruse the various Apache libraries and see what they already offer.
If you don't like extra null checks:
if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(value)) {...}
When you have a boolean
it can be either true
or false
. Yet when you have a Boolean
it can be either Boolean.TRUE
, Boolean.FALSE
or null
as any other object.
In your particular case, your Boolean
is null
and the if
statement triggers an implicit conversion to boolean
that produces the NullPointerException
. You may need instead:
if(bool != null && bool) { ... }