Unboxing Null-Object to primitive type results in NullPointerException, fine?

Question

This snippet throws an NullPointerException due to the fact that its unboxed to a primitive type and Long.longValue() is called, right?

Tha

Answer 1

Since Java 8 SE there is also Optional.ofNullable

long value = Optional.ofNullable(obj.getProperty(propertyModel.getName())).orElse(0L)));