Safe navigation operator
The Safe Navigation operator is used to avoid a NullPointerException. Typically when you have a reference to an object you might need to verify that it is not null before accessing methods or properties of the object. To avoid this, the safe navigation operator will simply return null instead of throwing an exception, like so:
def person = Person.find { it.id == 123 } // find will return a null instance
def name = person?.name // use of the null-safe operator prevents from a NullPointerException, result is null
