Cast a Null String into Integer

Question

Is there any way to cast a null to Integer. The null is actually a String, which i am passing in my service layer that accepts it as an Integer. So, whenever i try to cast a

Answer 1

If you're using apache commons, there is an helper method that does the trick:

NumberUtils.createInteger(myString)

As said in the documentation:

"convert a String to a Integer, handling hex and octal notations; returns null if the string is null; throws NumberFormatException if the value cannot be converted.