Java – how to simulate a null safe operator with a default return value?

I'm sorry for the title, but I can't find a good way to describe the problem in one sentence In short, I have a lot of Java code that follows this pattern

if (obj != null && obj.getPropertyX() != null) {
    return obj.getPropertyX();
}
return defaultProperty;

Can be rewritten as

return obj != null && obj.getPropertyX() != null ? obj.getPropertyX() : defaultProperty;

It's still ugly. I wonder if there are any APIs in Google guava or other libraries to help clean up this code Specifically, I'm looking for something similar

return someAPI(obj,"getPropertyX",defaultProperty);

I can use reflection to implement this method, but I'm not sure if it's the right method thank you.

Solution

In Java 8, you can use:

return Optional.ofNullable(obj).map(Obj::getPropertyX).orElse(defaultProperty);