How to prevent NPE when accessing a nested/indexed property of a bean

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Is there any way to prevent NPE when accessing a nested bean using commons-beanutils? Here is my code:

new BeanUtilsBean().getProperty(human, "parent.name");

In this case I want getProperty() to either return empty string ("") when human.getParent() == null or handle it in a way other that throwing an NPE.

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