Best way to deal with null in complex structure in C#

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I am calling an SAP web service that returns a crazy object like 5-10 levels deep to get anything meaningful. I hate all the code I have to write to do all the null checking, and I really don't want to wrap it in a try/catch to deal with a NullReferenceException. Does anyone have a good solution for this?

on C# 6 you can do, obj?.prop1?.prop2?.... – Arsen Mkrtchyan Feb 04 '16 at 13:13 — Arsen Mkrtchyan, Feb 04 '16 at 13:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 04 '16 at 13:13

There is a relatively new feature in C# called a "null-conditional operator" that sounds like a good fit for what you want. Instead of doing blah.blah.blah you do blah?.blah?.blah. Like I said this feature is pretty new. I know it is there in Visual Studio 2015 and C# 6.0, but you may not have it back in VS2010 or 2012. Here is a link to the msdn article:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn986595.aspx

Best way to deal with null in complex structure in C#

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