Java: Clean way of avoiding NullPointerException in equals checks

Question

I have an address object that I want to create an equals method for. I could have made this quite simple by doing something like the following (shortened a bit):

Answer 1

Google Guava provides Objects.equal(Object, Object) which checks for equality while taking into consideration that either of the parameters might be null:

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return Objects.equal(this.getStreet(), other.getStreet())
    && Objects.equal(this.getStreetNumber(), other.getStreetNumber())
    && Objects.equal(this.getStreetLetter(), other.getStreetLetter())
    && Objects.equal(this.getTown(), other.getTown());

It's also worth pointing out that Objects has other helper methods for implementing hashCode() and toString().