How to handle empty DATETIM cell in mysql db in java?

Question

MySQL

There is a table in mysql database which has a DATETIME field. This field may be null. When I execute SELECT to this table and I receive the data in such a way that at null in this field the error takes off. How to handle null datetime field?
Date date = resultSet.getDate("date_birth")

Answer 1

Either check resultSet.getDate("date_birth") for null explicitly or use Optional from Java 8 if the project allows. Then everything will look like this:

Optional<Date> date = Optional.ofNullable(resultSet.getDate("date_birth");

Answer 2

Thank you all for your help. The solution was next. It was necessary to add to the database connection string so that
it would take the form of something like this
then null DATE field values ​​will be converted to java null