Starting with JDK 8, you can avoid NullPointerException by returning an Optional. For example, instead of returning null, this method returns an empty Optional:
public Optional fetchShoppingCart(long id) { ShoppingCart cart = // code that fetch the card content for the specified id return Optional.ofNullable(cart);} 
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