DataTable crashes with a "Cannot read property 'xxx' of null" for nested objects

[renathoaz]

Templating will solve it for display data, but for Global filter it also crashes if the nested object is null.

[renathoaz]

I found the same issue already solved on primereact, the problem is pretty the same
primefaces/primereact#791

The solution is simple, please update resolveField on ObjectUtils

resolveFieldData(data, field) {
        if(data && field) {
            if (this.isFunction(field)) {
                return field(data);
            }
            else if(field.indexOf('.') === -1) {
                return data[field];
            }
            else {
                let fields = field.split('.');
                let value = data;
                for(var i = 0, len = fields.length; i < len; ++i) {
                    if (value == null) {
                        return null;
                    }
                    value = value[fields[i]];
                }
                return value;
            }
        }
        else {
            return null;
        }
    }

[renathoaz]

Sorry for commenting in a closed issue, but any possibility of having this issue fixed on a v2 release ?
I still need to use primevue v2.

[cagataycivici]

Sure -> #665