A better way to convert Integer (may be null) to int in Java?

Question

An Integer can be null. I convert an Integer to an int by:

Integer integer = null;
int i;

try {
    i = integer.intValue();
}
catch (NullPointerException e) {
    i = -1;
} 

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

With Java8 the following works, too:

Optional.ofNullable(integer).orElse(-1)