BeanItem.expandProperty and BeanItem.addNestedProperty java.lang.NullPoin

I have the following POJOS

Class Person{

private String name;
private Address address;

get…set
}

Class Address{

private String street;

get…set
}

My code
BeanItem personItem = new BeanItem(person);

I have use
personItem.expandProperty(“address”,“street”);

and

personItem.addNestedProperty(“address.street”);

The problem is that person.address is null! and the NullPointerException shows, if I change the constructor of the Person class to create an instance of the Address, it works, but this properties will be mandatory and it cant be mandatory.

The error log

Caused by: com.vaadin.data.util.MethodProperty$MethodException
at com.vaadin.data.util.NestedMethodProperty.getValue(NestedMethodProperty.java:205)
at com.vaadin.data.util.TransactionalPropertyWrapper.getValue(TransactionalPropertyWrapper.java:73)
at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractField.getDataSourceValue(AbstractField.java:299)
at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractField.setPropertyDataSource(AbstractField.java:629)
… 56 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at com.vaadin.data.util.NestedMethodProperty.getValue(NestedMethodProperty.java:201)

I just use nestedproperties, how can I do that?

someone can help-me?