Cannot convert null UDTs to nested Java Bean

While reading for table with null udts, observed an error. It is unable to map Row to JavaBean when one of the udt columns is null.

Error
Caused by: com.datastax.spark.connector.types.TypeConversionException: Cannot convert object null to test.SampleUDT.
at com.datastax.spark.connector.types.TypeConverter$$anonfun$convert$1.apply(TypeConverter.scala:48)
at com.datastax.spark.connector.mapper.GettableDataToMappedTypeConverter$$anonfun$convertPF$1.applyOrElse(GettableDataToMappedTypeConverter.scala:256)
at com.datastax.spark.connector.types.TypeConverter$class.convert(TypeConverter.scala:44)
at com.datastax.spark.connector.mapper.GettableDataToMappedTypeConverter.convert(GettableDataToMappedTypeConverter.scala:19)