Spring Thymeleaf SPEL - if null not wroking - spring

Question

i have the below code that everything runs fine except the check to see if the value is null. I know the value being returned is null, yet it still doesn't work. I've tried having == null both within and outside the {} to no avail.
Maybe it has something to do with how hibernate is returning the value? When i print out the object returned from the db it says null.
<div th:each="timecardLast: ${timecardLast}">
<a th:href="#{/timecardin}">
<div th:if="${timecardLast.status == null}" style="width: 100%" class="waves-effect card-panel green darken-1 z-depth-4">
<div class="card-content center-align">
<i class="medium material-icons white-text">timer</i>
<h5 class="white-text">SIGN IN TO WORK</h5>
</div>
</div>
</a>
<a th:href="#{/timecardin}">
<div th:if="${timecardLast.status} == 1" style="width: 100%" class="waves-effect card-panel green darken-1 z-depth-4">
<div class="card-content center-align">
<i class="medium material-icons white-text">timer</i>
<h5 class="white-text">SIGN IN TO WORK</h5>
</div>
</div>
</a>
<a th:href="#{/timecradin}">
<div th:if="${timecardLast.status} == 2" style="width: 100%" class="waves-effect card-panel deep-orange darken-2 z-depth-4">
<div class="card-content center-align">
<i class="medium material-icons white-text">timer</i>
<h5 class="white-text">SIGN IN TO WORK</h5>
</div>
</div>
</a>
<a th:href="#{/timecardout}">
<div th:if="${timecardLast.status} == 0" style="width: 100%" class="waves-effect card-panel deep-orange darken-2 z-depth-4">
<div class="card-content center-align">
<i class="medium material-icons white-text">timer_off</i>
<h5 class="white-text">SIGN OUT OF WORK</h5>
</div>
</div>
</a>
</div>

Answer 1

The syntax for lists in Thymeleaf is naming the element and naming the list. You have both names for the same thing. So you may want instead:
<div th:each="timecard: ${timecardList}">
...
<div th:if="${timecard.status == null}"...>
...
After adding a list of objects called timecardList to the model.

Answer 2

Took a step back and looked at how i was creating the object. I was not initializing the object first i.e.
Timecard timecardLast = timecardService.getLastTimecardByIdusers(staff);
So, a simple initialization of the object properly did the job followed by the db request i.e.
timecardLast = new Timecard();
timecardLast = timecardService.getLastTimecardByIdusers(staff);