Check for null arguments in Namespaces Rest API

[srkukarni]

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Motivation

Currently one can pass null parameters to several of the namespaces rest api, which will cause broker to throw null ptr exception. Instead we should check explicitly for null inputs.

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[wolfstudy]

Move this change to 2.6.2, because the #8182 depends on this pr.