@Override
  public Set<N> successors() {
    return Collections.unmodifiableSet(successorsMultiset().elementSet());
  }

  private Multiset<N> successorsMultiset() {
    Multiset<N> successors = getReference(successorsReference);
    if (successors == null) {
      successors = HashMultiset.create(outEdgeMap.values());
      successorsReference = new SoftReference<>(successors);
    }
    return successors;
  }

    return delegate().adjacentNodes(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<N> predecessors(N node) {
    return delegate().predecessors(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<N> successors(N node) {
    return delegate().successors(node);
  }

  @Override
  public int degree(N node) {
    return delegate().degree(node);
  }

  @Override
  public int inDegree(N node) {
    return delegate().inDegree(node);

  ElementOrder<N> nodeOrder();

  //
  // Element-level accessors
  //

  /**
   * Returns a live view of the nodes which have an incident edge in common with {@code node} in
   * this graph.
   *
   * <p>This is equal to the union of {@link #predecessors(Object)} and {@link #successors(Object)}.
   *
   * <p>If {@code node} is removed from the graph after this method is called, the {@code Set}

    private static void visitNode(BuildStep node, Set<BuildStep> visited, List<BuildStep> sortedNodes) {
        if (visited.add(node)) {
            // For each successor of the current node, visit unvisited successors
            node.successors.forEach(successor -> visitNode(successor, visited, sortedNodes));
            sortedNodes.add(node);
        }
    }

  /**
   * Remove {@code node} from the set of successors. Returns the value previously associated with
   * the edge connecting the two nodes.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  @Nullable V removeSuccessor(N node);

  /**
   * Add {@code node} as a predecessor to the origin node. In the case of an undirected graph, it
   * also becomes a successor. Associates {@code value} with the edge connecting the two nodes.
   */

  @Override
  public Set<N> predecessors(N node) {
    return nodeInvalidatableSet(checkedConnections(node).predecessors(), node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<N> successors(N node) {
    return nodeInvalidatableSet(checkedConnections(node).successors(), node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<EndpointPair<N>> incidentEdges(N node) {
    GraphConnections<N, V> connections = checkedConnections(node);

 * which has a method {@code getChildren()} that retrieves its successors in a graph:
 *
 * {@snippet :
 * someGraphAlgorithm(startNode, MyNode::getChildren);
 * }
 *
 * <p>If you have some other mechanism for returning the successors of a node, or one that doesn't
 * return an {@code Iterable<? extends N>}, then you can use a lambda to perform a more general

    return delegate().adjacentNodes(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<N> predecessors(N node) {
    return delegate().predecessors(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<N> successors(N node) {
    return delegate().successors(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<EndpointPair<N>> incidentEdges(N node) {
    return delegate().incidentEdges(node);
  }

  @Override
  public int degree(N node) {

    return delegate().adjacentNodes(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<N> predecessors(N node) {
    return delegate().predecessors(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<N> successors(N node) {
    return delegate().successors(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<E> incidentEdges(N node) {
    return delegate().incidentEdges(node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<E> inEdges(N node) {

  @Override
  public Set<N> predecessors(N node) {
    return nodeInvalidatableSet(checkedConnections(node).predecessors(), node);
  }

  @Override
  public Set<N> successors(N node) {
    return nodeInvalidatableSet(checkedConnections(node).successors(), node);
  }

  final NetworkConnections<N, E> checkedConnections(N node) {
    NetworkConnections<N, E> connections = nodeConnections.get(node);
    if (connections == null) {