@SuppressWarnings("Java7ApiChecker")
  abstract AnnotatedType[] getAnnotatedParameterTypes();

  /** This should never return a type that's not a subtype of Throwable. */
  abstract Type[] getGenericExceptionTypes();

  abstract Annotation[][] getParameterAnnotations();

  abstract Type getGenericReturnType();

  /**
   * Returns the {@link AnnotatedType} for the return type.
   *
   * @since 14.0
   */

import com.google.common.reflect.Reflection;
import com.google.common.reflect.TypeToken;
import com.google.errorprone.annotations.CanIgnoreReturnValue;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedType;
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Member;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;

   *
   * <p>Java 8 introduced a new method {@code getAnnotatedBounds()} in the {@link TypeVariable}
   * interface, whose return type {@code AnnotatedType[]} is also new in Java 8. That means that we
   * cannot implement that interface in source code in a way that will compile on both Java 7 and

      }
    };

    public abstract boolean isExpectedType(Throwable cause);
  }

  private static boolean annotatedTypeExists() {
    try {
      Class.forName("java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedType");
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

  private static final NullnessAnnotationReader NULLNESS_ANNOTATION_READER =
      annotatedTypeExists()