* we're copying into a `contents` array whose type allows it to contain nulls. Still, it's
       * worth noting that we promise not to put nulls into the array in the first `size` elements.
       * We uphold that promise here because our callers promise that `elements` will not contain
       * nulls in its first `n` elements.
       */
      System.arraycopy(elements, 0, contents, size, n);
      size += n;

  }

  /*
   * All the ContiguousSet generators below manually reject nulls here. In principle, we'd like to
   * defer that to Range, since it's ContiguousSet.create() that's used to create the sets. However,
   * that gets messy here, and we already have null tests for Range.
   */

  /*
   * These generators also rely on consecutive integer inputs (not necessarily in order, but no

  @Override
  public boolean contains(@Nullable Object target) {
    @Nullable Object[] table = this.table;
    if (target == null || table.length == 0) {
      return false;
    }
    for (int i = Hashing.smearedHash(target); ; i++) {
      i &= mask;
      Object candidate = table[i];
      if (candidate == null) {
        return false;
      } else if (candidate.equals(target)) {
        return true;
      }
    }
  }

    return asImmutableList(array);
  }

  /** Views the array as an immutable list. Checks for nulls; does not copy. */
  private static <E> ImmutableList<E> construct(Object... elements) {
    return asImmutableList(checkElementsNotNull(elements));
  }

  /**
   * Views the array as an immutable list. Does not check for nulls; does not copy.
   *
   * <p>The array must be internally created.
   */

        // Match by share name or server address, safely handling nulls
        boolean shareMatch = resourceName != null && shareName != null && resourceName.equalsIgnoreCase(shareName);

        String serverAddress = registration.getServerAddress() != null ? registration.getServerAddress().getHostAddress() : null;
        boolean addressMatch = java.util.Objects.equals(resourceName, serverAddress);

   */
  /*
   * By declaring <T> instead of <T extends @Nullable Object>, we declare this method as requiring a
   * stream whose elements are non-null. However, the method goes out of its way to still handle
   * nulls in the stream. This means that the method can safely be used with a stream that contains
   * nulls as long as the *last* element is *not* null.
   *

  }

  /*
   * We don't permit nulls, but we wrap every comparator with nullsFirst().
   * Why? We want for queries like containsKey(null) to return false, but the
   * GWT SortedMap implementation that we delegate to throws
   * NullPointerException if the comparator does. Since our construction
   * methods ensure that null is never present in the map, it's OK for the

   * removal operations, and these are reflected in the underlying table.
   *
   * <p>It's acceptable for the underlying table to contain null keys, and even null values provided
   * that the function is capable of accepting null input. The transformed table might contain null
   * values, if the function sometimes gives a null result.
   *
   * <p>The returned table is not thread-safe or serializable, even if the underlying table is.
   *

    static FactoryMethodReturnsNullButNotAnnotated returnsNull() {
      return null;
    }
  }

  static class FactoryMethodReturnsNullAndAnnotated {
    private FactoryMethodReturnsNullAndAnnotated() {}

    public static @Nullable FactoryMethodReturnsNullAndAnnotated returnsNull() {
      return null;
    }
  }

  static class FactoryMethodAcceptsNull {

   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if any key or value in {@code map} is null
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public static <K, V> ImmutableSortedMap<K, V> copyOfSorted(SortedMap<K, ? extends V> map) {
    Comparator<? super K> comparator = map.comparator();
    if (comparator == null) {
      // If map has a null comparator, the keys should have a natural ordering,