}

  public <T> void testVariableTypeTokenNotAllowed() {
    /*
     * We'd use assertThrows here, but that causes no exception to be thrown under Java 8,
     * presumably because the ThrowingRunnable lambda triggers some kind of bug in Java 8's
     * reflection implementation.
     */
    try {
      new TypeToken<T>() {};
      fail();
    } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {
    }
  }

  /*
   * We avoid using a method reference or lambda here for now:
   *
   * - method reference: Inside Google, CacheBuilder is used from the implementation of a custom
   *   ClassLoader that is sometimes used as a system classloader. That's a problem because
   *   method-reference linking tries to look up the system classloader, and it fails because there
   *   isn't one yet.
   *

  }

  public <T> void testVariableTypeTokenNotAllowed() {
    /*
     * We'd use assertThrows here, but that causes no exception to be thrown under Java 8,
     * presumably because the ThrowingRunnable lambda triggers some kind of bug in Java 8's
     * reflection implementation.
     */
    try {
      new TypeToken<T>() {};
      fail();
    } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {
    }
  }