// Being conservative here because the user could use resolveType() to resolve a type in an
    // invariant context.
    return of(getInvariantTypeResolver().resolveType(type));
  }

  private TypeToken<?> resolveSupertype(Type type) {
    TypeToken<?> supertype = of(getCovariantTypeResolver().resolveType(type));
    // super types' type mapping is a subset of type mapping of this type.