@GwtCompatible(emulated = true)
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public final class Lists {
  private Lists() {}

  // ArrayList

  /**
   * Creates a <i>mutable</i>, empty {@code ArrayList} instance (for Java 6 and earlier).
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> if mutability is not required, use {@link ImmutableList#of()} instead.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> this method is now unnecessary and should be treated as deprecated. Instead,

   * request, and ensure that (1/QPS) seconds have elapsed since then. For example, for a rate of
   * QPS=5 (5 tokens per second), if we ensure that a request isn't granted earlier than 200ms after
   * the last one, then we achieve the intended rate. If a request comes and the last request was
   * granted only 100ms ago, then we wait for another 100ms. At this rate, serving 15 fresh permits

 * {@link FinalizableReference#finalizeReferent()} on them.
 *
 * <p>Keep a strong reference to this object until all of the associated referents have been
 * finalized. If this object is garbage collected earlier, the backing thread will not invoke {@code
 * finalizeReferent()} on the remaining references.
 *
 * <p>As an example of how this is used, imagine you have a class {@code MyServer} that creates a

 *       is strongly recommended.
 *   <li>Streams are standard Java, not requiring a third-party dependency (but do render your code
 *       incompatible with Java 7 and earlier).
 * </ul>
 *
 * <h3>Example</h3>
 *
 * <p>Here is an example that accepts a list from a database call, filters it based on a predicate,

  }

  /**
   * Returns a stream of this fluent iterable's contents (similar to calling {@link
   * Collection#stream} on a collection).
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> the earlier in the chain you can switch to {@code Stream} usage (ideally not
   * going through {@code FluentIterable} at all), the more performant and idiomatic your code will

    public void executeTests() {
        JavaVersion javaVersion = getJavaVersion();
        if (!javaVersion.isJava6Compatible()) {
            throw new UnsupportedJavaRuntimeException("Support for test execution using Java 5 or earlier was removed in Gradle 3.0.");
        }
        if (!javaVersion.isJava8Compatible()) {
            if (testFramework.get() instanceof JUnitPlatformTestFramework) {

 * assertEquals(TypeToken.of(String.class), invokable.getReturnType()); // Not Object.class!
 * assertEquals(new TypeToken<List<String>>() {}, invokable.getOwnerType());
 * }</pre>
 *
 * <p><b>Note:</b> earlier versions of this class inherited from {@link
 * java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject AccessibleObject} and {@link
 * java.lang.reflect.GenericDeclaration GenericDeclaration}. Since version 31.0 that is no longer

      Thread.yield();
    }
    cache.invalidateAll();
    tasksFinished.await();

    // Check all of the removal notifications we received: they should have had correctly-associated
    // keys and values. (An earlier bug saw removal notifications for in-progress computations,
    // which had real keys with null values.)
    Map<String, String> removalNotifications = Maps.newHashMap();

        if (result == null) {
            throw new Failure("Could not determine the opcode for intercepting the call");
        }
        return result;
    }

    // TODO: move validation earlier?

    private static void generateInterceptedInvocation(CallInterceptionRequest request, FieldSpec implTypeField, CodeBlock.Builder method) {
        CallableInfo callable = request.getInterceptedCallable();

     * checkers are unlikely to ever look at the annotations on this declaration.
     *
     * Historical note: At one point, we'd declared this method as accepting and returning nullable
     * values. For details on that, see earlier revisions of this file.
     */
    return convert(a);
  }

  /**
   * Indicates whether another object is equal to this converter.
   *