While there are competing ways to represent absence (`Optional`, "Null Object" pattern, method overloads),
it is unlikely that we'll be able to remove `null` entirely.

After migrating to Java 8, we can use pluggable type checkers to ensure that our annotations are consistent, 
and there are no missing null checks.

## Decision

Use "NullAway" in JSpecify mode to check for null-related errors in Java code.

   *   <li>{@code proxy.toString()} delegates to {@link AbstractInvocationHandler#toString}
   *   <li>{@code proxy.equals(argument)} returns true if:
   *       <ul>
   *         <li>{@code proxy} and {@code argument} are of the same type
   *         <li>and {@link AbstractInvocationHandler#equals} returns true for the {@link
   *             InvocationHandler} of {@code argument}
   *       </ul>

   * Entry instances that are either live "read-through" views to the Multiset, or immutable
   * snapshots. Note that this type is unrelated to the similarly-named type {@code Map.Entry}.
   *
   * @since 2.0
   */
  interface Entry<E extends @Nullable Object> {

    /**

/**
 * Validation annotation for URI type constraints.
 * This annotation validates URI strings based on specified protocol types.
 */
@Target({ METHOD, FIELD, ANNOTATION_TYPE, CONSTRUCTOR, PARAMETER })
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Constraint(validatedBy = UriTypeValidator.class)
public @interface UriType {

    /**
     * Specifies the protocol type to validate against.
     *
     * @return the protocol type

        AvChannelBindings avChannelBindings = new AvChannelBindings(testHash);

        assertEquals(AvPair.MsvAvChannelBindings, avChannelBindings.getType(), "Type should be MsvAvChannelBindings");
        assertArrayEquals(testHash, avChannelBindings.getRaw(), "Value should match the provided hash");
    }

    /**
     * Test that the constructor handles a null channel binding hash.

            const type = line.getAttribute(this.pfx);
            const delay = line.getAttribute(`${this.pfx}-delay`) || this.lineDelay;

            if (type == 'input') {
                line.setAttribute(`${this.pfx}-cursor`, this.cursor);
                await this.type(line);
                await this._wait(delay);
            }

            else if (type == 'progress') {

  /**
   * Sets the default value for {@code type}, when dummy value for a parameter of the same type
   * needs to be created in order to invoke a method or constructor. The default value isn't used in
   * testing {@link Object#equals} because more than one sample instances are needed for testing
   * inequality.
   */
  protected final <T> void setDefault(Class<T> type, T value) {
    tester.setDefault(type, value);
  }

  /**

    /**
     * Time encoding type: 1970 epoch, 32-bit seconds, big-endian.
     */
    public static final int TIME_1970_SEC_32BE = 1;

    /**
     * Time encoding type: 1970 epoch, 32-bit seconds, little-endian.
     */
    public static final int TIME_1970_SEC_32LE = 2;

    /**
     * Time encoding type: 1904 epoch, 32-bit seconds, big-endian.
     */

ations | indent 4 }} {{- end }} spec: {{- if (or (eq .Values.service.type "ClusterIP" "") (empty .Values.service.type)) }} type: ClusterIP {{- if not (empty .Values.service.clusterIP) }} clusterIP: {{ .Values.service.clusterIP }} {{end}} {{- else if eq .Values.service.type "LoadBalancer" }} type: {{ .Values.service.type }} loadBalancerIP: {{ default "" .Values.service.loadBalancerIP }} {{- else }} type: {{ .Values.service.type }} {{- end }} ports: - name: {{ $scheme }} port: {{ .Values.service.port...

   *     otherwise, a new array of the same runtime type is allocated for this purpose
   * @return an array containing all of the elements in this queue
   * @throws ArrayStoreException if the runtime type of the specified array is not a supertype of
   *     the runtime type of every element in this queue
   * @throws NullPointerException if the specified array is null
   */