* there's no way to assign a {@code @Nullable T} to a field {@code T foo;} and instruct the
   * analysis that that means "plain {@code T}" rather than the inferred type {@code @Nullable T}.
   * (And even if annotations on local variables were permitted as an optional hint, no annotation
   * would be the right tool for the job here: {@code @Nullable} is the annotation that we're trying

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object o) {
      return false;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
      return super.hashCode();
    }
  }

  /** Test class that returns true if the test object is null */
  private static class InvalidEqualsNullObject {

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object o) {
      return o == this || o == null;
    }

      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));
      return super.containsValue(value);
    }

    @Override
    public @Nullable V get(Object key) {
      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));
      return super.get(key);
    }

    @Override
    public @Nullable V put(K key, V value) {
      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));
      return super.put(key, value);
    }

    @Override

  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  @Override
  public @Nullable V remove(@Nullable Object key) {
    return delegate().remove(key);
  }

  @Override
  public void clear() {
    delegate().clear();
  }

  @Override
  public boolean containsKey(@Nullable Object key) {
    return delegate().containsKey(key);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean containsValue(@Nullable Object value) {
    return delegate().containsValue(value);

  }

  /**
   * @since 28.1
   */
  @Override
  public void merge(
      Range<K> range,
      @Nullable V value,
      BiFunction<? super V, ? super @Nullable V, ? extends @Nullable V> remappingFunction) {
    checkNotNull(range);
    checkNotNull(remappingFunction);

    if (range.isEmpty()) {
      return;
    }
    split(range.lowerBound);

    return result;
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> firstEntry() {
    return delegate().firstEntry();
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> lastEntry() {
    return delegate().lastEntry();
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> pollFirstEntry() {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> pollLastEntry() {

      this.entryIterable = (Iterable) entryIterable;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean containsKey(@Nullable Object key) {
      return get(key) != null;
    }

    @Override
    public @Nullable V get(@Nullable Object key) {
      if (key instanceof Range) {
        Range<?> range = (Range<?>) key;

    return result;
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> firstEntry() {
    return delegate().firstEntry();
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> lastEntry() {
    return delegate().lastEntry();
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> pollFirstEntry() {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> pollLastEntry() {

  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E lower(E element) {
    return forward.higher(element);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E floor(E element) {
    return forward.ceiling(element);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E ceiling(E element) {
    return forward.floor(element);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E higher(E element) {
    return forward.lower(element);
  }

import java.util.SortedMap;
import org.jspecify.annotations.NullMarked;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Creates sorted maps, containing sample elements, to be tested.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
@NullMarked
public interface TestSortedMapGenerator<K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object>
    extends TestMapGenerator<K, V> {
  @Override
  SortedMap<K, V> create(Object... elements);