@VisibleForTesting final transient @Nullable Object[] alternatingKeysAndValues;
  private final transient int size;

  /*
   * We have some considerable complexity in these create methods because of
   * Builder.buildKeepingLast(). The same Builder might be called with buildKeepingLast() and then
   * buildOrThrow(), or vice versa. So in particular, if we modify alternatingKeysAndValues to

    return wrapList(key, (List<V>) collection, null);
  }

  // Following Javadoc copied from ListMultimap.

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <p>Because the values for a given key may have duplicates and follow the insertion ordering,
   * this method returns a {@link List}, instead of the {@link Collection} specified in the {@link
   * Multimap} interface.
   */
  @Override

  @Override
  int indexOf(@Nullable Object target) {
    if (!contains(target)) {
      return -1;
    }
    // The cast is safe because of the contains check—at least for any reasonable Comparable class.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // requireNonNull is safe because of the contains check.
    C c = (C) requireNonNull(target);
    return (int) domain.distance(first(), c);
  }

  @Override

       * other callers have added to it.
       *
       * This read is guaranteed to get us the right value because we only set this once (here).
       *
       * requireNonNull is safe because either our compareAndSet succeeded or it failed because
       * another thread did it for us.
       */
      seenExceptionsLocal = requireNonNull(seenExceptionsField);
    }

      // Fail fast if there's no response queued up.
      return failFastResponse!!
    }

    val result = responseQueue.take()

    // If take() returned because we're shutting down, then enqueue another dead letter so that any
    // other threads waiting on take() will also return.
    if (result == DEAD_LETTER) responseQueue.add(DEAD_LETTER)

    return result
  }

    arraycopy(array, 0, dst, dstOff, size);
    return dstOff + size;
  }

  // The fake cast to E is safe because the creation methods only allow E's
  @Override
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public E get(int index) {
    checkElementIndex(index, size);
    // requireNonNull is safe because we guarantee that the first `size` elements are non-null.
    return (E) requireNonNull(array[index]);
  }

 * family. <b>Avoid</b> creating a mock or stub {@code Future}. Mock and stub implementations are
 * fragile because they assume that only certain methods will be called and because they often
 * implement subtleties of the API improperly.
 *
 * <p><b>Custom implementation</b>: Avoid implementing {@code ListenableFuture} from scratch. If you

   * have the provided key, an empty collection is returned.
   *
   * <p>Changes to the returned collection will update the underlying multimap, and vice versa.
   *
   * <p>Because a {@code SortedSetMultimap} has unique sorted values for a given key, this method
   * returns a {@link SortedSet}, instead of the {@link Collection} specified in the {@link
   * Multimap} interface.
   */
  @Override

            handleFileUploadException(e);
        }
    }

    protected void prepareElementsHash() { // traditional name
        // #thinking jflute might lazy-loaded be unneeded? because created per request (2024/09/08)
        elementsAll = new HashMap<>();
        elementsText = new HashMap<>();
        elementsFile = new HashMap<>();
    }

      return;
    }

    /*
     * Any of the setException() calls below can fail if the output Future is cancelled between now
     * and then. This means that we're silently swallowing an exception -- maybe even an Error. But
     * this is no worse than what FutureTask does in that situation. Additionally, because the