*
 * @author Kurt Alfred Kluever
 * @since 3.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
public abstract class ForwardingSortedSetMultimap<
        K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object>
    extends ForwardingSetMultimap<K, V> implements SortedSetMultimap<K, V> {

  /** Constructor for use by subclasses. */
  protected ForwardingSortedSetMultimap() {}

  @Override

import java.util.Map;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * An object representing the differences between two maps.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
@DoNotMock("Use Maps.difference")
@GwtCompatible
public interface MapDifference<K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object> {
  /**

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E lower(E element) {
    int index = headIndex(element, false) - 1;
    return (index == -1) ? null : elements.get(index);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E floor(E element) {
    int index = headIndex(element, true) - 1;
    return (index == -1) ? null : elements.get(index);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E ceiling(E element) {

    };
  }

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

  @Override
  public K firstKey() {
    return delegate.firstKey();
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<K, V> floorEntry(K key) {
    return delegate.floorEntry(checkValid(key));
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable K floorKey(K key) {

  }

  private static Iterable<@Nullable Object> iterable(
      @Nullable Object first, @Nullable Object second, @Nullable Object[] rest) {
    checkNotNull(rest);
    return new AbstractList<@Nullable Object>() {
      @Override
      public int size() {
        return rest.length + 2;
      }

      @Override
      public @Nullable Object get(int index) {
        switch (index) {

  @Generates
  static <K, V> Map<K, V> generateMap(@Nullable K key, @Nullable V value) {
    return generateHashdMap(key, value);
  }

  @Generates
  static <K, V> HashMap<K, V> generateHashdMap(@Nullable K key, @Nullable V value) {
    return generateLinkedHashMap(key, value);
  }

  @Generates
  static <K, V> LinkedHashMap<K, V> generateLinkedHashMap(@Nullable K key, @Nullable V value) {

  abstract <R> @Nullable R dummyReturnValue(TypeToken<R> returnType);

  private final class DummyHandler extends AbstractInvocationHandler implements Serializable {
    private final TypeToken<?> interfaceType;

    DummyHandler(TypeToken<?> interfaceType) {
      this.interfaceType = interfaceType;
    }

    @Override
    protected @Nullable Object handleInvocation(

   * 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