* Some public APIs have incorrect nullability annotations (both overly restrictive and overly permissive)

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

are in bit reversed order. var productTable [16]gcmFieldElement // We precompute 16 multiples of H. However, when we do lookups // into this table we'll be using bits from a field element and // therefore the bits will be in the reverse order. So normally one // would expect, say, 4*H to be in index 4 of the table but due to // this bit ordering it will actually be in index 0010 (base 2) = 2. x := gcmFieldElement{ byteorder.BEUint64(H[:8]), byteorder.BEUint64(H[8:]), } productTable[reverseBits(1)]...

    public Collection<V> values() {
      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));
      /* TODO: verify that the Collection is also synchronized? */
      return delegate.values();
    }

    @Override
    public Set<Cell<R, C, V>> cellSet() {
      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));
      return delegate.cellSet();
    }

    @Override
    public Map<R, V> column(C columnKey) {
      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));

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                    Thread.sleep(10);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    // ignore
                }
                metadataFile.delete(); // if this fails, forget about it, we'll try to overwrite it anyway so no need
                // to delete on exit
            }
        } else if (metadataFile.exists()) {
            try (InputStream input = Files.newInputStream(metadataFile.toPath())) {

                logger.debug("Lifecycle {}", lifecycle);
            }
            lifecyclesPrinted = true;
        }

        // If people are going to make their own lifecycles then we need to tell people how to namespace them correctly
        // so that they don't interfere with internally defined lifecycles.

        Map<String, Lifecycle> phaseToLifecycleMap = new HashMap<>();

Das bedeutet, dass, wenn Sie den Artikel `bar` aktualisieren wollen, mittels `PUT` und folgendem Body:

```Python
{
    "name": "Barz",
    "price": 3,
    "description": None,
}
```

weil das bereits gespeicherte Attribut `"tax": 20.2` nicht enthalten ist, das Eingabemodell den Defaultwert `"tax": 10.5` erhalten würde.

Und die Daten würden mit diesem „neuen“ `tax` von `10.5` gespeichert werden.

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