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>

/**
 * 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.
     */

      "    signature {"
      "      name: 'AddVariablesFunction'"
      "      input_arg {"
      "        name: 'var'"
      "        type: DT_RESOURCE"
      "      }"
      "      output_arg {"
      "        name: 'sum'"
      "        type: DT_FLOAT"
      "      }"
      "    }"
      "    node_def {"
      "      name: 'read0'"
      "      op: 'ReadVariableOp'"
      "      input: 'var'"

appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = console
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = [%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c] [%node_name]%marker %m%n

# Do not log at all if it is not really critical - we're in a benchmark
rootLogger.level = error

		if err != nil {
			err = msgp.WrapError(err)
			return
		}
		switch msgp.UnsafeString(field) {
		case "Type":
			{
				var zb0002 string
				zb0002, err = dc.ReadString()
				if err != nil {
					err = msgp.WrapError(err, "Type")
					return
				}
				z.Type = BatchKeyRotationType(zb0002)
			}
		case "Key":
			z.Key, err = dc.ReadString()
			if err != nil {