public final boolean trySetAccessible() {
    // We can't call accessibleObject.trySetAccessible since that was added in Java 9 and this code
    // should work on Java 8. So we emulate it this way.
    try {
      accessibleObject.setAccessible(true);
      return true;
    } catch (Exception e) { // sneaky checked exception
      return false;
    }
  }