* However it is acceptable to return the same array multiple times (even for different input
   * characters).
   *
   * @param c the character to escape
   * @return the replacement characters, or {@code null} if no escaping was required
   */
  // TODO(dbeaumont,cpovirk): Rename this something better once refactoring done
  @CheckForNull

Once the **patch** is successfully applied, developer must run tests to validate the fix that was backported by running following tests, locally.

Unit tests

```
λ make test
```

    return a == b || (a != null && a.equals(b));
  }

  // This one-liner saves us from some ugly casts
  protected Entry<K, V> entry(K key, V value) {
    return Helpers.mapEntry(key, value);
  }

  @Override
  protected void expectContents(Collection<Entry<K, V>> expected) {
    // TODO: move this to invariant checks once the appropriate hook exists?
    super.expectContents(expected);

  Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall:  in
fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took
up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

  Poor Alice!  It was as much as she could do, lying down on one
side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get
through was more hopeless than ever:  she sat down and began to
cry again.

  /*
   * TODO(b/242884182): Figure out why this helps produce the same class file when we compile most
   * of common.collect a second time with the results of the first compilation on the classpath. Or
   * just back this out once we stop doing that (which we'll do after our internal GWT setup
   * changes).
   */
  @Override
  public ImmutableMap<Object, Collection<Object>> asMap() {
    return super.asMap();
  }

  ConsumingQueueIterator(Queue<T> queue) {
    this.queue = checkNotNull(queue);
  }

  @Override
  @CheckForNull
  protected T computeNext() {
    // TODO(b/192579700): Use a ternary once it no longer confuses our nullness checker.
    if (queue.isEmpty()) {
      return endOfData();
    }
    return queue.remove();
  }

  ConsumingQueueIterator(Queue<T> queue) {
    this.queue = checkNotNull(queue);
  }

  @Override
  @CheckForNull
  protected T computeNext() {
    // TODO(b/192579700): Use a ternary once it no longer confuses our nullness checker.
    if (queue.isEmpty()) {
      return endOfData();
    }
    return queue.remove();
  }

package com.google.common.collect;

import java.util.Random;

/**
 * Utility class for being able to seed a {@link Random} value with a passed in seed from a
 * benchmark parameter.
 *
 * <p>TODO: Remove this class once Caliper has a better way.
 *
 * @author Nicholaus Shupe
 */
public final class SpecialRandom extends Random {
  public static SpecialRandom valueOf(String s) {

package com.google.common.collect;

import java.util.Random;

/**
 * Utility class for being able to seed a {@link Random} value with a passed in seed from a
 * benchmark parameter.
 *
 * <p>TODO: Remove this class once Caliper has a better way.
 *
 * @author Nicholaus Shupe
 */
public final class SpecialRandom extends Random {
  public static SpecialRandom valueOf(String s) {

    // unless it's actually going to be used; validate() is called for all set method calls, so it
    // needs to be fast.
    // (We could instead generate the message once, when the set is created, but zero is better.)
    if (!validator.get()) {
      throw new IllegalStateException(errorMessage.get());
    }
  }