return asImmutableList(array);
  }

  /** Views the array as an immutable list. Checks for nulls; does not copy. */
  private static <E> ImmutableList<E> construct(Object... elements) {
    return asImmutableList(checkElementsNotNull(elements));
  }

  /**
   * Views the array as an immutable list. Does not check for nulls; does not copy.
   *
   * <p>The array must be internally created.
   */

       * we're copying into a `contents` array whose type allows it to contain nulls. Still, it's
       * worth noting that we promise not to put nulls into the array in the first `size` elements.
       * We uphold that promise here because our callers promise that `elements` will not contain
       * nulls in its first `n` elements.
       */
      System.arraycopy(elements, 0, contents, size, n);
      size += n;

    assertTrue("add(null) should return true", collection.add(null));
    expectAdded((E) null);
  }

  @CollectionFeature.Require(value = SUPPORTS_ADD, absent = ALLOWS_NULL_VALUES)
  public void testAdd_nullUnsupported() {
    assertThrows(NullPointerException.class, () -> collection.add(null));
    expectUnchanged();
    expectNullMissingWhenNullUnsupported("Should not contain null after unsupported add(null)");
  }

    assertTrue("add(null) should return true", collection.add(null));
    expectAdded((E) null);
  }

  @CollectionFeature.Require(value = SUPPORTS_ADD, absent = ALLOWS_NULL_VALUES)
  public void testAdd_nullUnsupported() {
    assertThrows(NullPointerException.class, () -> collection.add(null));
    expectUnchanged();
    expectNullMissingWhenNullUnsupported("Should not contain null after unsupported add(null)");
  }

    void implementationRejectsNulls() {
        SmbFilenameFilter filter = (dir, name) -> {
            if (dir == null || name == null) {
                throw new NullPointerException("dir and name must be non-null");
            }
            return true;
        };

        NullPointerException npe1 = assertThrows(NullPointerException.class, () -> filter.accept(null, "x"));

  /**
   * Visits the given types. Null types are ignored. This allows subclasses to call {@code
   * visit(parameterizedType.getOwnerType())} safely without having to check nulls.
   */
  public final void visit(@Nullable Type... types) {
    for (Type type : types) {
      if (type == null || !visited.add(type)) {
        // null owner type, or already visited;
        continue;
      }

      for (Object element : contents) {
        if (element == null) {
          throw new NullPointerException();
        }
      }
    }
  }

  @Override
  public int size() {
    return contents.length;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean contains(@Nullable Object object) {
    if (!allowNulls) {
      // behave badly
      if (object == null) {
        throw new NullPointerException();
      }
    }

  }

  /*
   * All the ContiguousSet generators below manually reject nulls here. In principle, we'd like to
   * defer that to Range, since it's ContiguousSet.create() that's used to create the sets. However,
   * that gets messy here, and we already have null tests for Range.
   */

  /*
   * These generators also rely on consecutive integer inputs (not necessarily in order, but no

  @Override
  public boolean contains(@Nullable Object target) {
    @Nullable Object[] table = this.table;
    if (target == null || table.length == 0) {
      return false;
    }
    for (int i = Hashing.smearedHash(target); ; i++) {
      i &= mask;
      Object candidate = table[i];
      if (candidate == null) {
        return false;
      } else if (candidate.equals(target)) {
        return true;
      }
    }
  }

   * href="https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-6409434">JDK-6409434</a> is fixed. It's unclear
   * whether nulls were to be permitted or forbidden, but presumably the eventual fix will be to
   * permit them, as it seems more likely that code would depend on that behavior than on the other.
   * Thus, we say the bug is in set(), which fails to support null.
   */
  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // reflection