* "Foo&lt;Bar&gt;"} to prevent {@code "<Bar>"} from being confused with an XML tag. When the
 * resulting XML document is parsed, the parser API will return this text as the original literal
 * string {@code "Foo<Bar>"}.
 *
 * <p>A {@code CharEscaper} instance is required to be stateless, and safe when used concurrently by
 * multiple threads.
 *
 * <p>Popular escapers are defined as constants in classes like {@link

 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Consumers of this annotation include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Kotlin, for which it makes the type-variable usage (a) a Kotlin platform type when the type
 *       argument is non-nullable and (b) nullable when the type argument is nullable. We use this
 *       to "undo" {@link ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault}. It is the best we can do for Kotlin
 *       under our current constraints.

// An API server instance reports the version it can decode and the version it
// encodes objects to when persisting objects in the backend.
message ServerStorageVersion {
  // The ID of the reporting API server.
  optional string apiServerID = 1;

  // The API server encodes the object to this version when persisting it in
  // the backend (e.g., etcd).
  optional string encodingVersion = 2;

 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Consumers of this annotation include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Kotlin, for which it makes the type-variable usage (a) a Kotlin platform type when the type
 *       argument is non-nullable and (b) nullable when the type argument is nullable. We use this
 *       to "undo" {@link ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault}. It is the best we can do for Kotlin
 *       under our current constraints.

 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Consumers of this annotation include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Kotlin, for which it makes the type-variable usage (a) a Kotlin platform type when the type
 *       argument is non-nullable and (b) nullable when the type argument is nullable. We use this
 *       to "undo" {@link ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault}. It is the best we can do for Kotlin
 *       under our current constraints.

 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Consumers of this annotation include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Kotlin, for which it makes the type-variable usage (a) a Kotlin platform type when the type
 *       argument is non-nullable and (b) nullable when the type argument is nullable. We use this
 *       to "undo" {@link ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault}. It is the best we can do for Kotlin
 *       under our current constraints.

 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Consumers of this annotation include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Kotlin, for which it makes the type-variable usage (a) a Kotlin platform type when the type
 *       argument is non-nullable and (b) nullable when the type argument is nullable. We use this
 *       to "undo" {@link ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault}. It is the best we can do for Kotlin
 *       under our current constraints.

 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Consumers of this annotation include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Kotlin, for which it makes the type-variable usage (a) a Kotlin platform type when the type
 *       argument is non-nullable and (b) nullable when the type argument is nullable. We use this
 *       to "undo" {@link ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault}. It is the best we can do for Kotlin
 *       under our current constraints.

   * find it when available. When this is null, use the slow way.
   */
  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // java.lang.reflect
  @CheckForNull
  private static final Method getStackTraceElementMethod = (jla == null) ? null : getGetMethod();

  /**
   * The "getStackTraceDepth" method, only available on some JDKs so we use reflection to find it
   * when available. When this is null, use the slow way.

  /**
   * An object that can capture objects to be closed later, when a {@link ClosingFuture} pipeline is
   * done.
   */
  public static final class DeferredCloser {
    @RetainedWith private final CloseableList list;

    DeferredCloser(CloseableList list) {
      this.list = list;
    }

    /**
     * Captures an object to be closed when a {@link ClosingFuture} pipeline is done.
     *