This can be reading from Kubernetes and writing other objects back, writing to proxies over XDS, etc.

Unfortunately, writing controllers is very error prone, even for seemingly simple cases.
To work around this, Istio has a variety of abstractions meant to make writing controllers easier.

## Clients

  public final <T extends @Nullable Object> T[] toArray(T[] other) {
    checkNotNull(other);
    int size = size();

    if (other.length < size) {
      Object[] internal = internalArray();
      if (internal != null) {
        return Platform.copy(internal, internalArrayStart(), internalArrayEnd(), other);
      }
      other = ObjectArrays.newArray(other, size);
    } else if (other.length > size) {
      other[size] = null;
    }

Java's built-in serialization mechanism is often slower compared to other serialization solutions.
This is due to Java's use of reflection and the need to maintain a lot of metadata.

- **Size of Serialized Data:**
Java serialization tends to produce larger serialized objects because it includes class metadata and other overhead.

- **Flexibility and Control:**

  - [Changelog since v1.13.11](#changelog-since-v11311)
    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes)
- [v1.13.11](#v11311)
  - [Downloads for v1.13.11](#downloads-for-v11311)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-1)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-1)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-1)
  - [Changelog since v1.13.10](#changelog-since-v11310)
    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)
- [v1.13.10](#v11310)

    }

    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    @Override
    Builder<E> combine(ImmutableSet.Builder<E> builder) {
      copyIfNecessary();
      Builder<E> other = (Builder<E>) builder;
      for (int i = 0; i < other.n; i++) {
        add(other.elements[i]);
      }
      return this;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a newly-created {@code ImmutableSortedSet} based on the contents of the {@code

                    Set<String> set = newHashSet(elements);
                    Set<String> other = newHashSet("wz", "xq");
                    set.addAll(other);
                    other.add("pq");
                    return Sets.difference(set, other);
                  }
                })
            .named("set - set")
            .withFeatures(
                CollectionSize.ANY,

      }
      return lhs.compareTo(rhs);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object obj) {
      if (obj instanceof NullsBefore) {
        NullsBefore other = (NullsBefore) obj;
        return justAfterNull.equals(other.justAfterNull);
      }
      return false;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
      return justAfterNull.hashCode();
    }
  }

 * with any other implementation of this interface.
 *
 * <p>If you have your own graph implementation based around a custom node type {@code MyNode},
 * which has a method {@code getParents()} that retrieves its predecessors in a graph:
 *
 * <pre>{@code
 * someGraphAlgorithm(startNode, MyNode::getParents);
 * }</pre>
 *

   *
   * @param formal The type whose type variables or itself is mapped to other type(s). It's almost
   *     always a bug if {@code formal} isn't a type variable and contains no type variable. Make
   *     sure you are passing the two parameters in the right order.
   * @param actual The type that the formal type variable(s) are mapped to. It can be or contain yet
   *     other type variables, in which case these type variables will be further resolved if

                    Set<String> set = newHashSet(elements);
                    Set<String> other = newHashSet("wz", "xq");
                    set.addAll(other);
                    other.add("pq");
                    return Sets.difference(set, other);
                  }
                })
            .named("set - set")
            .withFeatures(
                CollectionSize.ANY,