*       access, and lastly speed of creation.
 *   <li>The {@code copyOf} methods will sometimes recognize that the actual copy operation is
 *       unnecessary; for example, {@code copyOf(copyOf(anArrayList))} should copy the data only
 *       once. This reduces the expense of habitually making defensive copies at API boundaries.

    }

    /**
     * Compares two model versions.
     *
     * @param first the first version.
     * @param second the second version.
     * @return negative if the first version is newer than the second version, zero if they are the same or positive if
     * the second version is the newer.
     */
    private static int compareModelVersions(String first, String second) {

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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

            # setting the min Pydantic to v2.12.3 that adds asdict()
            field_dict = asdict(self.field_info)
            annotated_args = (
                field_dict["annotation"],
                *field_dict["metadata"],
                # this FieldInfo needs to be created again so that it doesn't include
                # the old field info metadata and only the rest of the attributes

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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

   * we don't include the method, then the compiler will complain that an abstract method is
   * unimplemented. So instead we use a dynamic proxy to get an implementation. If the method being
   * called on the {@code TypeVariable} instance has the same name as one of the public methods of
   * {@link TypeVariableImpl}, the proxy calls the same method on its instance of {@code

  /**
   * Removes a number of occurrences of the specified element from this multiset. If the multiset
   * contains fewer than this number of occurrences to begin with, all occurrences will be removed.
   *
   * @param element the element whose occurrences should be removed
   * @param occurrences the number of occurrences of the element to remove
   * @return the count of the element before the operation; possibly zero

   * we don't include the method, then the compiler will complain that an abstract method is
   * unimplemented. So instead we use a dynamic proxy to get an implementation. If the method being
   * called on the {@code TypeVariable} instance has the same name as one of the public methods of
   * {@link TypeVariableImpl}, the proxy calls the same method on its instance of {@code

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 * Copyright (C) 2019 Square, Inc.
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 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
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 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,