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public interface InheritanceAssembler {

    /**
     * Merges values from the specified parent model into the given child model. Implementations are expected to keep
     * parent and child completely decoupled by injecting deep copies of objects into the child rather than the original
     * objects from the parent.
     *
     * @param child The child model into which to merge the values inherited from the parent, must not be

   * merge does not affect its value. For example, if {@code rangeMap} had one entry {@code [1, 5]
   * => 3} then {@code rangeMap.merge(Range.closed(0,2), 3, Math::max)} could yield a map with the
   * entries {@code [0, 1) => 3, [1, 2] => 3, (2, 5] => 3}.
   *
   * @since 28.1
   */
  void merge(
      Range<K> range,
      @Nullable V value,

- `MergeDefaultEvictionSettings` indicates that defaults for the evictionHard, evictionSoft, evictionSoftGracePeriod, and evictionMinimumReclaim fields should be merged into values specified for those fields in this configuration. Signals specified in this configuration take precedence. Signals not specified in this configuration inherit their defaults. ([#127577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127577),...

  }

  /** Merges [settings] into this peer's settings and sends them to the remote peer. */
  @Throws(IOException::class)
  fun setSettings(settings: Settings) {
    writer.withLock {
      withLock {
        if (isShutdown) {
          throw ConnectionShutdownException()
        }
        okHttpSettings.merge(settings)
      }
      writer.settings(settings)
    }

- Enhanced discovery response to support merged API groups/resources from all peer apiservers when UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy feature is enabled ([#133648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133648), [@richabanker](https://github.com/richabanker)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud...

  public void testAbsent() {
    assertEquals(
        "Map.merge(absent, value, function) should return value",
        v3(),
        getMap()
            .merge(
                k3(),
                v3(),
                (oldV, newV) -> {
                  throw new AssertionFailedError(
                      "Should not call merge function if key was absent");
                }));
    expectAdded(e3());
  }

  public void testAbsent() {
    assertEquals(
        "Map.merge(absent, value, function) should return value",
        v3(),
        getMap()
            .merge(
                k3(),
                v3(),
                (oldV, newV) -> {
                  throw new AssertionFailedError(
                      "Should not call merge function if key was absent");
                }));
    expectAdded(e3());
  }

        // don't merge
    }

    @Override
    protected void mergeBuildBase_Resources(
            BuildBase.Builder builder,
            BuildBase target,
            BuildBase source,
            boolean sourceDominant,
            Map<Object, Object> context) {
        // don't merge
    }

    @Override
    protected void mergeBuildBase_TestResources(

    @Test
    void mergeEmptyMetadata() throws Exception {
        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
        assertFalse(metadata.merge(new Metadata()));
    }

    @Test
    void mergeDifferentGAV() throws Exception {
        // merge implicitly assumes that merge is only called on the same GAV and does not perform any validation here!
        Metadata source = new Metadata();
        source.setArtifactId("source-artifact");