"Operation" here refers to one of the HTTP "methods".

One of:

* `POST`
* `GET`
* `PUT`
* `DELETE`

...and the more exotic ones:

* `OPTIONS`
* `HEAD`
* `PATCH`
* `TRACE`

In the HTTP protocol, you can communicate to each path using one (or more) of these "methods".

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When building APIs, you normally use these specific HTTP methods to perform a specific action.

    implements RowSortedTable<R, C, V> {
  /*
   * TODO(jlevy): Consider adding headTable, tailTable, and subTable methods,
   * which return a Table view with rows keys in a given range. Create a
   * RowSortedTable subinterface with the revised methods?
   */

  StandardRowSortedTable(
      SortedMap<R, Map<C, V>> backingMap, Supplier<? extends Map<C, V>> factory) {
    super(backingMap, factory);

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 * Multiset#entrySet()} method, plus optionally overriding {@link #add(Object, int)} and {@link
 * #remove(Object, int)} to enable modifications to the multiset.
 *
 * <p>The {@link #count} and {@link #size} implementations all iterate across the set returned by
 * {@link Multiset#entrySet()}, as do many methods acting on the set returned by {@link
 * #elementSet()}. Override those methods for better performance.
 *

 * <h3>Extension</h3>
 *
 * If you want a class like {@code FluentFuture} but with extra methods, we recommend declaring your
 * own subclass of {@link ListenableFuture}, complete with a method like {@link #from} to adapt an
 * existing {@code ListenableFuture}, implemented atop a {@link ForwardingListenableFuture} that
 * forwards to that future and adds the desired methods.
 */
@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault