*
     * @param str
     *            The string to convert.
     * @param locale
     *            The locale.
     * @return The converted {@link Date}.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    protected static Date toDate(final String str, final Locale locale) {
        for (final DateFormat format : MultiIterator.iterable(new DateFormatIterator(locale), new PlainDateFormatIterator(str, locale))) {

        oos.close();

        // Deserialize
        ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray());
        ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(bais);
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        TestAccessResultData<String> deserialized = (TestAccessResultData<String>) ois.readObject();
        ois.close();

        // Verify
        assertEquals("test data", new String(deserialized.getData()));

        });
    }

    protected <BUILDER> int[] delegateBatchRequest(final List<? extends Entity> entityList, Function<EsAbstractEntity, BUILDER> call) {
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        final BulkList<? extends Entity, BUILDER> bulkList = (BulkList<? extends Entity, BUILDER>) entityList;
        final RequestOptionCall<BUILDER> builderEntityCall = bulkList.getEntityCall();

    setImplementation(ThreadFactory.class, Dummies.DummyThreadFactory.class);
    setImplementation(Executor.class, Dummies.DummyExecutor.class);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // it's a subtype map
  private static <T> @Nullable Class<? extends T> getImplementation(Class<T> type) {
    return (Class<? extends T>) implementations.get(type);
  }

    assertThat(set0).isEmpty();

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // using a legacy comparable
    ImmutableSortedSet<LegacyComparable> set1 = ImmutableSortedSet.of(LegacyComparable.Z);
    assertThat(set1).containsExactly(LegacyComparable.Z);

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // using a legacy comparable
    ImmutableSortedSet<LegacyComparable> set2 =

     * @return a list of strings representing the given object
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the object is not a string or a list
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static List<String> getAsList(final Object value) {
        if (value == null) {
            return new ArrayList<>();
        }

        if (value instanceof String strValue) {

           * handle either reference, so it's safe to circumvent compile-time type checking.
           */
          @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
          Equivalence<Object> equivalence = (Equivalence<Object>) this.equivalence;
          return equivalence.equivalent(this.reference, that.reference);
        }
      }
      return false;
    }

		if mtimeValid || etagOnly {
			fmt.Fprintf(h, "%v", meta.XLV1)
			for _, part := range meta.Parts {
				fmt.Fprintf(h, "part.%d", part.Number)
				fmt.Fprintf(h, "part.%d", part.Size)
			}
			// Previously we checked if we had quorum on DataDir value.
			// We have removed this check to allow reading objects with different DataDir
			// values in a few drives (due to a rebalance-stop race bug)

    ImmutableSortedMultiset<String> unused =
        ImmutableSortedMultiset.copyOf(Ordering.natural(), toCopy);
    assertTrue(toCopy.toArrayCalled);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public void testCopyOfSortedDefensiveCopy() {
    // Depending on JDK version, either toArray() or toArray(T[]) may be called... use this class
    // rather than mocking to ensure that one of those methods is called.

    fun Response.hasVaryAll(): Boolean = "*" in headers.varyFields()

    /**
     * Returns the names of the request headers that need to be checked for equality when caching.
     */
    private fun Headers.varyFields(): Set<String> {
      var result: MutableSet<String>? = null
      for (i in 0 until size) {