@SuppressWarnings({"unchecked", "rawtypes"})
                  public Map<Class, Impl> create(Object... elements) {
                    MutableClassToInstanceMap<Impl> map = MutableClassToInstanceMap.create();
                    for (Object object : elements) {
                      Entry<Class, Impl> entry = (Entry<Class, Impl>) object;
                      map.putInstance(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
                    }

/**
 * Implementation for {@link FilteredMultimap#values()}.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
final class FilteredMultimapValues<K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object>
    extends AbstractCollection<V> {
  @Weak private final FilteredMultimap<K, V> multimap;

  FilteredMultimapValues(FilteredMultimap<K, V> multimap) {
    this.multimap = checkNotNull(multimap);
  }

    /**
     * @return a <code>Settings</code> object from the user settings file.
     * @throws IOException if any
     * @throws XmlPullParserException if any
     */
    Settings buildSettings() throws IOException, XmlPullParserException;

    /**
     * @param useCachedSettings if true, doesn't reload the user settings
     * @return a <code>Settings</code> object from the user settings file.
     * @throws IOException if any

                    final ResultData resultData = transformer.transform(responseData);
                    final Object rawData = resultData.getRawData();
                    if (rawData != null) {
                        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                        final Map<String, Object> responseDataMap = (Map<String, Object>) rawData;
                        mergeResponseData(dataMap, responseDataMap);
                    } else {

    }

    @Override
    public void acceptAllColumnMap(Entity entity, Map<String, ? extends Object> allColumnMap) {
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> extractPrimaryKeyMap(Entity entity) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> extractAllColumnMap(Entity entity) {
        return null;

    }

    @Override
    public void acceptAllColumnMap(Entity entity, Map<String, ? extends Object> allColumnMap) {
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> extractPrimaryKeyMap(Entity entity) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> extractAllColumnMap(Entity entity) {
        return null;

   *
   * @since 14.0
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // ImmediateCancelledFuture can work with any type
  public static <V extends @Nullable Object> ListenableFuture<V> immediateCancelledFuture() {
    ListenableFuture<Object> instance = ImmediateCancelledFuture.INSTANCE;
    if (instance != null) {
      return (ListenableFuture<V>) instance;
    }
    return new ImmediateCancelledFuture<>();
  }

        if (str == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return new String[] { str };
    }

    protected LocalDateTime toLocalDateTime(Object value) {
        return DfTypeUtil.toLocalDateTime(value);
    }

    protected Date toDate(Object value) {
        return DfTypeUtil.toDate(value);
    }

    protected SearchHits getSearchHits(final SearchResponse response) {

    assertEquals(2 * values.size(), alternatingKeysAndValues.length);
    for (int i = 0; i < map.size(); i++) {
      Object expectedKey = alternatingKeysAndValues[2 * i];
      Object expectedValue = alternatingKeysAndValues[2 * i + 1];
      Entry<Object, Object> expectedEntry = immutableEntry(expectedKey, expectedValue);
      assertEquals(expectedEntry, entries.get(i));
      assertEquals(expectedKey, keys.get(i));

  // Always equal is a valid total ordering. And it works for any Object.
  private static final class AlwaysEqual extends Ordering<@Nullable Object>
      implements Serializable {
    private static final AlwaysEqual INSTANCE = new AlwaysEqual();

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("UnusedVariable") // intentionally weird Comparator
    public int compare(@Nullable Object o1, @Nullable Object o2) {
      return 0;
    }

    @Override