Returns a collector for an {@link ImmutableMap}.

Issue a compilation error and abandon the processing of this class. This does not prevent the processing of other classes. @param e the element to wh

Resolves a {@link VariableElement} parameter to a method or constructor based on the given container, or a member of a class. For parameters to a meth

Decodes the given string, respelling class names appropriately. The text is scanned for tokens like {@code `java.util.Locale`} or {@code `«java.util.L

Returns an expression that is true if the given property is required but has not been set. Returns null if the property is not required.

Returns the visibility of the given {@link Element}. While package and module elements don't technically have a visibility associated with them, this

Returns the ordered collection of properties to be generated by AutoValue. Each key is a property name, and the corresponding value is the getter meth

Returns true if all types referenced by the given element are defined. The exact meaning of this depends on the kind of element. For packages, it mean

Encodes the given type and its type annotations. The class comment for {@link TypeEncoder} covers the details of annotation encoding.

Returns code to indicate that the given property has been set, if assigning to the property field is not enough. For reference (non-primitive) propert

Returns the name of the property as it should be used when declaring identifiers (fields and parameters). If the original getter method was {@code foo

Assert that the fake program returned by fakeProgramForTypes has the given list of imports and the given list of spellings. Here, "spellings" means th

A string describing what sort of Auto this is, {@code "AutoValue"} or {@code "AutoBuilder"}.

The parameters that are passed to the {@code create} method.

Returns a {@link ExecutableType} if the {@link TypeMirror} represents an executable type such as a method, constructor, or initializer or throws an {@

Returns an {@link Equivalence} for {@link AnnotationMirror} as some implementations delegate equality tests to {@link Object#equals} whereas the docum

Returns the name of the package that the given type is in. If the type is in the default (unnamed) package then the name is the empty string.

Issue a compilation warning. @param e the element to which it pertains @param format the format string for the text of the warning @param args argume

Returns true if the given type is fully defined. This means that the type itself is defined, as are any types it references, such as any type argument

Returns a {@link ArrayType} if the {@link TypeMirror} represents an array or throws an {@link IllegalArgumentException}.

Returns the {@code propertyName} with its first character in lower case.

Returns true if the given {@link Element} instance is a {@link TypeElement}. <p>This method is functionally equivalent to an {@code instanceof} check

The proxy type the original unserializable type will be mapped to.

Returns the result of substituting the variables defined by the fields of this class (a concrete subclass of TemplateVars) into the template returned

Equivalent to {@code visit(type, sb)} or {@code type.accept(sb)}, except that it fixes a bug with javac versions up to JDK 8, whereby if the type is a

The set of fully-qualified annotation type names processed by this step. <p>Warning: If the returned names are not names of annotations, they'll be i

Make an instance where the default {@code @Nullable} type annotation is discovered by looking for methods whose parameter or return types have such an

Returns the {@link AnnotationMirror}'s map of {@link AnnotationValue} indexed by {@link ExecutableElement}, supplying default values from the annotati

An alternate implementation of {@link Elements#getPackageOf} that does not require an {@link Elements} instance. @throws NullPointerException if {@co

Returns an appropriate annotation spelling to indicate the nullability of an element. If the return value is a non-empty Optional, that indicates that

Returns the position at which this token ends and the next token begins.