From d36c0c538a545fac5d9db6ba65c525246d4efa95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Feng Xiao <xfxyjwf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:32:48 -0700
Subject: Down-integrate from google3.

---
 java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Internal.java | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

(limited to 'java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Internal.java')

diff --git a/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Internal.java b/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Internal.java
index c234559c..36bdece3 100644
--- a/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Internal.java
+++ b/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Internal.java
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ public final class Internal {
   static final Charset UTF_8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
   static final Charset ISO_8859_1 = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
 
+  /**
+   * Throws an appropriate {@link NullPointerException} if the given objects is {@code null}.
+   */
+  static <T> T checkNotNull(T obj) {
+    if (obj == null) {
+      throw new NullPointerException();
+    }
+    return obj;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Throws an appropriate {@link NullPointerException} if the given objects is {@code null}.
    */
@@ -420,6 +430,11 @@ public final class Internal {
       CodedInputStream.newInstance(EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY);
 
 
+  /** Helper method to merge two MessageLite instances. */
+  static Object mergeMessage(Object destination, Object source) {
+    return ((MessageLite) destination).toBuilder().mergeFrom((MessageLite) source).buildPartial();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Provides an immutable view of {@code List<T>} around a {@code List<F>}.
    *
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