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If you had worked with IntelliJ IDEA for a while, you’re most likely aware of @Nullable, @NotNull annotations which allow you to formally specify method contracts and validate whether these contracts are met, and @NonNls annotation which is helpful when you want to exclude strings from the internationalization process.However, there’re several cases when direct annotating [...]