From 8a2b2f7fef638b2c19b670daf47bdc9f42e1d479 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: PJ Fanning <fanningpj@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 07:42:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] deprecate unused Nullable class

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@1842684 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/util/Nullable.java | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/util/Nullable.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/util/Nullable.java
index 8c1a24c863..8b64207ef1 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/util/Nullable.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/util/Nullable.java
@@ -17,12 +17,17 @@
 
 package org.apache.poi.openxml4j.util;
 
+import org.apache.poi.util.Removal;
+
 /**
  * An immutable object that could be defined as null.
  *
  * @author Julien Chable
  * @version 0.9
+ * @deprecated No longer used in POI code base, use {@link java.util.Optional} instead
  */
+@Removal(version = "4.2")
+@Deprecated
 public final class Nullable<E> {
 
 	private E value;
-- 
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