Annotation Type MayOptionallyUse

@Target(PARAMETER)
@Retention(SOURCE)
public @interface MayOptionallyUse

Indicates that a parameter to a placeholder method is not required to be used in the placeholder's implementation. For example, the pattern

 abstract class Utf8Bytes {
  @Placeholder abstract void handleException(
      @MayOptionallyUse UnsupportedEncodingException e);
  @Placeholder abstract void useString(String str);
  @BeforeTemplate void before(byte[] array) {
     try {
       useString(new String(array, "UTF_8"));
     } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
       handleException(e);
     }
   }
  @AfterTemplate void after(byte[] array) {
     useString(new String(array, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
   }
 }
 

would match even if the catch statement were empty, or didn't refer to e.