From 50c83cf8b7d96d05889838f8458aba788be65122 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dagger Team <java-team-github-bot@google.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 09:44:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Propagate Nullability in private methods

RELNOTES=n/a
PiperOrigin-RevId: 944549262
---
 .../writing/PrivateMethodRequestRepresentation.java        | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dagger-compiler/main/java/dagger/internal/codegen/writing/PrivateMethodRequestRepresentation.java b/dagger-compiler/main/java/dagger/internal/codegen/writing/PrivateMethodRequestRepresentation.java
index 707d02ac737..1dec354fb16 100644
--- a/dagger-compiler/main/java/dagger/internal/codegen/writing/PrivateMethodRequestRepresentation.java
+++ b/dagger-compiler/main/java/dagger/internal/codegen/writing/PrivateMethodRequestRepresentation.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import dagger.internal.codegen.compileroption.CompilerOptions;
 import dagger.internal.codegen.model.RequestKind;
 import dagger.internal.codegen.writing.ComponentImplementation.ShardImplementation;
+import dagger.internal.codegen.xprocessing.NullableTypeNames;
 import dagger.internal.codegen.xprocessing.XExpressionType;
 
 /**
@@ -105,7 +106,11 @@ private String methodName() {
                   !shardImplementation.isShardClassPrivate()
                       ? ImmutableSet.of(PRIVATE)
                       : ImmutableSet.of())
-              .returns(returnType().asTypeName())
+              .returns(
+                  NullableTypeNames.asNullableTypeName(
+                      returnType().asTypeName(),
+                      binding.nullability(),
+                      compilerOptions))
               .addStatement(
                   "return %L",
                   wrappedRequestRepresentation