Package com.google.common.collect

Class ForwardingNavigableMap<K,​V>

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Map<K,​V>, NavigableMap<K,​V>, SortedMap<K,​V>
    public abstract class ForwardingNavigableMap<K,​V>
extends ForwardingSortedMap<K,​V>
implements NavigableMap<K,​V>
    A navigable map which forwards all its method calls to another navigable map. Subclasses should override one or more methods to modify the behavior of the backing map as desired per the decorator pattern.

    Warning: The methods of ForwardingNavigableMap forward indiscriminately to the methods of the delegate. For example, overriding ForwardingMap.put(K, V) alone will not change the behavior of ForwardingMap.putAll(java.util.Map<? extends K, ? extends V>), which can lead to unexpected behavior. In this case, you should override putAll as well, either providing your own implementation, or delegating to the provided standardPutAll method.

    Each of the standard methods uses the map's comparator (or the natural ordering of the elements, if there is no comparator) to test element equality. As a result, if the comparator is not consistent with equals, some of the standard implementations may violate the Map contract.

    The standard methods and the collection views they return are not guaranteed to be thread-safe, even when all of the methods that they depend on are thread-safe.

    Since:
    12.0