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package com.google.common.collect;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible;
import com.google.errorprone.annotations.CanIgnoreReturnValue;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * A bimap (or "bidirectional map") is a map that preserves the uniqueness of its values as well as
 * that of its keys. This constraint enables bimaps to support an "inverse view", which is another
 * bimap containing the same entries as this bimap but with reversed keys and values.
 *
 * See the Guava User Guide article on  {@code BiMap}.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
public interface BiMap extends Map {
  // Modification Operations

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given value is already bound to a different key in this
   *     bimap. The bimap will remain unmodified in this event. To avoid this exception, call {@link
   *     #forcePut} instead.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  @Override
  @Nullable
  V put(@Nullable K key, @Nullable V value);

  /**
   * An alternate form of {@code put} that silently removes any existing entry with the value {@code
   * value} before proceeding with the {@link #put} operation. If the bimap previously contained the
   * provided key-value mapping, this method has no effect.
   *
   * 
Note that a successful call to this method could cause the size of the bimap to increase by
   * one, stay the same, or even decrease by one.
   *
   * 
Warning: If an existing entry with this value is removed, the key for that entry is
   * discarded and not returned.
   *
   * @param key the key with which the specified value is to be associated
   * @param value the value to be associated with the specified key
   * @return the value which was previously associated with the key, which may be {@code null}, or
   *     {@code null} if there was no previous entry
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  @Nullable
  V forcePut(@Nullable K key, @Nullable V value);

  // Bulk Operations

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * 
Warning: the results of calling this method may vary depending on the iteration order
   * of {@code map}.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if an attempt to {@code put} any entry fails. Note that some
   *     map entries may have been added to the bimap before the exception was thrown.
   */
  @Override
  void putAll(Map map);

  // Views

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * 
Because a bimap has unique values, this method returns a {@link Set}, instead of the {@link
   * java.util.Collection} specified in the {@link Map} interface.
   */
  @Override
  Set values();

  /**
   * Returns the inverse view of this bimap, which maps each of this bimap's values to its
   * associated key. The two bimaps are backed by the same data; any changes to one will appear in
   * the other.
   *
   * Note:There is no guaranteed correspondence between the iteration order of a bimap and
   * that of its inverse.
   *
   * @return the inverse view of this bimap
   */
  BiMap inverse();
}