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package com.hazelcast.core;
import java.util.Collection;
/**
* Base interface for Hazelcast distributed multi-maps.
*
* @see MultiMap
* @see TransactionalMultiMap
* @param
* @param
*/
public interface BaseMultiMap extends DistributedObject {
/**
* Stores a key-value pair in the multimap.
*
* @param key the key to be stored
* @param value the value to be stored
* @return true if size of the multimap is increased, false if the multimap
* already contains the key-value pair.
*/
boolean put(K key, V value);
/**
* Returns the collection of values associated with the key.
*
* @param key the key whose associated values are to be returned
* @return the collection of the values associated with the key.
*/
Collection get(K key);
/**
* Removes the given key value pair from the multimap.
*
* @param key the key of the entry to remove
* @param value the value of the entry to remove
* @return true if the size of the multimap changed after the remove operation, false otherwise.
*/
boolean remove(Object key, Object value);
/**
* Removes all the entries with the given key.
*
* @param key the key of the entries to remove
* @return the collection of removed values associated with the given key. Returned collection
* might be modifiable but it has no effect on the multimap
*/
Collection remove(Object key);
/**
* Returns number of values matching to given key in the multimap.
*
* @param key the key whose values count are to be returned
* @return number of values matching to given key in the multimap.
*/
int valueCount(K key);
/**
* Returns the number of key-value pairs in the multimap.
*
* @return the number of key-value pairs in the multimap.
*/
int size();
}