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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.collections;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * The "read" subset of the {@link Map} interface.
+ * @since Commons Collections 5
+ * @TODO fix version
+ * @version $Revision$ $Date$
+ * @see Put
+ * @author Matt Benson
+ */
+public interface IterableGet<K, V> extends Get<K, V> {
+    /**
+     * Obtains a <code>MapIterator</code> over the map.
+     * <p>
+     * A map iterator is an efficient way of iterating over maps.
+     * There is no need to access the entry set or use Map Entry objects.
+     * <pre>
+     * IterableMap<String,Integer> map = new HashedMap<String,Integer>();
+     * MapIterator<String,Integer> it = map.mapIterator();
+     * while (it.hasNext()) {
+     *   String key = it.next();
+     *   Integer value = it.getValue();
+     *   it.setValue(value + 1);
+     * }
+     * </pre>
+     * 
+     * @return a map iterator
+     */
+    MapIterator<K, V> mapIterator();
+
+}