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package org.onosproject.store.service;

import org.onosproject.store.primitives.DistributedPrimitiveBuilder;

/**
 * A builder class for {@code AsyncConsistentMultimap}.
 */
public abstract class ConsistentMultimapBuilder<K, V>
    extends ConsistentMultimapOptions<ConsistentMultimapBuilder<K, V>, K, V>
    implements DistributedPrimitiveBuilder<ConsistentMultimap<K, V>> {

    /**
     * Builds the distributed multimap based on the configuration options
     * supplied to this builder.
     *
     * @return new distributed multimap
     * @throws java.lang.RuntimeException if a mandatory parameter is missing
     */
    public abstract AsyncConsistentMultimap<K, V> buildMultimap();
}