}

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<K, V> floorEntry(K key) {
    return delegate.floorEntry(checkValid(key));
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable K floorKey(K key) {
    return delegate.floorKey(checkValid(key));
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable V get(Object key) {
    return delegate.get(checkValid(key));
  }

  @Override
  public SortedMap<K, V> headMap(K toKey) {

  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<K, V> floorEntry(K key) {
    return delegate.floorEntry(checkValid(key));
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable K floorKey(K key) {
    return delegate.floorKey(checkValid(key));
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable V get(Object key) {
    return delegate.get(checkValid(key));
  }

  @Override
  public SortedMap<K, V> headMap(K toKey) {

        List<String> keyAndValue = ImmutableList.copyOf(KEY_VALUE_SPLITTER.split(keyValuePair));
        checkArgument(!keyAndValue.isEmpty(), "blank key-value pair");
        checkArgument(
            keyAndValue.size() <= 2,
            "key-value pair %s with more than one equals sign",
            keyValuePair);

        // Find the ValueParser for the current key.
        String key = keyAndValue.get(0);

  @Override
  public SortedSet<V> removeAll(@CheckForNull Object key) {
    return (SortedSet<V>) super.removeAll(key);
  }

  /**
   * Stores a collection of values with the same key, replacing any existing values for that key.
   * The returned collection is immutable.
   *
   * <p>Because a {@code SortedSetMultimap} has unique sorted values for a given key, this method

  @Override
  public SortedSet<V> removeAll(@CheckForNull Object key) {
    return (SortedSet<V>) super.removeAll(key);
  }

  /**
   * Stores a collection of values with the same key, replacing any existing values for that key.
   * The returned collection is immutable.
   *
   * <p>Because a {@code SortedSetMultimap} has unique sorted values for a given key, this method

  public Entry<K, V> lowerEntry(@ParametricNullness K key) {
    return headMap(key, false).lastEntry();
  }

  @Override
  @CheckForNull
  public Entry<K, V> floorEntry(@ParametricNullness K key) {
    return headMap(key, true).lastEntry();
  }

  @Override
  @CheckForNull
  public Entry<K, V> ceilingEntry(@ParametricNullness K key) {
    return tailMap(key, true).firstEntry();
  }

  @Override

  }

  /** Given a key, returns the index of the entry in the tables, or ABSENT if not found. */
  int findEntryByKey(@CheckForNull Object key) {
    return findEntryByKey(key, Hashing.smearedHash(key));
  }

  /**
   * Given a key and its hash, returns the index of the entry in the tables, or ABSENT if not found.
   */
  int findEntryByKey(@CheckForNull Object key, int keyHash) {

   * key-value pairs are added to the multimap.
   *
   * @param key key to associate with values in the collection
   * @return a new decorated set containing a collection of values for one key
   */
  @Override
  Collection<V> createCollection(@ParametricNullness K key) {
    return new ValueSet(key, valueSetCapacity);
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *

  @Override
  protected void assertGet(K key, V... values) {
    assertGet(key, Arrays.asList(values));
  }

  @Override
  protected void assertGet(K key, Collection<? extends V> values) {
    assertEqualInOrder(values, multimap().get(key));

    if (!values.isEmpty()) {
      assertEqualInOrder(values, multimap().asMap().get(key));
      assertFalse(multimap().isEmpty());
    } else {

        Entry<K, V> entry = requireNonNull(entryArray[inI]);
        K key = entry.getKey();
        if (duplicates.containsKey(key)) {
          V value = duplicates.get(key);
          if (value == null) {
            continue; // delete this duplicate
          }
          entry = new ImmutableMapEntry<>(key, value);
          duplicates.put(key, null);
        }
        newEntryArray[outI++] = entry;
      }