* nor do its entries support {@link Entry#setValue setValue}.
   */
  Map<K, Collection<V>> asMap();

  // Comparison and hashing

  /**
   * Compares the specified object with this multimap for equality. Two multimaps are equal when
   * their map views, as returned by {@link #asMap}, are also equal.
   *
   * <p>In general, two multimaps with identical key-value mappings may or may not be equal,

    return createMultimap().asMap().subMap("e", "p");
  }

  @Override
  protected Map<String, Collection<Integer>> makePopulatedMap() {
    TreeMultimap<String, Integer> multimap = createMultimap();
    multimap.put("f", 1);
    multimap.put("f", 2);
    multimap.put("g", 3);
    multimap.put("h", 4);
    return multimap.asMap().subMap("e", "p");
  }

  @Override

  protected Map<String, Collection<Integer>> makeEmptyMap() {
    return ImmutableMultimap.<String, Integer>of().asMap();
  }

  @Override
  protected Map<String, Collection<Integer>> makePopulatedMap() {
    Multimap<String, Integer> delegate = HashMultimap.create();
    populate(delegate);
    return ImmutableMultimap.copyOf(delegate).asMap();
  }

        .asMap();
  }

  @Override
  protected Map<String, Collection<Integer>> makePopulatedMap() {
    ListMultimap<String, Integer> delegate = ArrayListMultimap.create();
    populate(delegate);
    return Multimaps.transformValues(delegate, Functions.<Integer>identity()).asMap();
  }

    Multimap<String, Integer> multimap = createMultimap();
    return multimap.asMap();
  }

  @Override
  protected Map<String, Collection<Integer>> makePopulatedMap() {
    Multimap<String, Integer> multimap = createMultimap();
    populate(multimap);
    return multimap.asMap();
  }

   *
   * <p>When passed a key that is present in the map, {@code asMap().get(Object)} has the same
   * behavior as {@link #get}, returning a live collection. When passed a key that is not present,
   * however, {@code asMap().get(Object)} returns {@code null} instead of an empty collection.
   *

  }

  /**
   * Returns {@link SetMultimap#asMap multimap.asMap()}, with its type corrected from {@code Map<K,
   * Collection<V>>} to {@code Map<K, Set<V>>}.
   *
   * @since 15.0
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  // safe by specification of SetMultimap.asMap()
  public static <K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object> Map<K, Set<V>> asMap(

  }

  /**
   * Returns {@link SetMultimap#asMap multimap.asMap()}, with its type corrected from {@code Map<K,
   * Collection<V>>} to {@code Map<K, Set<V>>}.
   *
   * @since 15.0
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  // safe by specification of SetMultimap.asMap()
  public static <K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object> Map<K, Set<V>> asMap(

    assertEqualInOrder(values, multimap().get(key));

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

    assertEquals(values.size(), multimap().get(key).size());
    assertEquals(values.size() > 0, multimap().containsKey(key));

   * just back this out once we stop doing that (which we'll do after our internal GWT setup
   * changes).
   */
  @Override
  public ImmutableMap<Object, Collection<Object>> asMap() {
    return super.asMap();
  }

  private Object readResolve() {
    return INSTANCE; // preserve singleton property
  }

  @GwtIncompatible @J2ktIncompatible private static final long serialVersionUID = 0;