HCOLL-184 added a method to return the server version from the stateless client

src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessChronicleMap.java

@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ class StatelessChronicleMap<K, V> implements ChronicleMap<K, V>, Closeable, Clon
         PUT_IF_ABSENT,
         REMOVE_WITH_VALUE,
         TO_STRING,
+        VERSION,
         PUT_ALL,
         PUT_ALL_WITHOUT_ACC,
         HASH_CODE,
@@ -431,6 +432,11 @@ class StatelessChronicleMap<K, V> implements ChronicleMap<K, V>, Closeable, Clon
         return fetchObject(String.class, TO_STRING);
     }
 
+    @NotNull
+    public String version() {
+        return fetchObject(String.class, VERSION);
+    }
+
     public boolean isEmpty() {
         return fetchBoolean(IS_EMPTY);
     }

src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java

@@ -1485,9 +1485,13 @@ class StatelessServerConnector<K, V> {
 
             case REMOVE_WITH_VALUE:
                 return removeWithValue(reader, writer.in(), sizeLocation, timestamp, identifier);
+
             case TO_STRING:
                 return toString(writer.in(), sizeLocation);
 
+            case VERSION:
+                return version(writer.in(), sizeLocation);
+
             case PUT_ALL:
                 return putAll(reader, writer.in(), sizeLocation, timestamp, identifier);
 
@@ -1609,6 +1613,25 @@ class StatelessServerConnector<K, V> {
         return null;
     }
 
+
+    @Nullable
+    private Work version(@NotNull Bytes writer, final long sizeLocation) {
+
+
+        final long remaining = writer.remaining();
+        try {
+            String result = map.version();
+            writer.writeObject(result);
+        } catch (Throwable e) {
+            return sendException(writer, sizeLocation, e);
+        }
+
+        assert remaining > 4;
+
+        writeSizeAndFlags(sizeLocation, false, writer);
+        return null;
+    }
+
     @SuppressWarnings("SameReturnValue")
     @Nullable
     private Work sendException(@NotNull Bytes writer, long sizeLocation, @NotNull Throwable e) {