From f3bec4ebaccc1dc095a49f4d8e500e0cacfa6f0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: leventov <leventov@ya.ru>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:28:12 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add ChronicleMap.of() as a shortcut to
 ChronicleMapBuilder.of()

---
 .../net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMap.java     | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMap.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMap.java
index 2b698484f..2c6d70bb8 100755
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMap.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMap.java
@@ -55,6 +55,19 @@ public interface ChronicleMap<K, V> extends ConcurrentMap<K, V>,
         ChronicleHash<K, MapEntry<K, V>, MapSegmentContext<K, V, ?>,
                 ExternalMapQueryContext<K, V, ?>> {
 
+    /**
+     * Delegates to {@link ChronicleMapBuilder#of(Class, Class)} for convenience.
+     *
+     * @param keyClass class of the key type of the Chronicle Map to create
+     * @param valueClass class of the value type of the Chronicle Map to create
+     * @param <K> the key type of the Chronicle Map to create
+     * @param <V> the value type of the Chronicle Map to create
+     * @return a new {@code ChronicleMapBuilder} for the given key and value classes
+     */
+    static <K, V> ChronicleMapBuilder<K, V> of(Class<K> keyClass, Class<V> valueClass) {
+        return ChronicleMapBuilder.of(keyClass, valueClass);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns the value to which the specified key is mapped, or {@code null} if this map contains
      * no mapping for the key.