From 66d6b9e2f27c370ca2cc73d300858ad6f15877e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vadim <vadimme@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:16:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make AbstractPatriciaTrie public (#407)

* Make AbstractPatriciaTrie public

* Added javadocs
---
 .../collections4/trie/AbstractPatriciaTrie.java        | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/trie/AbstractPatriciaTrie.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/trie/AbstractPatriciaTrie.java
index eebb6a427c..5e8b587d20 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/trie/AbstractPatriciaTrie.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/trie/AbstractPatriciaTrie.java
@@ -34,14 +34,17 @@
 import java.util.SortedMap;
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections4.OrderedMapIterator;
+import org.apache.commons.collections4.Trie;
 
 /**
  * This class implements the base PATRICIA algorithm and everything that
  * is related to the {@link Map} interface.
  *
+ * @param <K> the type of the keys in this map
+ * @param <V> the type of the values in this map
  * @since 4.0
  */
-abstract class AbstractPatriciaTrie<K, V> extends AbstractBitwiseTrie<K, V> {
+public abstract class AbstractPatriciaTrie<K, V> extends AbstractBitwiseTrie<K, V> {
 
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 5155253417231339498L;
 
@@ -66,6 +69,11 @@ abstract class AbstractPatriciaTrie<K, V> extends AbstractBitwiseTrie<K, V> {
      */
     protected transient int modCount;
 
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new {@link Trie} using the given {@link KeyAnalyzer}.
+     *
+     * @param keyAnalyzer  the {@link KeyAnalyzer} to use
+     */
     protected AbstractPatriciaTrie(final KeyAnalyzer<? super K> keyAnalyzer) {
         super(keyAnalyzer);
     }