Add back some public static methods to avoid api breakage, however unlikely.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/query/properties/PropertyMap.java b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/query/properties/PropertyMap.java
index 934f1cacf32..76d94f3f0a2 100644
--- a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/query/properties/PropertyMap.java
+++ b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/query/properties/PropertyMap.java
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 package com.yahoo.search.query.properties;
 import com.yahoo.processing.request.*;
 import com.yahoo.search.query.Properties;
-import java.util.*;
-import java.util.logging.Logger;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 
 /**
  * A Map backing of Properties.
@@ -76,4 +77,9 @@ public class PropertyMap extends Properties {
         return map;
     }
 
+    /** Clones this object if it is clonable, and the clone is public. Returns null if not */
+    public static Object clone(Object object) {
+        return cloneHelper.clone(object);
+    }
+
 }