From 152cb41d71ebd6a7161e8fdb9b388ce70a2d5b27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Heltai <luca.heltai@sissa.it>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:03:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added getters to Patterns::Map

---
 include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++
 source/base/parameter_handler.cc         | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h b/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h
index 6d9219ff99..d0806054dc 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h
@@ -578,6 +578,26 @@ namespace Patterns
      */
     std::size_t memory_consumption () const;
 
+    /**
+     * Return a reference to the key pattern.
+     */
+    const PatternBase &get_key_pattern() const;
+
+    /**
+     * Return a reference to the value pattern.
+     */
+    const PatternBase &get_value_pattern() const;
+
+    /**
+     * Return the separator of the map entries.
+     */
+    const std::string &get_separator() const;
+
+    /**
+     * Return the key-value separator.
+     */
+    const std::string &get_key_value_separator() const;
+
     /**
      * @addtogroup Exceptions
      * @{
diff --git a/source/base/parameter_handler.cc b/source/base/parameter_handler.cc
index e5194e785c..5aab9be8f7 100644
--- a/source/base/parameter_handler.cc
+++ b/source/base/parameter_handler.cc
@@ -924,6 +924,32 @@ namespace Patterns
 
 
 
+  const PatternBase &Map::get_key_pattern() const
+  {
+    return *key_pattern;
+  }
+
+
+
+  const PatternBase &Map::get_value_pattern() const
+  {
+    return *value_pattern;
+  }
+
+
+
+  const std::string &Map::get_separator() const
+  {
+    return separator;
+  }
+
+
+  const std::string &Map::get_key_value_separator() const
+  {
+    return key_value_separator;
+  }
+
+
   const char *MultipleSelection::description_init = "[MultipleSelection";
 
 
-- 
2.39.5