default Map<String, Map<String, String>> getProperties(String nameSpace, String mapPrefix, String mapPredicate, String... selection) throws TException {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
  }
Gets properties.
@param nameSpace the property store namespace.
@param mapPrefix the map prefix (ala starts-with) to select maps
@param mapPredicate predicate expression on properties to further reduce the selected maps
@param selection the list of properties to return, null for all
@return a map keyed by property map path to maps keyed by property name mapped to property values
@throws TException
standalone-metastore/metastore-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/IMetaStoreClient.java