HashFunction (Lucene 9.0.0 codecs API)

java.lang.Object
- org.apache.lucene.codecs.bloom.HashFunction

Direct Known Subclasses:

MurmurHash2
```
public abstract class HashFunction
extends Object
```
Base class for hashing functions that can be referred to by name. Subclasses are expected to provide threadsafe implementations of the hash function on the range of bytes referenced in the provided BytesRef

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

- Constructor Summary
  
  Constructors
  Constructor Description
  
  HashFunction()
- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  abstract int hash(BytesRef bytes)
  Hashes the contents of the referenced bytes
  - Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
    clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - HashFunction
```
public HashFunction()
```
- Method Detail
  - hash
```
public abstract int hash(BytesRef bytes)
```
    Hashes the contents of the referenced bytes
    
    Parameters:
    
    bytes - the data to be hashed
    
    Returns:
    
    the hash of the bytes referenced by bytes.offset and length bytes.length