Package org.apache.lucene.codecs.bloom

Class HashFunction

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 Details

    • HashFunction

      public HashFunction()

  • Method Details

    • 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