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      1 /*
      2  * Copyright (C) 2011 The Guava Authors
      3  *
      4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
      5  * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
      6  *
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      8  *
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     12  * the License.
     13  */
     14 
     15 package com.google.common.hash;
     16 
     17 import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
     18 import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
     19 import com.google.common.primitives.Ints;
     20 
     21 import java.security.MessageDigest;
     22 
     23 /**
     24  * An immutable hash code of arbitrary bit length.
     25  *
     26  * @author Dimitris Andreou
     27  * @since 11.0
     28  */
     29 @Beta
     30 public abstract class HashCode {
     31   HashCode() {}
     32 
     33   /**
     34    * Returns the first four bytes of {@linkplain #asBytes() this hashcode's bytes}, converted to
     35    * an {@code int} value in little-endian order.
     36    */
     37   public abstract int asInt();
     38 
     39   /**
     40    * Returns the first eight bytes of {@linkplain #asBytes() this hashcode's bytes}, converted to
     41    * a {@code long} value in little-endian order.
     42    *
     43    * @throws IllegalStateException if {@code bits() < 64}
     44    */
     45   public abstract long asLong();
     46 
     47   /**
     48    * Returns the value of this hash code as a byte array. The caller may modify the byte array;
     49    * changes to it will <i>not</i> be reflected in this {@code HashCode} object or any other arrays
     50    * returned by this method.
     51    */
     52   // TODO(user): consider ByteString here, when that is available
     53   public abstract byte[] asBytes();
     54 
     55   /**
     56    * Copies bytes from this hash code into {@code dest}.
     57    *
     58    * @param dest the byte array into which the hash code will be written
     59    * @param offset the start offset in the data
     60    * @param maxLength the maximum number of bytes to write
     61    * @return the number of bytes written to {@code dest}
     62    * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if there is not enough room in {@code dest}
     63    */
     64   public int writeBytesTo(byte[] dest, int offset, int maxLength) {
     65     byte[] hash = asBytes();
     66     maxLength = Ints.min(maxLength, hash.length);
     67     Preconditions.checkPositionIndexes(offset, offset + maxLength, dest.length);
     68     System.arraycopy(hash, 0, dest, offset, maxLength);
     69     return maxLength;
     70   }
     71 
     72   /**
     73    * Returns the number of bits in this hash code; a positive multiple of 32.
     74    */
     75   public abstract int bits();
     76 
     77   @Override public boolean equals(Object object) {
     78     if (object instanceof HashCode) {
     79       HashCode that = (HashCode) object;
     80       // Undocumented: this is a non-short-circuiting equals(), in case this is a cryptographic
     81       // hash code, in which case we don't want to leak timing information
     82       return MessageDigest.isEqual(this.asBytes(), that.asBytes());
     83     }
     84     return false;
     85   }
     86 
     87   /**
     88    * Returns a "Java hash code" for this {@code HashCode} instance; this is well-defined
     89    * (so, for example, you can safely put {@code HashCode} instances into a {@code
     90    * HashSet}) but is otherwise probably not what you want to use.
     91    */
     92   @Override public int hashCode() {
     93     /*
     94      * As long as the hash function that produced this isn't of horrible quality, this
     95      * won't be of horrible quality either.
     96      */
     97     return asInt();
     98   }
     99 
    100   /**
    101    * Returns a string containing each byte of {@link #asBytes}, in order, as a two-digit unsigned
    102    * hexadecimal number in lower case.
    103    *
    104    * <p>Note that if the output is considered to be a single hexadecimal number, this hash code's
    105    * bytes are the <i>big-endian</i> representation of that number. This may be surprising since
    106    * everything else in the hashing API uniformly treats multibyte values as little-endian. But
    107    * this format conveniently matches that of utilities such as the UNIX {@code md5sum} command.
    108    */
    109   @Override public String toString() {
    110     byte[] bytes = asBytes();
    111     // TODO(user): Use c.g.common.base.ByteArrays once it is open sourced.
    112     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(2 * bytes.length);
    113     for (byte b : bytes) {
    114       sb.append(hexDigits[(b >> 4) & 0xf]).append(hexDigits[b & 0xf]);
    115     }
    116     return sb.toString();
    117   }
    118 
    119   private static final char[] hexDigits = "0123456789abcdef".toCharArray();
    120 }
    121