anthill.types
Interface HashedKeyword

All Superinterfaces:

Closeness, Comparable

All Known Implementing Classes:

SHAHashedKeyword, SimpleHashedKeyword

public interface HashedKeyword

extends Comparable, Closeness

This interface represents an hashed keyword, used in ant algorithms based on hash routing. An hashed keyword contains two values, the keyword maintained as a plain-text string, and the hash value maintained as an array of bytes.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Alberto Montresor (montresor@cs.unibo.it)

Field Summary

static String

NAME

Method Summary

byte[]	getBytes() Returns the bytes representing the hashed value of the keyword.
String	getKeyword() Returns the keyword associated with this hashed keyword.
void	init(String keyword) Initializes the hashed keyword by setting the keyword contained in it.

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Methods inherited from interface anthill.types.Closeness

isCloser

Field Detail

NAME

public static final String NAME

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

init

public void init(String keyword)

Initializes the hashed keyword by setting the keyword contained in it.

getKeyword

public String getKeyword()

Returns the keyword associated with this hashed keyword.

getBytes

public byte[] getBytes()

Returns the bytes representing the hashed value of the keyword.