rice.p2p.commonapi
Interface IdFactory

public interface IdFactory

Version:

$Id: IdFactory.java,v 1.4 2003/06/11 17:24:48 amislove Exp $

Author:

Alan Mislove, Peter Druschel

Method Summary

Id	buildId(byte[] material) Builds a protocol-specific Id given the source data.
Id	buildId(int[] material) Builds a protocol-specific Id given the source data.
Id	buildId(java.lang.String string) Builds a protocol-specific Id by using the hash of the given string as source data.
IdRange	buildIdRange(Id cw, Id ccw) Creates an IdRange given the CW and CCW ids.
IdSet	buildIdSet() Creates an empty IdSet.

Method Detail

buildId

public Id buildId(byte[] material)

Builds a protocol-specific Id given the source data.

Parameters:

material - The material to use

Returns:

The built Id.

buildId

public Id buildId(int[] material)

Builds a protocol-specific Id given the source data.

Parameters:

material - The material to use

Returns:

The built Id.

buildId

public Id buildId(java.lang.String string)

Builds a protocol-specific Id by using the hash of the given string as source data.

Parameters:

string - The string to use as source data

Returns:

The built Id.

buildIdRange

public IdRange buildIdRange(Id cw,
                            Id ccw)

Creates an IdRange given the CW and CCW ids.

Parameters:

cw - The clockwise Id

ccw - The counterclockwise Id

Returns:

An IdRange with the appropriate delimiters.

buildIdSet

public IdSet buildIdSet()

Creates an empty IdSet.

Returns:

an empty IdSet