rice.p2p.commonapi
Interface IdFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

PastryIdFactory

public interface IdFactory

Version:

$Id: IdFactory.java,v 1.5 2003/09/28 08:16:29 amislove Exp $

Author:

Alan Mislove, Peter Druschel

Method Summary

rice.p2p.commonapi.Id	buildId(byte[] material) Builds a protocol-specific Id given the source data.
rice.p2p.commonapi.Id	buildId(int[] material) Builds a protocol-specific Id given the source data.
rice.p2p.commonapi.Id	buildId(java.lang.String string) Builds a protocol-specific Id by using the hash of the given string as source data.
Id.Distance	buildIdDistance(byte[] material) Builds a protocol-specific Id.Distance given the source data.
rice.p2p.commonapi.IdRange	buildIdRange(rice.p2p.commonapi.Id cw, rice.p2p.commonapi.Id ccw) Creates an IdRange given the CW and CCW ids.
rice.p2p.commonapi.IdSet	buildIdSet() Creates an empty IdSet.

Method Detail

buildId

public rice.p2p.commonapi.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 rice.p2p.commonapi.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 rice.p2p.commonapi.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.

buildIdDistance

public Id.Distance buildIdDistance(byte[] material)

Builds a protocol-specific Id.Distance given the source data.

Parameters:

material - The material to use

Returns:

The built Id.Distance.

buildIdRange

public rice.p2p.commonapi.IdRange buildIdRange(rice.p2p.commonapi.Id cw,
                                               rice.p2p.commonapi.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 rice.p2p.commonapi.IdSet buildIdSet()

Creates an empty IdSet.

Returns:

an empty IdSet