rice.pastry
Class NodeId

java.lang.Object
  rice.pastry.Id
      rice.pastry.NodeId

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable, Id, java.io.Serializable

public class NodeId

extends Id

Represents a Pastry identifier for a node.

Version:

$Id: NodeId.java,v 1.26 2005/03/11 00:58:10 jeffh Exp $

Author:

Peter Druschel, Alan Mislove

See Also:

Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes inherited from class rice.pastry.Id

Id.Distance

Field Summary

static int

nodeIdBitLength This is the bit length of the node ids.

Fields inherited from class rice.pastry.Id

Half, IdBitLength, NegOne, nlen, Null, One

Method Summary

static NodeId	buildNodeId() Constructor.
static NodeId	buildNodeId(byte[] material) Constructor.
static NodeId	buildNodeId(int[] material) Constructor.

Methods inherited from class rice.pastry.Id

add, addToId, blit, blit, build, build, build, build, build, checkBit, clockwise, clockwise, compareTo, copy, distance, distanceFromId, equals, equals, getAlternateId, getByteArrayLength, getCCW, getCW, getDigit, getDomainPrefix, hashCode, indexOfMSDB, indexOfMSDD, isBetween, isBetween, longDistance, longDistanceFromId, makeRandomId, numDigits, resolve, toByteArray, toByteArray, toString, toStringFull, trans, trans, trans

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

nodeIdBitLength

public static final int nodeIdBitLength

This is the bit length of the node ids. If it is n, then there are 2^n different Pastry nodes. We currently assume that it is divisible by 32.

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

buildNodeId

public static NodeId buildNodeId(int[] material)

Constructor.

Parameters:

material - an array of length at least IdBitLength/32 containing raw Id material.

Returns:

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buildNodeId

public static NodeId buildNodeId(byte[] material)

Constructor.

Parameters:

material - an array of length at least IdBitLength/8 containing raw Id material.

Returns:

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buildNodeId

public static NodeId buildNodeId()

Constructor. It constructs a new Id with a value of 0 for all bits.

Returns:

DESCRIBE THE RETURN VALUE