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This project was born out of a need to validate all POJOs (Plain Old Java Object) are behaving correctly. This project has two main aspects to it: * Make Testing as easy as possible. * Simplifying identity management (hashCode / equals) using annotation.

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/**
 * Copyright (C) 2010 Osman Shoukry
 *
 *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *   (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *   GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *   along with this program.  If not, see .
 */
package com.openpojo.business.identity;

/**
 * This interface defines the contract for hash code generation handlers.
 *
 * @author oshoukry
 */
public interface HashCodeGenerator {

    /**
     * This method will calculate BusinessKey based hashcode.
     *
     * @param object
     *          Object to generate hashCode for.
     * @return
     *          generated hash code.
     */
    public int doGenerate(Object object);
}