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package org.apache.lucene.codecs.bloom;
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import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;


/**
 * Base class for hashing functions that can be referred to by name.
 * Subclasses are expected to provide threadsafe implementations of the hash function
 * on the range of bytes referenced in the provided {@link BytesRef}
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class HashFunction {

  /**
   * Hashes the contents of the referenced bytes
   * @param bytes the data to be hashed
   * @return the hash of the bytes referenced by bytes.offset and length bytes.length
   */
  public abstract int hash(BytesRef bytes);

}