model/ccnx-name-components-hash-helper.h

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 * Author: Ilya Moiseenko <iliamo@cs.ucla.edu>
 */

#ifndef CCNX_HASH_HELPER_H
#define CCNX_HASH_HELPER_H

#include <string>
#include <boost/foreach.hpp>
#include "ccnx-name-components.h"

namespace ns3
{

/**
 * \ingroup ccnx-helpers
 * \brief Helper providing hash value for the name prefix
 *
 * The whole prefix is considered as a long string with '/' delimiters
 *
 * \todo Testing is required to determine if this hash function
 * actually provides good hash results
 */
struct CcnxPrefixHash : public std::unary_function<CcnxNameComponents, std::size_t>
{
  /**
   * @brief Compute hash of the name prefix
   */
  std::size_t
  operator() (const CcnxNameComponents &prefix) const
  {
    std::size_t hash = 23;
    BOOST_FOREACH (const std::string &str, prefix.GetComponents ())
      {
        hash += str.size ();
        hash = ((hash << 6) ^ (hash >> 27)) + '/';
        BOOST_FOREACH (char c, str)
          {
            hash = ((hash << 6) ^ (hash >> 27)) + c;
          }
      }
    return hash;
  }
};
} // namespace ns3

#endif // CCNX_HASH_HELPER_H