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[jira] [Reopened] (COLLECTIONS-749) Better documentation needed for HashFunctionIdentity.Signedness
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-749?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Alex Herbert reopened COLLECTIONS-749:
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> Better documentation needed for HashFunctionIdentity.Signedness
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> Key: COLLECTIONS-749
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-749
> Project: Commons Collections
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Collection
> Affects Versions: 4.5
> Reporter: Claude Warren
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.5
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> Time Spent: 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> From Alex Herbert:
> HashFunctionIdentity.Signedness
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> This is not fully documented as to what the sign applies to. There is no
> javadoc on the enum values for SIGNED and UNSIGNED. The current javadoc
> states "Identifies the signedness of the calculations for this function".
>
> I assume this applies to the Hash computation in 'long
> HashFunction.apply(byte[], int)'
>
> Does this mean the hash algorithm has a variant that can treat the
> bytes/seed as signed or unsigned. If so which one because 2 enum values
> cannot cover all 4 possibilities. Since there is no javadoc it is
> unclear exactly what this property is supposed to indicate.
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