Include a way to explicitly define a hash constant for each primitive type,
along with the functionality described in LANG-411
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Key: LANG-627
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-627
Project: Commons Lang
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: lang.*
Affects Versions: 3.0
Reporter: Michael Sean Mickey
Priority: Minor
Regarding LANG-411, the description mentions 2 parameters for each hash
operation: the first a parameter to hold the type instance to be hashed, the
second a hash multiplier.
Shouldn't there also be a way to define a specific hash constant value as well?
Joshua Bloch refers to this value as the starting value for "result" in his
examples and the HashCodeBuilder code maintains an internal field named: iTotal
for this value. It doesn't seem to make sense to add a parameter to the hashing
operations for a starting hash constant value, but it probably makes sense to
add mutators that allow setting this value across any given type. For example:
setIntHashConstant, setBoolHashConstant, setLongHashConstant, etc. Default
values could be defined so that explicit hash constants are not required.
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