The fingerprint is a string so alphanumeric values could be used. The current implementation just happens to use hashcode of the string of the LP, but that's a bit hacky and is subject to change in future releases to something more robust.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Hui Shang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In logicalplan, there is a method for calculating the fingerprint, why it > is string? After calling hashcode, it is a integer, but then in the code, > it called integer.tostring and return a string. What is the reason to do > this? Thanks very much! > > Best Regards > Hui > -- *Note that I'm no longer using my Yahoo! email address. Please email me at [email protected] going forward.*
