/* -*- Mode: java; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- * * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License * Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in * compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ * * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" * basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See * the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations * under the License. * * The Original Code is the Grendel mail/news client. * * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape Communications * Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are Copyright (C) 1997 * Netscape Communications Corporation. All Rights Reserved. * * Created: Jamie Zawinski , 19 Sep 1997. */ package grendel.storage; /** This class represents a Message-ID. It does not contain the ID itself: there is no way to reconstruct the original string from this object; however, it contains a hash of that string which should be sufficiently unique so that the odds of a collision are 1 in 2^32 (since it is a 64-bit hash.)

We store the hash instead of the original string because it takes up significantly less memory, and in order to do threading, we tend to need a huge number of Message-IDs in memory at once. @see MessageIDTable */ class MessageID { long hash; // not protected for the benfit of a MessageIDTable kludge. // String debug_id_string; /** Constructs a MessageID object with a null hash. */ MessageID() { } /** Constructs a MessageID object with the given hash. */ MessageID(long hash) { this.hash = hash; } /** Constructs a MessageID object for the given sub-sequence of bytes. A pointer to the bytes is not retained. */ MessageID(byte bytes[], int start, int length) { hash = hashBytes(bytes, start, length); // debug_id_string = new String(bytes, start, length); } MessageID(String chars) { byte bytes[] = chars.getBytes(); hash = hashBytes(bytes, 0, bytes.length); // debug_id_string = chars; } /** Converts it to a string, for debugging. */ public String toString() { return "<" + this.getClass() + " hash=" + Long.toHexString(hash) + // " string=" + debug_id_string + ">"; } public int hashCode() { // Note that this is a 32-bit hash, not the 64-bit internal hash; // it's good enough for hash tables, but not for equality checks. return (int) ((hash >> 32) ^ (hash & 0xFFFFFFFF)); } public boolean equals(Object x) { if (x instanceof MessageID) return (hash == ((MessageID) x).hash); else return false; } /** Computes a 64-bit hash of the given subsequence of bytes.

Note: this hash value is written out to mail summary files by the MailSummaryFileGrendel class. If the hash algorithm is changed, it will invalidate all existing mail summary files, and necessitate a change of the file format version number. @see MailSummaryFileGrendel */ protected long hashBytes(byte bytes[], int start, int length) { long h = 0; int end = start + length; int i = start; // Just in case, don't count a leading < or trailing > in the hash. // All callers should strip those first, but be safe... while (i < end && (bytes[i] == '<' || bytes[i] <= ' ')) i++; while (end > i && (bytes[end-1] == '>' || bytes[end-1] <= ' ')) end--; while (i < end) { long hh = 0; for (int j = 0; i < end && j < 16; j++) { hh = (hh * 37) + bytes[i++]; // the guts of String.hashCode(). } h = (h << 8) ^ hh; // fill in high-high-order bits too. } return h; } }