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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+package org.opendaylight.yangtools.util;
+
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.concepts.Builder;
+
+/**
+ * Utility class for incrementally building object hashCode by hashing together
+ * component objects, one by one.
+ *
+ * @param <T> Component objec type
+ */
+public final class HashCodeBuilder<T> implements Builder<Integer> {
+ private int currentHash;
+
+ /**
+ * Create a new instance, with internal hash initialized to 1,
+ * equivalent of {@link #HashCodeBuilder(1)}.
+ */
+ public HashCodeBuilder() {
+ this(1);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Create a new instance, with internal hash set to specified seed.
+ *
+ * @param seedHash Seed hash value
+ */
+ public HashCodeBuilder(final int seedHash) {
+ this.currentHash = seedHash;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Determine the next hash code combining a base hash code and the
+ * hash code of an object.
+ *
+ * @param hashCode base hash code
+ * @param obj Object to be added
+ * @return Combined hash code
+ */
+ public static int nextHashCode(final int hashCode, final Object obj) {
+ return 31 * hashCode + obj.hashCode();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Update the internal hash code with the hash code of a component
+ * object.
+ *
+ * @param obj Component object
+ */
+ public void addArgument(final T obj) {
+ currentHash = nextHashCode(currentHash, obj);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public Integer toInstance() {
+ return currentHash;
+ }
+}