using Lucene.Net.Util;

namespace Lucene.Net.Codecs.Bloom
{
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    /// <summary>
    /// Base class for hashing functions that can be referred to by name.
    /// Subclasses are expected to provide threadsafe implementations of the hash function
    /// on the range of bytes referenced in the provided {@link BytesRef}
    /// 
    /// @lucene.experimental
    /// </summary>
    public abstract class HashFunction
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Hashes the contents of the referenced bytes
        /// @param bytes the data to be hashed
        /// @return the hash of the bytes referenced by bytes.offset and length bytes.length
        /// </summary>
        public abstract int Hash(BytesRef bytes);
    }
}