burlap.statehashing

Interface HashableState

All Known Implementing Classes:

IDDiscHashableState, IDDiscMaskedHashableState, IDMaskedHashableState, IDSimpleHashableState, IIDiscHashableState, IIDiscMaskedHashableState, IIMaskedHashableState, IISimpleHashableState, TabularBeliefState, WrappedHashableState

public interface HashableState

An interface for an object that computes hash codes and performs equality checks for states. Having a separate object for these operations than the underlying state can be useful since it is often the case that different algorithms may want to pose abstractions on the underlying state or handle equality in different ways than the raw State implementation. Primarily, this is a marker interface to indicate that the object has implementations of Object.hashCode() and Object.equals(Object), but it does also require implementing the s() method, which should return the underlying state on which the hash and equals operations of this object are performed.

Author:

James MacGlashan

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
State	s() Returns the underlying source state that is hashed.

Method Detail

s

State s()

Returns the underlying source state that is hashed.

Returns:

The underlying source State that this object hashes and evaluates.