MEMCACHED_GENERATE_HASH_VALUE(3)

NAME
memcached_generate_hash_value - Generating hash values directly

Hash a key value

SYNOPSIS

#include <libmemcached/memcached.h>

uint32_t memcached_generate_hash_value (const char *key, size_t key_length, memcached_hash_t hash_algorithm);

uint32_t memcached_generate_hash (memcached_st *ptr, const char *key, size_t key_length);

    Compile and link with -lmemcachedutil -lmemcached

DESCRIPTION

memcached_generate_hash_value() allows you to hash a key using one of the hash functions defined in the library. This method is provided for the convenience of higher-level language bindings and is not necessary for normal memcache operations.

The allowed hash algorithm constants are listed in the manpage for memcached_behavior_set().

memcached_generate_hash() takes a memcached_st struture and produces the hash value that would have been generated based on the defaults of the memcached_st structure.

As of version 0.36 all hash methods have been placed into the library libhashkit(3) which is linked with libmemcached(3). For more information please see its documentation.

RETURN

A 32-bit integer which is the result of hashing the given key. For 64-bit hash algorithms, only the least-significant 32 bits are returned.

HOME

To find out more information please check: http://libmemcached.org/

AUTHOR

Brian Aker, <brian@tangent.org>

SEE ALSO

memcached(1) libmemcached(3) memcached_strerror(3)

AUTHOR
Brian Aker

COPYRIGHT
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