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package org.apache.hyracks.algebricks.data;

import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.IBinaryHashFunctionFamily;

/**
 * Ideally, {@code IBinaryHashFunctionFamilyProvider} should be stateless and thread-safe. Also, it should be made into
 * a singleton. However, this is implementation-dependent.
 */
public interface IBinaryHashFunctionFamilyProvider {

    /**
     * Whether a singleton factory instance is returned or a new factory instance is created is implementation-specific.
     * Therefore, no assumption should be made in this regard.
     * TODO: some existing implementations create a new factory instance
     *
     * @param type the type of the data that will be hashed.
     *
     * @return a {@link IBinaryHashFunctionFamily} instance.
     */
    IBinaryHashFunctionFamily getBinaryHashFunctionFamily(Object type);
}
