## org.apache.hadoop.util.bloom
Class BloomFilter

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.hadoop.util.bloom.Filter
          org.apache.hadoop.util.bloom.BloomFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Writable

Direct Known Subclasses:
  RetouchedBloomFilter

    public class BloomFilter

extends Filter

Implements a Bloom filter, as defined by Bloom in 1970.

The Bloom filter is a data structure that was introduced in 1970 and that has been adopted by the networking research community in the past decade thanks to the bandwidth efficiencies that it offers for the transmission of set membership information between networked hosts. A sender encodes the information into a bit vector, the Bloom filter, that is more compact than a conventional representation. Computation and space costs for construction are linear in the number of elements. The receiver uses the filter to test whether various elements are members of the set. Though the filter will occasionally return a false positive, it will never return a false negative. When creating the filter, the sender can choose its desired point in a trade-off between the false positive rate and the size.

Originally created by European Commission One-Lab Project 034819.

See Also:
  `The general behavior of a filter`, Space/Time Trade-Offs in Hash Coding with Allowable Errors

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.hadoop.util.bloom.Filter
`hash, hashType, nbHash, vectorSize`

Constructor Summary
`BloomFilter()` Default constructor - use with readFields
`BloomFilter(int vectorSize, int nbHash, int hashType)` Constructor

Method Summary
`void` `add(Key key)` Adds a key to this filter.
`void` `and(Filter filter)` Peforms a logical AND between this filter and a specified filter.
`int` `getVectorSize()`
`boolean` `membershipTest(Key key)` Determines wether a specified key belongs to this filter.
`void` `not()` Performs a logical NOT on this filter.
`void` `or(Filter filter)` Peforms a logical OR between this filter and a specified filter.
`void` `readFields(DataInput in)` Deserialize the fields of this object from `in`.
`String` `toString()`
`void` `write(DataOutput out)` Serialize the fields of this object to `out`.
`void` `xor(Filter filter)` Peforms a logical XOR between this filter and a specified filter.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.hadoop.util.bloom.Filter
`add, add, add`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### BloomFilter

    public BloomFilter()

  Default constructor - use with readFields

### BloomFilter

    public BloomFilter(int vectorSize,
                       int nbHash,
                       int hashType)

  Constructor

  Parameters:
    `vectorSize` - The vector size of this filter.
    `nbHash` - The number of hash function to consider.
    `hashType` - type of the hashing function (see `Hash`).

Method Detail

### add

    public void add(Key key)

  Description copied from class: `Filter`
  Adds a key to this filter.

  Specified by:
    `add` in class `Filter`
  Parameters:
    `key` - The key to add.

### and

    public void and(Filter filter)

  Description copied from class: `Filter`
  Peforms a logical AND between this filter and a specified filter.

  Invariant: The result is assigned to this filter.

  Specified by:
    `and` in class `Filter`
  Parameters:
    `filter` - The filter to AND with.

### membershipTest

    public boolean membershipTest(Key key)

  Description copied from class: `Filter`
  Determines wether a specified key belongs to this filter.

  Specified by:
    `membershipTest` in class `Filter`
  Parameters:
    `key` - The key to test.
  Returns:
    boolean True if the specified key belongs to this filter. False otherwise.

### not

    public void not()

  Description copied from class: `Filter`
  Performs a logical NOT on this filter.

  The result is assigned to this filter.

  Specified by:
    `not` in class `Filter`

### or

    public void or(Filter filter)

  Description copied from class: `Filter`
  Peforms a logical OR between this filter and a specified filter.

  Invariant: The result is assigned to this filter.

  Specified by:
    `or` in class `Filter`
  Parameters:
    `filter` - The filter to OR with.

### xor

    public void xor(Filter filter)

  Description copied from class: `Filter`
  Peforms a logical XOR between this filter and a specified filter.

  Invariant: The result is assigned to this filter.

  Specified by:
    `xor` in class `Filter`
  Parameters:
    `filter` - The filter to XOR with.

### toString

    public String toString()

  Overrides:
    `toString` in class `Object`

### getVectorSize

    public int getVectorSize()

  Returns:
    size of the the bloomfilter

### write

    public void write(DataOutput out)
               throws IOException

  Description copied from interface: `Writable`
  Serialize the fields of this object to `out`.

  Specified by:
    `write` in interface `Writable`
  Overrides:
    `write` in class `Filter`
  Parameters:
    `out` - `DataOuput` to serialize this object into.
  Throws:
    `IOException`

### readFields

    public void readFields(DataInput in)
                    throws IOException

  Description copied from interface: `Writable`
  Deserialize the fields of this object from `in`.

  For efficiency, implementations should attempt to re-use storage in the existing object where possible.

  Specified by:
    `readFields` in interface `Writable`
  Overrides:
    `readFields` in class `Filter`
  Parameters:
    `in` - `DataInput` to deseriablize this object from.
  Throws:
    `IOException`

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