std::hash<Key>::operator()

 

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Specializations of std::hash should define an operator() that:

• Takes a single argument key of type Key.
• Returns a value of type size_t that represents the hash value of key.
• For two parameters k1 and k2 that are equal, std::hash<Key>()(k1) == std::hash<Key>()(k2).
• For two different parameters k1 and k2 that are not equal, the probability that std::hash<Key>()(k1) == std::hash<Key>()(k2) should be very small, approaching 1.0/std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max().

Parameters

key

-

the object to be hashed

Return value

a size_t representing the hash value

Exceptions

Hash functions should not throw exceptions.

Example

The following code shows how to specialize the std::hash template for a custom class.

#include <functional>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
 
struct Employee {
  std::string name;
  unsigned int ID;
};
 
namespace std {
template <>
class hash<Employee> {
 public:
  size_t operator()(const Employee &employee) const
  {
    // computes the hash of an employee using a variant 
    // of the Fowler-Noll-Vo hash function
    size_t result = 2166136261;
 
    for (size_t i = 0, ie = employee.name.size(); i != ie; ++i) {
      result = (result * 16777619) ^ employee.name[i];
    }
 
    return result ^ (employee.ID << 1);
  }
};
}
 
int main()
{
  Employee employee;
  employee.name = "Zaphod Beeblebrox";
  employee.ID = 42;
 
  std::hash<Employee> hash_fn;
  std::cout << hash_fn(employee) << '\n';
}

Output:

177237019