Blob.java

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package org.waveprotocol.wave.communication;

/**
 * An arbitrary blob of data, comparable with other blobs of data.
 * <p>
 * This type is used to implement the primitive 'bytes' type of a protocol
 * buffer in a manner that is more suitable for web-based DTOs based on JSON.
 * The standard type, {@link com.google.protobuf.ByteString}, is not easily
 * cross-compilable (e.g., by GWT), and does not have an obvious and efficient
 * JSON serialization.
 * <p>
 * This type holds an encoding of arbitrary data as a string. The string
 * encoding is unspecified, so the value of {@link #getData()} should not be
 * interpreted to be meaningful.
 */
public final class Blob {
  private final String data;

  /**
   * @param data
   */
  public Blob(String data) {
    this.data = data;
  }

  public String getData() {
    return data;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object o) {
    return this == o || ((o instanceof Blob) && data.equals(((Blob) o).data));
  }

  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return 7 + 23 * data.hashCode();
  }
}