How to generate hashkey

[Anonymous]

Hello 

Can anyone suggest me, how to generate a hashcode using four business elements, which are coming from a source, am not familiar with java to write a routine for 4 business elements. i found a component taddCRCrow,but this can be used to get surrogate key not a hash code value, do we have any good component which can produce hash code, or else can any help me out how to write java code using 4 business elements, all this 4 attributes are string datatype

Thanks In Advance

Manish

[TRF · Accepted solution]

Here is a piece of code you can use to generate a MD5 string from an input (called strCode):

package routines;
import java.security.*;
public class GetHashCode {
	public static String getMD5(String strCode) {
		java.security.MessageDigest msg;
		String digest1 = "";
		try {
			msg = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
			msg.update(strCode.getBytes(), 0, strCode.length());
			digest1 = new java.math.BigInteger(1, msg.digest()).toString(32);
		}
		catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return digest1.toUpperCase();
	}
}

Create the routine and copy/past the code then start using it from anywhere in your jobs using the following expression:

GetHashCode.getMD5(row1.field1 + row1.field2 + row1.field3 + row1.field4)

[Anonymous]

@TRF Thank you so much for very swift response and  it worked out.

[TRF]

You're welcome

[Anonymous]

Is it possible to get the result only in integers.