Java hashcode based on identity

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Published on 2009-06-30T13:22:53Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 10:13 UTC
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The default behavior of Object.hashCode() is to return essentially the "address" of the object so that a.hashCode() == b.hashCode() if and only if a == b. How can I get this behavior in a user-defined class if a superclass already defines hashCode()? For instance:

class A {
  public int hashCode() {
    return 0;
  }
}

class B extends A {
  public int hashCode() {
    // Now I want to return a unique hashcode for each object.
    // In pythonic terms, it'd look something like:
    return Object.hashCode(this);
  }
}

Ideas?

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