We have an app that the Python module will write data to redis shards and the Java module will read data from redis shards, so I need to implement the exact same consistent hashing algorithm for Java and Python to make sure the data can be found.

I googled around and tried several implementations, but found the Java and Python implementations are always different, can't be used togather. Need your help.

Edit, online implementations I have tried:   

Java: <http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tomwhite/archive/2007/11/consistent_hash.html>   

Python: <http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2012/07/07/the-absolutely-simplest-consistent-hashing-example/>

 <http://amix.dk/blog/post/19367> 

Edit, attached Java (Google Guava lib used) and Python code I wrote. Code are based on the above articles.

```
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.SortedMap;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import com.google.common.hash.HashFunction;

public class ConsistentHash<T> {
    private final HashFunction hashFunction;
    private final int numberOfReplicas;
    private final SortedMap<Long, T> circle = new TreeMap<Long, T>();

    public ConsistentHash(HashFunction hashFunction, int numberOfReplicas,
            Collection<T> nodes) {
        this.hashFunction = hashFunction;
        this.numberOfReplicas = numberOfReplicas;

        for (T node : nodes) {
            add(node);
        }
    }

    public void add(T node) {
        for (int i = 0; i < numberOfReplicas; i++) {
            circle.put(hashFunction.hashString(node.toString() + i).asLong(),
                    node);
        }
    }

    public void remove(T node) {
        for (int i = 0; i < numberOfReplicas; i++) {
            circle.remove(hashFunction.hashString(node.toString() + i).asLong());
        }
    }

    public T get(Object key) {
        if (circle.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }
        long hash = hashFunction.hashString(key.toString()).asLong();
        if (!circle.containsKey(hash)) {
            SortedMap<Long, T> tailMap = circle.tailMap(hash);
            hash = tailMap.isEmpty() ? circle.firstKey() : tailMap.firstKey();
        }
        return circle.get(hash);
    }
}

```

Test code:

```
        ArrayList<String> al = new ArrayList<String>(); 
        al.add("redis1");
        al.add("redis2");
        al.add("redis3");
        al.add("redis4");

        String[] userIds = 
        {"-84942321036308",
        "-76029520310209",
        "-68343931116147",
        "-54921760962352"
        };
        HashFunction hf = Hashing.md5();

        ConsistentHash<String> consistentHash = new ConsistentHash<String>(hf, 100, al); 
        for (String userId : userIds) {
            System.out.println(consistentHash.get(userId));
        }

```

Python code:

```
import bisect
import md5

class ConsistentHashRing(object):
    """Implement a consistent hashing ring."""

    def __init__(self, replicas=100):
        """Create a new ConsistentHashRing.

        :param replicas: number of replicas.

        """
        self.replicas = replicas
        self._keys = []
        self._nodes = {}

    def _hash(self, key):
        """Given a string key, return a hash value."""

        return long(md5.md5(key).hexdigest(), 16)

    def _repl_iterator(self, nodename):
        """Given a node name, return an iterable of replica hashes."""

        return (self._hash("%s%s" % (nodename, i))
                for i in xrange(self.replicas))

    def __setitem__(self, nodename, node):
        """Add a node, given its name.

        The given nodename is hashed
        among the number of replicas.

        """
        for hash_ in self._repl_iterator(nodename):
            if hash_ in self._nodes:
                raise ValueError("Node name %r is "
                            "already present" % nodename)
            self._nodes[hash_] = node
            bisect.insort(self._keys, hash_)

    def __delitem__(self, nodename):
        """Remove a node, given its name."""

        for hash_ in self._repl_iterator(nodename):
            # will raise KeyError for nonexistent node name
            del self._nodes[hash_]
            index = bisect.bisect_left(self._keys, hash_)
            del self._keys[index]

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        """Return a node, given a key.

        The node replica with a hash value nearest
        but not less than that of the given
        name is returned.   If the hash of the
        given name is greater than the greatest
        hash, returns the lowest hashed node.

        """
        hash_ = self._hash(key)
        start = bisect.bisect(self._keys, hash_)
        if start == len(self._keys):
            start = 0
        return self._nodes[self._keys[start]]

```

Test code:

```
import ConsistentHashRing

if __name__ == '__main__':
    server_infos = ["redis1", "redis2", "redis3", "redis4"];
    hash_ring = ConsistentHashRing()
    test_keys = ["-84942321036308",
        "-76029520310209",
        "-68343931116147",
        "-54921760962352",
        "-53401599829545"
        ];

    for server in server_infos:
        hash_ring[server] = server

    for key in test_keys:
        print str(hash_ring[key])

```