consolidate hash creation methods

src/main/java/ortus/boxlang/runtime/util/EncodingUtil.java

@@ -12,15 +12,44 @@
 
 public final class EncodingUtil {
 
-	public static String checksum( Path filePath ) {
-		return checksum( filePath, "MD5" );
+	public static String DEFAULT_ALGORITHM = "MD5";
+
+	/**
+	 * Performs a hash of a an object using the default algorithm
+	 *
+	 * @param object The object to be hashed
+	 *
+	 * @return returns the hashed string
+	 */
+	public static String hash( Object object ) {
+		return hash( object, DEFAULT_ALGORITHM );
 	}
 
-	public static String checksum( Path filePath, String algorithm ) {
-		StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
+	/**
+	 * Performs a hash of an object using a supported algorithm
+	 *
+	 * @param byteArray the byte array representing the object
+	 * @param algorithm The supported {@link java.security.MessageDigest } algorithm (case-insensitive)
+	 *
+	 * @return returns the hashed string
+	 */
+	public static String hash( Object object, String algorithm ) {
+		return hash( object.toString().getBytes(), algorithm );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Performs a hash of a byte array using a supported algorithm
+	 *
+	 * @param byteArray the byte array representing the object
+	 * @param algorithm The supported {@link java.security.MessageDigest } algorithm (case-insensitive)
+	 *
+	 * @return returns the hashed string
+	 */
+	public static String hash( byte[] byteArray, String algorithm ) {
 		try {
-			MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance( algorithm.toUpperCase() );
-			md.update( Files.readAllBytes( filePath ) );
+			StringBuilder	result	= new StringBuilder();
+			MessageDigest	md		= MessageDigest.getInstance( algorithm.toUpperCase() );
+			md.update( byteArray );
 			byte[] digest = md.digest();
 			IntStream
 			    .range( 0, digest.length )
@@ -33,6 +62,31 @@ public static String checksum( Path filePath, String algorithm ) {
 			        algorithm.toUpperCase()
 			    )
 			);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Peforms a checksum of a file path object using the MD5 algorithm
+	 *
+	 * @param filePath The {@link java.nio.file.Path} object
+	 *
+	 * @return returns the checksum string
+	 */
+	public static String checksum( Path filePath ) {
+		return checksum( filePath, DEFAULT_ALGORITHM );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Peforms a checksum of a file path object using a supported algorithm
+	 *
+	 * @param filePath  The {@link java.nio.file.Path} object
+	 * @param algorithm The supported {@link java.security.MessageDigest } algorithm (case-insensitive)
+	 *
+	 * @return returns the checksum string
+	 */
+	public static String checksum( Path filePath, String algorithm ) {
+		try {
+			return hash( Files.readAllBytes( filePath ) );
 		} catch ( IOException e ) {
 			throw new BoxIOException( e );
 		}