I did :

    ERXRouteResults results = (ERXRouteResults)response(someEntity, filter);
    String etagHash = 
ERXCrypto.sha256Encode(results.responseNode().toString(results.format(), 
this.restContext()));

> there's not a direct simple way to do it ... probably grab the snapshot off 
> the EO and compute a hash of the values (you can ignore the keys because 
> they're fixed). it might be something where you can make a new interface in 
> ERX that your EO's could implement to provide a more optimal impl (like 
> ERCStamped could use its lastModified as a basis).
> 
> ms
> 
> On May 25, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to find a way to generate a HTTP ETag for EOs so that caching can 
>> be done for REST services. What I want to do is to have the same ETag value 
>> for each representation of the EO, so when one of the values change, the 
>> ETag value will also change, but if the EO have the same value, it will 
>> generate the same ETag as another request got.
>> 
>> Problem is: I don't know what to use. I tried with myEO.hashCode() but I did 
>> some tests and every time I fetch the EO, the hashcode is different even if 
>> the data didn't change. I'm thinking of doing a MD5 digest of part of the 
>> EO, but I was wondering if another way exist? I could use a "last modified" 
>> date and generate a MD5 of that too, but that date is a better option for 
>> the Last-Modified header.
>> 
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