framework/src/android/net/InetAddresses.java

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package android.net;

import android.annotation.NonNull;

import libcore.net.InetAddressUtils;

import java.net.InetAddress;

/**
 * Utility methods for {@link InetAddress} implementations.
 */
public class InetAddresses {

    private InetAddresses() {}

    /**
     * Checks to see if the {@code address} is a numeric address (such as {@code "192.0.2.1"} or
     * {@code "2001:db8::1:2"}).
     *
     * <p>A numeric address is either an IPv4 address containing exactly 4 decimal numbers or an
     * IPv6 numeric address. IPv4 addresses that consist of either hexadecimal or octal digits or
     * do not have exactly 4 numbers are not treated as numeric.
     *
     * <p>This method will never do a DNS lookup.
     *
     * @param address the address to parse.
     * @return true if the supplied address is numeric, false otherwise.
     */
    public static boolean isNumericAddress(@NonNull String address) {
        return InetAddressUtils.isNumericAddress(address);
    }

    /**
     * Returns an InetAddress corresponding to the given numeric address (such
     * as {@code "192.168.0.1"} or {@code "2001:4860:800d::68"}).
     *
     * <p>See {@link #isNumericAddress(String)} (String)} for a definition as to what constitutes a
     * numeric address.
     *
     * <p>This method will never do a DNS lookup.
     *
     * @param address the address to parse, must be numeric.
     * @return an {@link InetAddress} instance corresponding to the address.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code address} is not a numeric address.
     */
    public static @NonNull InetAddress parseNumericAddress(@NonNull String address) {
        return InetAddressUtils.parseNumericAddress(address);
    }
}