Name: rlT66838 Date: 06/28/99


InetAddress doesn't seem to support getting at the address
components, modifying them, and then creating new InetAddress.

I have a numeric IP address for which I want to create an
InetAddress object. I can't construct an InetAddress with
it; I have to use InetAddress.getByName with a string
in dotted-quad notation ( "xxx.yyy.zzz.www" ). That's strange,
but not too bad.

Next, I want to take an InetAddress and change its last
field (last 8 bits) to 255. I can get the address in
bytes with getAddress(), but if I change anything, there's
no constructor to create a new InetAddress with the changed
data.

I guess I can take the bytes, modify them, format them back
into a dotted-quad-notation string, and do getHostByName
again, but that certainly doesn't sound clean.


Consider adding a little more support for address access.

One thing other feature you might add is converting a internet
address to a broadcast address. (I assume such an operation
would also require a subnet mask parameter.)
(Review ID: 84857)
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