On 2015-05-28 11:10 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 00:08:10 UTC, Andre Kostur wrote:
I'm looking for one of two things:
1) If I have a sockaddr_in, how do I get it into an InternetAddress?
First of all, you may not actually need an InternetAddress. Modern code
working with addresses should be address-agnostic, so it should take an
Address instead. Ideally, you should avoid doing anything
address-family-specific - then, it will work with any address family,
incl. any introduced in the future.
Generally speaking, sure. But I live down at the protocol layers of
networking where I do need to be aware of whether I'm using IPv4 or IPv6.
You could:
- Create an UnknownAddressReference which uses a pointer to your
sockaddr_in.
- Create an InternetAddress, then copy the address over its "name"
property.
Seems inconvenient to construct then copy over an object when I have the
data ready at the time of construction.
2) If it is agreed that there should be a shorter way, I'm willing to
write the code, but would need a little guidance as to where would be
the appropriate place to put the code (New overload to parseAddress?
New constructor for InternetAddress?)
A new constructor for InternetAddress won't hurt.
Done (for both InternetAddress and Internet6Address), pull request is in
progress.
Thanks for the input! (And to Adam too...)
