On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:02:05 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Should we be setting any expectations by specifying what > InetAddress.getHostAddress() will return for an Inet4Address constructed > using this new Inet4Address.ofPosixLiteral() method? In its current form I > believe it will continue to return a decimal representation of the IP > address. My guess is that we want it to continue behaving that way? In the InetAddress class level API documentation we have: * <p> For methods that return a textual representation as output * value, the first form, i.e. a dotted-quad string, is used. Do you think it should be reiterated in the `@apiNote` of the `ofPosixLiteral` method? ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18493#issuecomment-2061370892