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-rw-r--r--libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java41
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java b/libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java
index 91e3490..fcdd88c 100644
--- a/libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java
+++ b/libjava/java/net/InetAddress.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ package java.net;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* @author Per Bothner
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
* @specnote This class is not final since JK 1.4
*/
-public class InetAddress implements java.io.Serializable
+public class InetAddress implements Serializable
{
// The Serialized Form specifies that an int 'address' is saved/restored.
// This class uses a byte array internally so we'll just do the conversion
@@ -80,6 +81,11 @@ public class InetAddress implements java.io.Serializable
family = getFamily (address);
}
+ /**
+ * Utility routine to check if the InetAddress is an IP multicast address
+ *
+ * @since 1.1
+ */
public boolean isMulticastAddress ()
{
int len = addr.length;
@@ -127,6 +133,11 @@ public class InetAddress implements java.io.Serializable
}
}
+ /**
+ * Returns the IP address as string
+ *
+ * @since 1.0.2
+ */
public String getHostAddress ()
{
StringBuffer sbuf = new StringBuffer(40);
@@ -204,6 +215,9 @@ public class InetAddress implements java.io.Serializable
return true;
}
+ /**
+ * Returns then <code>InetAddress</code> as string
+ */
public String toString()
{
return getHostName()+'/'+getHostAddress();
@@ -215,7 +229,7 @@ public class InetAddress implements java.io.Serializable
* The argument is in network byte order: the highest order byte of the
* address is in getAddress()[0].
*
- * @exception UnknownHostException If no IP address for the host could
+ * @exception UnknownHostException If IP address has illegal length
* be found
*
* @since 1.4
@@ -236,6 +250,14 @@ public class InetAddress implements java.io.Serializable
private static native InetAddress[] lookup
(String hostname, InetAddress addr, boolean all);
+ /**
+ * Determines the IP address of a host, given the host's name.
+ *
+ * @exception UnknownHostException If no IP address for the host could
+ * be found
+ * @exception SecurityException If a security manager exists and its
+ * checkConnect method doesn't allow the operation
+ */
public static InetAddress getByName (String host)
throws UnknownHostException
{
@@ -249,6 +271,15 @@ public class InetAddress implements java.io.Serializable
return iaddr;
}
+ /**
+ * Given the name of a host, returns an array of its IP addresses,
+ * based on the configured name service on the system.
+ *
+ * @exception UnknownHostException If no IP address for the host could
+ * be found
+ * @exception SecurityException If a security manager exists and its
+ * checkConnect method doesn't allow the operation
+ */
public static InetAddress[] getAllByName (String host)
throws UnknownHostException
{
@@ -272,6 +303,12 @@ public class InetAddress implements java.io.Serializable
private static InetAddress localhost = null;
+ /**
+ * Returns the local host
+ *
+ * @exception UnknownHostException If no IP address for the host could
+ * be found
+ */
public static InetAddress getLocalHost() throws UnknownHostException
{
SecurityManager s = System.getSecurityManager();