Java 14 - Change in InetSocketAddress.toString() behaviour seems to be causing issues

[Jaikiran Pai]

Thank you Chris.

-Jaikiran

On 01/04/20 6:40 pm, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>
>
>> On 1 Apr 2020, at 13:48, Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2013 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jai.forums2013 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Now that you explained it to me, I see what you mean and what that
>>>> javadoc means. I hadn't paid attention to the "This String is
>>>> constructed by calling toString() on the InetAddress and
>>>> concatenating the port number (with a colon)". Looking at the
>>>> javadoc on InetAddress.toString(), it does state the returned
>>>> string to be of the form "hostname/literal IP address" (example:
>>>> google.com/172.217.160.142 <http://google.com/172.217.160.142>). So
>>>> when it says that "<unresolved> is displayed in place of the
>>>> address literal", it actually is talking about the part that
>>>> follows the "/" character in the output returned by the
>>>> InetAddress.toString().
>>>>
>>>> I'll be honest - I didn't even know that up until this release, the
>>>> output of this API was something like google.com/172.217.160.142:80
>>>> <http://google.com/172.217.160.142:80>. I had it in my mind that
>>>> the output was google.com:80 <http://google.com:80>. That's why
>>>> when the new javadoc said "in place of the address literal", I
>>>> thought it was talking about replacing "google.com
>>>> <http://google.com>" with "<unresolved>"
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if it's just me who couldn't fully understand it until
>>>> this was explained. For me, a {@link InetSocket.toString()} in the
>>>> javadoc and a couple of example representations of what the output
>>>> of toString() would look like would have made it easier. But I do
>>>> understand that the javadoc may not be the right place for such
>>>> level of details.
>>>>
> We can improve the spec wording of this method.
>
> I filed the following issue to track just that:
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8241995
>
> -Chris.
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