RFR: 8315767: InetAddress: constructing objects from BSD literal addresses [v5]

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:02:05 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at 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?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18493#issuecomment-2061370892