RFR: 8315767: InetAddress: constructing objects from BSD literal addresses [v7]

[Michael McMahon]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:35:21 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > which lists the methods that parse as decimal only, and the new method which parses using the "loose" syntax.
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> That might not be practical: the only method that supports non decimal form is the new `ofBSDLiteral`. But any other method only support decimal notation. These include URL/URI, permissions, InetSocketAdderess, InetAddress, Socket/DatagramSocket constructors, etc... Building a comprehensive list would be both unpractical and difficult.

I think we only need to talk about the methods in InetAddress. Though it could be phrased as `ofPosixLiteral` supports decimal, hex and octal. All other parsing is decimal only.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18493#issuecomment-2063872720