com.voytechs.jnetstream.primitive.address
Class MacAddress

java.lang.Object
  com.voytechs.jnetstream.primitive.address.Address
      com.voytechs.jnetstream.primitive.address.MacAddress

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class MacAddress
extends Address

A Class for storing MAC Addresses

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.voytechs.jnetstream.primitive.address.Address

address, debug, DEFAULT_NUMBER_BASE, format, separator

Constructor Summary

MacAddress(byte[] address)
Main constructor taking the array of bytes as the address.

MacAddress(java.lang.String address)
Constructor taking a String as the address and converting to a byte array.

Method Summary

static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Test function for MacAddress
java.lang.String	toString() Convert to dot notation string representation of the address.

Methods inherited from class com.voytechs.jnetstream.primitive.address.Address

AND, AND, byteArrayValue, compare, compare, compareTo, EOR, EOR, equals, getByte, getByte, getRadix, INVERT, INVERT, longToByteArray, OR, OR, parseByteArray, setAddress, setByteArrayAddress, setFormat, setFormat, setRadix, setSeparator, stringValue, toByteArray, toString, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MacAddress

public MacAddress(byte[] address)

Main constructor taking the array of bytes as the address. Automatically sets the separator token to ':'

Parameters:

address - array of bytes making up the address.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if number of bytes is not 6.

MacAddress

public MacAddress(java.lang.String address)

Constructor taking a String as the address and converting to a byte array.

Parameters:

address - String making up the address.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if number of bytes is not 6.

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Convert to dot notation string representation of the address. If hostname is known then hostname.domain is returned other wise the appropriate numerical representation of the numerical address is returned as a String.

Overrides:

toString in class Address

Returns:

IP address in the dot notation.

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Test function for MacAddress

Parameters:

args - command line arguments