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Interface IAddress

All Known Subinterfaces:

IMulticastAddress, IUnicastAddress

public interface IAddress

The IAddress interface for all existing addresses. This interface adopts two kinds of addresses: UNICAST and MULTICAST.

Author:

Vladimir Schöner

Field Summary

static byte	MULTICAST A constant holding the value for the multicast address.
static byte	UNICAST A constant holding the value for a unicast address.

Method Summary

byte	getType() Returns the byte value for the address type.
String	toString() Returns the string representation for the address.

Field Detail

UNICAST

static final byte UNICAST

A constant holding the value for a unicast address.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

MULTICAST

static final byte MULTICAST

A constant holding the value for the multicast address.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

toString

String toString()

Returns the string representation for the address.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

the string representation for the address.

getType

byte getType()

Returns the byte value for the address type.

Returns:

the value for the given address.