[4724] in java-interest
Re: misplaced method
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Graham)
Thu Jan 11 16:21:45 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:49:23 -0800
From: flar@bendenweyr.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Graham)
To: elliotte@blackstar.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
> > This should work:
> >
> > byte addr[] = {129, 144, 86, 116};
> > String host = new InetAddress(null, addr).getHostName();
> >
>
> This fails because there's no constructor matching InetAddress(null,
> byte array) in java.net.InetAddress. In fact there are no
> constructors in there at all. (You also need to cast those ints to
> bytes but that's easuily done.)
You're right. "null" by itself doesn't have a type. Try casting it
to a String:
String host = new InetAddress((String) null, addr).getHostName();
or:
String nullhost = null;
String host = new InetAddress(nullhost, addr).getHostName();
...jim
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