Avoid using InetAddress - Getting a raw IP address in network byte order
- by Mylo
Hey,
I am trying to use the MaxMind GeoLite Country database on the Google App Engine. However, I am having difficulty getting the Java API to work as it relies on the InetAddress class which is not available to use on the App Engine.
However, I am not sure if there is a simple workaround as it appears it only uses the InetAddress class to determine the IP of a given hostname. In my case, the hostname is always an IP anyway.
What I need is a way to convert an IP address represented as a String into a byte array of network byte order (which the addr.getAddress() method of the InetAddress class provides).
This is the code the current API uses, I need to find a way of removing all references to InetAddress whilst ensuring it still works!
Thanks for your time.
/**
* Returns the country the IP address is in.
*
* @param ipAddress String version of an IP address, i.e. "127.0.0.1"
* @return the country the IP address is from.
*/
public Country getCountry(String ipAddress) {
InetAddress addr;
try {
addr = InetAddress.getByName(ipAddress);
}
catch (UnknownHostException e) {
return UNKNOWN_COUNTRY;
}
return getCountry(bytesToLong(addr.getAddress()));
}
