Method forString

guava/src/com/google/common/net/InetAddresses.java:161–172

Returns the {@link InetAddress} having the given string representation. <p>This deliberately avoids all nameservice lookups (e.g. no DNS). <p>IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses (e.g. {@code "::ffff:192.168.0.1"}) are returned as {@link Inet4Address} objects, not {@link Inet6Address}. This is consistent wi

(String ipString)

   *     required by Java's {@link InetAddress})
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue // TODO(b/219820829): consider removing
  public static InetAddress forString(String ipString) {
    Scope scope = new Scope();
    byte[] addr = ipStringToBytes(ipString, scope);

    // The argument was malformed, i.e. not an IP string literal.
    if (addr == null) {
      throw formatIllegalArgumentException("'%s' is not an IP string literal.", ipString);
    }

    return bytesToInetAddress(addr, scope.scope);
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if the supplied string is a valid IP string literal, {@code false}