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Set of interfaces used by other SKB projects.

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/* Copyright 2016 Sven van der Meer 
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */

package de.vandermeer.skb.interfaces;

import java.net.InetAddress;

/**
 * Methods to retrieve standard information from a network connection.
 *
 * @author     Sven van der Meer <[email protected]>
 * @version    v0.0.1 build 170404 (04-Apr-17) for Java 1.8
 * @since      v0.0.1
 */
public interface Network {

	/**
	 * Returns the host name of the current process.
	 * @return host name, null on error
	 */
	static String getHostname(){
		String ret = null;
		try{
			ret = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName();
		}
		catch(Exception e){ }
		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the IP address of the current process.
	 * @return IP address, null on error
	 */
	static InetAddress getIpAddress(){
		InetAddress ret = null;
		try{
			ret = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
		}
		catch(Exception e){ }
		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the IP address of the current process.
	 * @return IP address, null on error
	 */
	static String getIpAddressAsString(){
		String ret = null;
		try{
			ret = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress();
		}
		catch(Exception e){ }
		return ret;
	}
}