[wildfly-dev] IPv6 related utility classes in Wildfly / Elytron / ...

[Tomaž Cerar]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Tomas Hofman <thofman at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm working on an issue in Elytron, which requires validation of IPv6
> addresses. Potentially also normalizing IPv6 addresses and matching
> addresses by masks could be needed in future. For now I implemented my
> own validation code which may be good enough, but still, better would be
> to rely on proven utility class.
>
>
>
Do we use some standard library for such purposes, or is there such
> functionality in JBoss codebase somewhere? I found NetworkUtils class in
> wildfly-network package, which does some of that, but that can't be used
> in Elytron.
>
What is the use case?


>
> Are there some rules when considering new dependencies? For instance
> would Apache Commons Validator/Net represent conceivable dependencies
> for Elytron?
>
new runtime dependency? I would avoid them if possible.
Especially when it comes to Apache Commons * ...

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tomaz
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