LocalAddress and Ephemeral ports - how do I find out where Netty bound?

["Trustin Lee (이희승)"]

I forgot to mention that the ephmeral port in LocalAddress does not have
any specific port number.  It's just a boolean flag.

Trustin Lee (이희승) wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> Are you using the local transport?  The local transport is not
> compatible to the socket transport.  It uses completely different
> address type - LocalAddress, and it does not accept InetSocketAddress.
> 
> There was a request about adding a variant of the local transport that
> is compatible with the socket transport.  I might work on it in the next
> major feature release:
> 
>     https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/NETTY-212
> 
> Please put a watch on it so that you are notified on resolution.
> Perhaps you could even contribute! :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Trustin
> 
> Florian Leibert wrote:
>> I want to use an Ephemeral port for my Netty service. (useful b/c I want to
>> run multiple services on one physical machine, unit tests etc.) Binding
>> seems easy, just using a new LocalAddress(LocalAddress.EPHEMERAL) - what I
>> found odd was that binding to a InetSocketAddress(0) doesn't seem to work
>> (which usually will ask the OS for a available port. 
>>
>> The question is, how do I obtain the port that Netty bound to using the
>> LocalAddress mechanism? 
>>
>> Thanks, 
>> Florian
> 

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