package com.thealgorithms.conversions;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.util.Arrays;
/**
* A utility class for converting between IPv6 and IPv4 addresses.
*
* - Converts IPv4 to IPv6-mapped IPv6 address.
* - Extracts IPv4 address from IPv6-mapped IPv6.
* - Handles exceptions for invalid inputs.
*
* @author Hardvan
*/
public final class IPv6Converter {
private IPv6Converter() {
}
/**
* Converts an IPv4 address (e.g., "192.0.2.128") to an IPv6-mapped IPv6 address.
* Example: IPv4 "192.0.2.128" -> IPv6 "::ffff:192.0.2.128"
*
* @param ipv4Address The IPv4 address in string format.
* @return The corresponding IPv6-mapped IPv6 address.
* @throws UnknownHostException If the IPv4 address is invalid.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException If the IPv6 address is not a mapped IPv4 address.
*/
public static String ipv4ToIpv6(String ipv4Address) throws UnknownHostException {
if (ipv4Address == null || ipv4Address.isEmpty()) {
throw new UnknownHostException("IPv4 address is empty.");
}
InetAddress ipv4 = InetAddress.getByName(ipv4Address);
byte[] ipv4Bytes = ipv4.getAddress();
// Create IPv6-mapped IPv6 address (starts with ::ffff:)
byte[] ipv6Bytes = new byte[16];
ipv6Bytes[10] = (byte) 0xff;
ipv6Bytes[11] = (byte) 0xff;
System.arraycopy(ipv4Bytes, 0, ipv6Bytes, 12, 4);
// Manually format to "::ffff:x.x.x.x" format
StringBuilder ipv6String = new StringBuilder("::ffff:");
for (int i = 12; i < 16; i++) {
ipv6String.append(ipv6Bytes[i] & 0xFF);
if (i < 15) {
ipv6String.append('.');
}
}
return ipv6String.toString();
}
/**
* Extracts the IPv4 address from an IPv6-mapped IPv6 address.
* Example: IPv6 "::ffff:192.0.2.128" -> IPv4 "192.0.2.128"
*
* @param ipv6Address The IPv6 address in string format.
* @return The extracted IPv4 address.
* @throws UnknownHostException If the IPv6 address is invalid or not a mapped IPv4 address.
*/
public static String ipv6ToIpv4(String ipv6Address) throws UnknownHostException {
InetAddress ipv6 = InetAddress.getByName(ipv6Address);
byte[] ipv6Bytes = ipv6.getAddress();
// Check if the address is an IPv6-mapped IPv4 address
if (isValidIpv6MappedIpv4(ipv6Bytes)) {
byte[] ipv4Bytes = Arrays.copyOfRange(ipv6Bytes, 12, 16);
InetAddress ipv4 = InetAddress.getByAddress(ipv4Bytes);
return ipv4.getHostAddress();
} else {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not a valid IPv6-mapped IPv4 address.");
}
}
/**
* Helper function to check if the given byte array represents
* an IPv6-mapped IPv4 address (prefix 0:0:0:0:0:ffff).
*
* @param ipv6Bytes Byte array representation of the IPv6 address.
* @return True if the address is IPv6-mapped IPv4, otherwise false.
*/
private static boolean isValidIpv6MappedIpv4(byte[] ipv6Bytes) {
// IPv6-mapped IPv4 addresses are 16 bytes long, with the first 10 bytes set to 0,
// followed by 0xff, 0xff, and the last 4 bytes representing the IPv4 address.
if (ipv6Bytes.length != 16) {
return false;
}
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (ipv6Bytes[i] != 0) {
return false;
}
}
return ipv6Bytes[10] == (byte) 0xff && ipv6Bytes[11] == (byte) 0xff;
}
}