Add IPv6Converter algorithm (#5783)

src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/conversions/IPv6Converter.java

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+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;
+    }
+}