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; } }