IP Address Functions(3.2)

All functions support both IPv4 and IPv6. The results from some functions may however depend on the underlying system configuration.

getHostname

Returns the fully qualified domain name of the host on which the workflow is active. This is the best effort method, meaning we may not be able to return the FQDN depending on the underlying system configuration.

string getHostname()
ParameterDescription

Parameters:

None.

Returns

The hostname as a string.

getIPAddress

Returns the IP address of the local host.

string getIPAddress()
ParameterDescription

Parameters:

None

Returns

The raw IP address as a string

ipAddressString

Extracts the IP address part from a variable of type ipaddress.

string ipAddressString(ipaddress ipa )
ParameterDescription

ipa

An IP address

Returns

The IP address as a string, e g "10.0.3.22"

ipFromAddress

Converts the bytearray representation into an ipaddress type. Refer to Data Types(3.2) for further information about ipaddress type.

ipaddress ipFromAddress ( bytearray address )
ParameterDescription

address

The IP address as a bytearray. IPv4 address bytearray must be 4 bytes long and IPv6 bytearray must be 16 bytes long.

Returns

The IP address as an ipaddress type.

ipFromHostname

Given a string containing the IP address (numerical presentation), or hostname, a variable of type ipaddress is returned.

Note!

This function can be time consuming if DNS has to be accessed.

ipaddress ipFromHostname ( string host )
ParameterDescription

host

The name of the host

Returns

The IP address provided by the DNS server

ipIsV6Address

Evaluate if the IP address represents an IPv6 address.

boolean ipIsV6Address()(ipaddress ipa )

Parameters:

ParameterDescription

ipa

The IP address to evaluate

Returns

true if the address is IPv6, false otherwise.

ipLocalHost

Returns the IP address of the local host.

ipaddress ipLocalHost()
ParameterDescription

Returns

The IP address of the local host

ipToAddress

Returns the numerical representation of an IP address for example (10.0.3.22) as elements of a bytearray.

bytearray ipToAddress ( ipaddress ipa )
ParameterDescription

ipa

An IP address

Returns

A bytearray representation of the IP address; for example [ 10 0 3 22 ].

ipToHostname

Extracts the fully qualified domain name part from a variable of type ipaddress. The host running the EC must have DNS setup. Note that this method may be time consuming.

string ipToHostname( ipaddress ipa )
ParameterDescription

ipa

An IP address.

Returns

The hostname corresponding to the given IP address.