IPv6 validation

Question

I used IPAddressUtil.isIPv6LiteralAddress (ipAddress) method to validate IPv6, but this method fails for ipv6-address/prefix-length format (format is mentioned

Answer 1

You can use the Guava library, specifically using the com.google.common.net.InetAddresses class, calling isInetAddress().

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isInetAddress

public static boolean isInetAddress(String ipString)

Returns true if the supplied string is a valid IP string literal, false otherwise.

Parameters: ipString - String to evaluated as an IP string literal

Returns: true if the argument is a valid IP string literal