Address Classes Design

The Address classes provide the higher-level details of Addresses for Sockets and access to the LowLevelAddress details.

The Address base class provides the common information for all types of addresses and a pure-virtual method to access the LowLevelAddress. This separate class minimizes bleed of the low-level details.

The Address base class also provides template methods for creating a temporary low-level address and to create an Address of the derived type from that temporary buffer.

Address derived classes for various addresses including InetAddress and LocalAddress (formerly Unix Domain Sockets) are provided. Callers may provide their own Address derived classes for other purposes.

See also

Low-Level Address Classes Design