Fix for issue 439. UDP API changed to derive from Stream. The old sendPacket and readPacket calls have been removed, and replaced with Stream-derived alternatives which provide more commonality with other communications classes and to allow both buffered and full-packet-at-a-time uses. Also includes the introduction of an IPAddress class to make passing them around easier (and require fewer pointers to be exposed)

libraries/Ethernet/IPAddress.h

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+/*
+ *
+ * MIT License:
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Adrian McEwen
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+ * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+ * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+ * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+ * 
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+ * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ * 
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+ * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+ * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+ * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+ * THE SOFTWARE.
+ *
+ * adrianm@mcqn.com 1/1/2011
+ */
+
+#ifndef IPAddress_h
+#define IPAddress_h
+
+// A class to make it easier to handle and pass around IP addresses
+
+class IPAddress {
+private:
+    uint8_t _address[4];  // IPv4 address
+
+public:
+    // Constructors
+    IPAddress();
+    IPAddress(uint8_t first_octet, uint8_t second_octet, uint8_t third_octet, uint8_t fourth_octet);
+    IPAddress(uint32_t address);
+    IPAddress(const uint8_t *address);
+
+    // Overloaded cast operator to allow IPAddress objects to be used where a pointer
+    // to a four-byte uint8_t array is expected
+    operator uint8_t*() { return _address; };
+
+    // Overloaded index operator to allow getting and setting individual octets of the address
+    uint8_t operator[](int index) const { return _address[index]; };
+    uint8_t& operator[](int index) { return _address[index]; };
+
+    // Overloaded copy operators to allow initialisation of IPAddress objects from other types
+    IPAddress& operator=(const uint8_t *address);
+    IPAddress& operator=(uint32_t address);
+};
+
+#endif