QPID-3351: Provide ability to specify the network interfaces

Added functions to find machines network interface names and addresses

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/trunk@1410362 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qpid/cpp/include/qpid/sys/SystemInfo.h b/qpid/cpp/include/qpid/sys/SystemInfo.h
index 7e5d372300..ec0e653881 100644
--- a/qpid/cpp/include/qpid/sys/SystemInfo.h
+++ b/qpid/cpp/include/qpid/sys/SystemInfo.h
@@ -53,6 +53,25 @@ QPID_COMMON_EXTERN bool getLocalHostname (Address &address);
 QPID_COMMON_EXTERN void getLocalIpAddresses (uint16_t port, std::vector<Address> &addrList);
 
 /**
+ * Get the names of all the network interfaces connected to
+ * this host.
+ * @param names Receives the list of interface names
+ */
+QPID_COMMON_EXTERN void getInterfaceNames(std::vector<std::string>& names );
+
+/**
+ * Get strings for each of the IP addresses associated with a named network
+ * interface.
+ * If there is no interface of that name an empty list will be returned.
+ *
+ * @param interface The name of the network interface
+ * @param addresses The list of the strings for the IP addresses are pushed on the back of this parameter
+ *                  to get just the list you need to clear the vector before using it.
+ * @return true if an interface of the correct name was found, false otherwise
+ */
+QPID_COMMON_EXTERN bool getInterfaceAddresses(const std::string& interface, std::vector<std::string>& addresses);
+
+/**
  * Retrieve system identifiers and versions. This is information that can
  * generally be retrieved via POSIX uname().
  *