# abstract struct Socket::Address

- Socket::Address
- Struct
- Value
- Object

## Direct Known Subclasses

- Socket::IPAddress
- Socket::UNIXAddress

## Defined in:

## Constructors

- .from(sockaddr : Pointer(LibC::Sockaddr), addrlen) : Address

  Returns either an `IPAddress` or `UNIXAddres` from the internal OS representation.

- .new(family : Family, size : Int32)

## Class Method Summary

- .parse(uri : URI)

  Parses a `Socket::Address` from an URI.

- .parse(uri : String)

  Parses a `Socket::Address` from an URI.

## Instance Method Summary

- #==(other)
- #family : Family
- #size : Int32
- #to_unsafe : Pointer(LibC::Sockaddr)

### Instance methods inherited from struct `Struct`

==(other) : Bool ==, hash(hasher) hash, inspect(io : IO) : Nil inspect, pretty_print(pp) : Nil pretty_print, to_s(io) to_s

### Instance methods inherited from struct `Value`

==(other : JSON::Any)
==(other : YAML::Any)
==(other) ==, dup dup

### Instance methods inherited from class `Object`

!=(other) !=, !~(other) !~, ==(other) ==, ===(other : JSON::Any)
===(other : YAML::Any)
===(other) ===, =~(other) =~, class class, dup dup, hash(hasher)
hash hash, inspect(io : IO)
inspect inspect, itself itself, not_nil! not_nil!, pretty_inspect(width = 79, newline = "\n", indent = 0) : String pretty_inspect, pretty_print(pp : PrettyPrint) : Nil pretty_print, tap(&block) tap, to_json(io : IO)
to_json to_json, to_pretty_json(indent : String = " ")
to_pretty_json(io : IO, indent : String = " ") to_pretty_json, to_s
to_s(io : IO) to_s, to_yaml(io : IO)
to_yaml to_yaml, try(&block) try, unsafe_as(type : T.class) forall T unsafe_as

### Constructor methods inherited from class `Object`

from_json(string_or_io, root : String) : self
from_json(string_or_io) : self from_json, from_yaml(string_or_io : String | IO) : self from_yaml

## Constructor Detail

def self.from(sockaddr : Pointer(LibC::Sockaddr), addrlen) : Address #

Returns either an `IPAddress` or `UNIXAddres` from the internal OS representation. Only INET, INET6 and UNIX families are supported.

def self.new(family : Family, size : Int32) #

## Class Method Detail

def self.parse(uri : URI) #

Parses a `Socket::Address` from an URI.

Supported formats:

- `ip://:`
- `tcp://:`
- `udp://:`
- `unix://`

See `IPAddress.parse` and `UNIXAddress.parse` for details.

def self.parse(uri : String) #

Parses a `Socket::Address` from an URI.

Supported formats:

- `ip://:`
- `tcp://:`
- `udp://:`
- `unix://`

See `IPAddress.parse` and `UNIXAddress.parse` for details.

## Instance Method Detail

def ==(other) #
def family : Family #
def size : Int32 #
abstract def to_unsafe : Pointer(LibC::Sockaddr) #