Method fromString

src/main/java/core/org/xbill/DNS/Record.java:445–478

Builds a new Record from its textual representation @param name The owner name of the record. @param type The record's type. @param dclass The record's class. @param ttl The record's time to live. @param st A tokenizer containing the textual representation of the rdata. @param origin The default ori

(Name name, int type, int dclass, long ttl, Tokenizer st, Name origin)

 * @throws IOException The text format was invalid.
 */
public static Record
fromString(Name name, int type, int dclass, long ttl, Tokenizer st, Name origin)
throws IOException
{
	Record rec;

	if (!name.isAbsolute())
		throw new RelativeNameException(name);
	Type.check(type);
	DClass.check(dclass);
	TTL.check(ttl);

	Tokenizer.Token t = st.get();
	if (t.type == Tokenizer.IDENTIFIER && t.value.equals("\\#")) {
		int length = st.getUInt16();
		byte [] data = st.getHex();
		if (data == null) {
			data = new byte[0];
		}
		if (length != data.length)
			throw st.exception("invalid unknown RR encoding: " +
					   "length mismatch");
		DNSInput in = new DNSInput(data);
		return newRecord(name, type, dclass, ttl, length, in);
	}
	st.unget();
	rec = getEmptyRecord(name, type, dclass, ttl, true);
	rec.rdataFromString(st, origin);
	t = st.get();
	if (t.type != Tokenizer.EOL && t.type != Tokenizer.EOF) {
		throw st.exception("unexpected tokens at end of record");
	}
	return rec;
}

/**
 * Builds a new Record from its textual representation