From 8030eabc147325e24fadd12653edf23cdff51545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Brandhof <simon.brandhof@sonarsource.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:13:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] SONAR-4898 do not use IPv6 loopback address

Conflict with -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true recommended for ES
---
 .../main/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddress.java   | 10 +++++-----
 .../java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddressTest.java    |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/process/sonar-process/src/main/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddress.java b/server/process/sonar-process/src/main/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddress.java
index da70cac778c..17366850be3 100644
--- a/server/process/sonar-process/src/main/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddress.java
+++ b/server/process/sonar-process/src/main/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddress.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 package org.sonar.process;
 
 import java.net.Inet4Address;
-import java.net.Inet6Address;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
 import java.net.NetworkInterface;
 import java.net.SocketException;
@@ -35,8 +34,9 @@ public class LoopbackAddress {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Similar to InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress() which was introduced in Java 7. This
-   * method aims to support Java 6.
+   * Quite similar to InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress() which was introduced in Java 7. This
+   * method aims to support Java 6. It returns an IPv4 address, but not IPv6 in order to
+   * support -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true recommended for Elasticsearch
    */
   public static InetAddress get() {
     if (instance == null) {
@@ -57,14 +57,14 @@ public class LoopbackAddress {
       Enumeration<InetAddress> addresses = iface.getInetAddresses();
       while (addresses.hasMoreElements()) {
         InetAddress addr = addresses.nextElement();
-        if (addr.isLoopbackAddress()) {
+        if (addr.isLoopbackAddress() && addr instanceof Inet4Address) {
           result = addr;
           break;
         }
       }
     }
     if (result == null) {
-      throw new IllegalStateException("Impossible to get a IP loopback address");
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Impossible to get a IPv4 loopback address");
     }
     return result;
   }
diff --git a/server/process/sonar-process/src/test/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddressTest.java b/server/process/sonar-process/src/test/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddressTest.java
index 0e4885a6407..6a8819c3a81 100644
--- a/server/process/sonar-process/src/test/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddressTest.java
+++ b/server/process/sonar-process/src/test/java/org/sonar/process/LoopbackAddressTest.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public class LoopbackAddressTest {
       LoopbackAddress.doGet(ifaces);
       fail();
     } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
-      assertThat(e).hasMessage("Impossible to get a IP loopback address");
+      assertThat(e).hasMessage("Impossible to get a IPv4 loopback address");
     }
   }
 }
-- 
2.39.5