BTW, the ZoneID is *not* an ifindex, it is a zone id.  (See RFC 4007.)
On some platforms, the zone id of a link local address might happen to be an 
ifindex,
but any code that blindly assumes for all OS's is inherently broken.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: iotivity-dev-bounces at lists.iotivity.org [mailto:iotivity-dev-
> bounces at lists.iotivity.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 6:50 PM
> To: ???(Uze Choi) <uzchoi at samsung.com>
> Cc: iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org
> Subject: Re: [dev] OcResource->getHost() api gives a tricky host address in
> Android
> 
> On quarta-feira, 27 de julho de 2016 10:12:05 PDT ???(Uze Choi) wrote:
> > [UZ] constructResourceObject(String host, String uri,
> > connectivityTypeSet
> > ...)  -->  constructResourceObject(<List> Endpoints {
> > addr[MAX_ADDR_STR_SIZE], ifindex...} , ...) will resolve your concern.
> 
> I don't like this. This makes the API worse. If the ifindex can be stored in 
> the
> URI in the form of ZoneID, why would we keep it outside? Passing a struct
> instead of a string also makes the API more cumbersome to use.
> 
> > So,
> > We can exclude interface name from OCDecAddr->addr[].
> >         typedef struct{
> >             OCTransportAdapter      adapter;    /** adapter type.*/
> >             OCTransportFlags        flags;              /** transport
> > modifiers.*/
> >             uint16_t                port;               /** for IP.*/
> >             char                    addr[MAX_ADDR_STR_SIZE];    /** address
> > for all adapters.*/
> >             uint32_t                ifindex;    /** usually zero for
> > default interface.*/
> > } OCDevAddr;
> 
> I'm also ok with passing a list of OCDevAddr in the API instead of a list of 
> URIs.
> 
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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