What is this?

This is the network module of bigtoolbox. My lofty goal with this is to have a lot of networking related functions implemented here that will work regardless of OS (within reason). Currently, the Windows WiFi functionality is the focus and is in a state of WIP.

Usage in your project

More instructions for using this will come when this is out of alpha.

Important dependency note

A dependency of this project uses SLF4J. This library does not provide any SLF4J bindings, so you may see an error in your console that looks like the following.

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.

If you are using bigtoolbox-network as a dependency in your project, you should do the following.

If your project is an application

If your application is something an end-user will be running and not an artifact that another project will use as a dependency, you can remove the SLF4J message by placing the following in your POM.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
  <artifactId>slf4j-nop</artifactId>
  <version>1.7.25</version>
</dependency>

If you already have an SLF4J binding (such as logback-classic from ch.qos.logback), you shouldn't need to add the above snippet to your POM.

If your project is a library

You don't need to do anything. If you have a bunch of tests that are throwing the above message into the console, and it really bothers you, put the following in the <depencencies> section of your pom.xml file.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
  <artifactId>slf4j-nop</artifactId>
  <version>1.7.25</version>
  <!-- This gets rid of annoying SLF4J error when running classes directly in this library without
   dumping SLF4J-NOP onto the classpath of projects that depend on this library. -->
  <optional>true</optional>
</dependency>

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