MAC vendor lookup

Every connected device around the world comes with a unique Media Access Control address, or a MAC address. A common task a network administrator may come across is being able to identify a network device's manufacturer when given only a MAC address.

Basic Task

The task is to interface with one (or numerous) APIs that exist on the internet and retrieve the device manufacturer based on a supplied MAC address.

A MAC address that does not return a valid result should return the String "N/A". A error related to the network connectivity or the API should return a null result.

Java

<lang java> package com.jamesdonnell.MACVendor;

import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL;

/** MAC Vendor Lookup class.

* www.JamesDonnell.com
* @author James A. Donnell Jr. */

public class Lookup { /** Base URL for API. The API from www.macvendors.com was chosen. */ private static final String baseURL = "http://api.macvendors.com/";

/** Performs lookup on MAC address(es) supplied in arguments. * @param args MAC address(es) to lookup. */ public static void main(String[] args) { for (String arguments : args) System.out.println(arguments + ": " + get(arguments)); }

/** Performs lookup on supplied MAC address. * @param macAddress MAC address to lookup. * @return Manufacturer of MAC address. */ private static String get(String macAddress) { try { StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); URL url = new URL(baseURL + macAddress); HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); conn.setRequestMethod("GET"); BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())); String line; while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { result.append(line); } rd.close(); return result.toString(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { // MAC not found return "N/A"; } catch (IOException e) { // Error during lookup, either network or API. return null; } } } </lang>