Correct IP validation logic order-of-operations #92
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This pull request fixes the logic used for validating IP addresses.
Old code:
In pseudocode
The existing code evaluates regexes.ipv6.test(value) regardless of whether existy(value) returns true or false. This happens due to the parenthesis placement, which only associates existy(value) with regexes.ipv4.test(value).
New code:
In psuedocode:
The updated logic ensures that both regexes.ipv4.test(value) and regexes.ipv6.test(value) are evaluated only if existy(value) is true. This is achieved by encompassing the OR condition within parentheses, applying the existy(value) check to both IPv4 and IPv6 conditions.
Presumably the ipv6 regex doesn't throw an error when handling a null value, or you would have had bug reports about this before. So you could also consider just removing the null check. But if you want to keep the null check in there for efficiency, to quickly return false without applying the ipv4 regex if there is nothing to check, then this pull request will double that efficiency gain by also avoiding applying the ipv6 regex check to null values, without any additional null checking.