Using INET types in prepared statements

Hi,

I am trying to create a prepared statement in JAVA via JDBC and one of
the parameters I need to set in the SQL statement is of type INET. As
there is no setInet() method how do I pass in the INET value into the
sql statement?

I have tried this:

" WHERE b.ip = ?::inet"

But I get "org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: cannot cast type
character varying to inet"

I also tried

" WHERE b.ip = ?"

And I get "org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: cannot cast type
character varying to inet"

I really want to use prepared statement as I have to run this SQL
statement over and over and it is supposed to be more efficient.

Can anyone help?

Cheers,

Nelson

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