How to get enabled state & availability (bulk)?

how do you get the state & availability for a list of IPPortDefinitions? the closest thing i can find are the get_node_address_states & get_node_address_availability functions. only problem being these functions don't accept an IPPortDefinition, but a string array of node_ips. this seems incosistent considering the get_state & get_availability functions use an IPPortDefinition :?: