Use reflections in ForgeGradle to load items

[FabioTNT]

Hi guys,

I'm new to mod development, and I was trying to automatize the item class loading, but I encountered some issues

https://pastes.dev/LJCntOdstn

I'm trying to load items via this method, but the itemClasses set is always empty.

https://pastes.dev/18zFWpIOiJ

This is my build.gradle file

[LexManos]

1) No idea what 'Reflections' is, but it seems like black magic that will probably not work.
2) There is no way to get all potential classes in a package, so there is no way to magically 'find' these implementation classes.
3) It's better to manually init your registry objects in one location using a deferred register.
4) This has nothing to do with FG, this is runtime stuff.

[FabioTNT]

There is a way to find all the all the subtypes of a class in a package. It's exactly what reflections are used for.

I'm guessing that it could be a mapping problem, but I have no clue how to correctly implement reflections in ForgeGradle.

 

[FabioTNT]

Ok, but If in future I would like to use reflections to maybe load some modules in an infernal module system, how could I implement that correctly?

[LexManos]

23 hours ago, FabioTNT said:

There is a way to find all the all the subtypes of a class in a package. It's exactly what reflections are used for.

I'm guessing that it could be a mapping problem, but I have no clue how to correctly implement reflections in ForgeGradle.

 

No, it's not because classes can be added to the runtime at any point, so whatever  you're doing is most likely not reliable.
Which is why I said it seems like black magic and probably won't work. Feel free to actually show us what it is so we can understand your context.