Getting the subtype amount for itemstacks

[DrEinsteinium]

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to get the amount of block/item subtypes from an itemstack. For example, wool has x amount of different colors, and the color is dependent on the metadata number behind the ID. How do I get the amount of metadata numbers wool has?

 

Here is my code so far: Essentially, it takes in this list and puts the itemid:meta into an itemstack and adds it to a hashmap along with the extra data given.

 

    public void importList(String url)
    {   String response = this.getResponse(url);
        String[] l = response.split(",");
                   
        for(int i = 0; i < l.length; i++)
        {
         String[] itmid = l[i].split("=");
         String[] metad = itmid[0].split(":");
         
         boolean all = false;      
         ItemStack item = new ItemStack(Integer.valueOf(metad[0].replace("null", "")), 1, 0);
      
         if(metad.length > 1 && metad[1] != null)
         {if(metad[1].contains("*"))            
                 all = true;
          else
             item.setItemDamage(Integer.valueOf(metad[1]));
         }

         if(all)
             for(int x = 0; x < item.getItemDamage(); x++)
             {
                 item.setItemDamage(x);
                 PluginRegistrar.registerYoutube(item, itmid[1]);
             }
         else
             {
                 PluginRegistrar.registerYoutube(item, itmid[1]);
             }
        
        }       
    }

 

For some reason, the item.getMaxDamage() method does not work for this and I am not sure why. However, it does work for items such as tools that have thousands of different damage values in their metadata.

 

Thanks.

[GotoLink]

There is no obvious way to get something like this. That value isn't run nor store anywhere.

 

I'd go with using on a new list:

Item#getSubItems(int,CreativeTabs,List)

then get the list size.