How to examine inventories from client side?

[McJty]

Hi all,

 

I made a block that scans the surroundings and finds all inventories. That part works fine. In it's GUI it shows a list of all inventories that it found. Now I want to add the functionality that when the user clicks on an inventory it should show all items that are in that inventory. It partially works for all inventories for which the tile entity happens to be up-to-date on the client. But for most inventories that's not the case.

 

How can I reliably get the contents of an inventory at x,y,z from the client side? Is there a way to access the server-side tile entity(inventory)? Any other way I can solve this problem?

 

Thanks!

[McJty]

Solved. In case you're wondering. You have to do this on the server. So I send a message from my GUI to the server. That fetches the inventory and then in the reply of my message I send back the list of items. Works perfectly.