Grabbing an instance of GameData / iItemRegistry

[Mctittles]

Hey all.  Just wondering if there is a way to get an instance of GameData so I can look up an item by it's name in iItemRegistry using "findItem(String modId, String name)".

 

I see there is FMLCommonHandler.instance(), and not sure if I can get a GameData instance from that.  Thanks!

[Mctittles]

Awesome, I found it

 

FMLControlledNamespacedRegistry<Item> myDataInstance = GameData.getItemRegistry();
Item objectReturned = myDataInstance.getObject("moreMusic:record1");

[jabelar]

Yes, but I'm not quite sure that it is better practice to make your own field name to point to the instance.  Seems to me that it is more readable just using GameData methods as needed directly.  While modding on our own, we are of course free to name things how we want, it is generally best to practice programming as if you're part of a coding team, in which case readability (by other people) is an important principle.

[Mctittles]

Well I'm adding hundreds of items through a config and need to grab a random item from a list.  To me it seemed better to get the item back (numbered string) this way instead of storing another array of items since one already exists.

[jabelar]

You don't understand my point.  Any time you want to get the instance you can just use GameData.getItemRegistry().getObject() method directly.  You don't need to "store" the registry to use it because you can chain the getObject() method to the getItemRegistry() method.  Besides which, in Java when you "grabbed the instance" you actually aren't making a copy of it, you're just pointing to the one that already exists.

[Mctittles]

Ok I understand.  Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for originally.  I didn't find that method in the class when I checked before.