[1.8] Unreadable parameter/function names

[Norazan]

This might have been asked quite a few times already, but I am sort of new to Forge modding. Why do a lot of standard minecraft/forge methods and parameters have confusing names like p_78088_2_ ? I also can't seem to find any declaration on the methods. Is there any?

 

Thanks in advance.

[jcranky]

Not Forge's, but Minecraft's methods and fields are confusing because they are extracted from compiled code - which means that the original method and field names are usually lost.

 

As I understand it, the tools involved in the process do a best effort to extract those names, but that is a quite complex matter.

[Draco18s]

Those are the SRG names and they look like that because there hasn't been a friendly name applied to them yet, via MCPBot.

[Norazan]

Alright got it, thanks. Is there any way to figure out what the methods/fields stand for?

[Draco18s]

Looking at the code and seeing what it does.

[jcranky]

This is not quite true. If you just decompile code compiled with javac (the normal java compiler) you get back pretty much the original code. The names match and everything. Why not with Minecraft? Because Mojang uses an obfuscator in addition to the normal compiler. This program strips all unnecessary information and renames classes, fields and methods to meaningless things.

 

True, thank you for the correction. I somehow forgot to mention the obfuscator =)