Minecraft Libraries and the Obfuscator

[yoshiquest]

As some of you might know, I've been working on a library to add support for the Clojure programming language to Minecraft.

It's going pretty well, in that I've added quite a few basic features to it. And it does work right now, but....

 

The code is messy as heck. I'm having worries that at this rate it'll either become a pain to maintain, or cause other problems later. The main problem I've run into involves minecraft forge's obfuscator/deobfuscator. Mainly if I simply reference a field in the library, and then try to access it from the mod implementing it, it tries to get the obfuscated version and fails to build. While I was able to get around this with a try/catch block, this seems way messier than it probably really is.

 

So the real question is: how do other people create libraries/apis? Mainly, is there a separate version for developers? If so, how do you create a jar like that (that uses deobfuscated code rather than obfuscated code) using forge gradle?

[Ernio]

Yes, APIs are usually released in 2 versions: Dev (deobf) and User (obf).

 

Edit: Ok, idk, can't find exact line, gotta wait for big guys. ;P

[yoshiquest]

Yes, APIs are usually released in 2 versions: Dev (deobf) and User (obf).

 

Edit: Ok, idk, can't find exact line, gotta wait for big guys. ;P

 

Well, thanks anyways. At least I know it's possible now.

[yoshiquest]

This and this.

 

Ah, thanks! This should help me clean things up a bit.