API for own mod mc 1.8[Solved!]

[Soulas97]

so hello guys its rolik here, and i was woundering how can i make own api for some of my mods ? is there any tutorials for that? api would allow people to create addons for mods, that would awesome to see what people can think of

[sham1]

API is just an exposed methods and interfaces. Can you specify what you want to do with your API.

[Draco18s]

First up:

Anything you can do with IMC messages, do with IMC messages.  You can get really far with this alone if you work hard enough.  While an IMC message types only have 1 message that passes ItemStacks (and only a single stack), you can get more information across than that using the NBT method (as ItemStacks can be converted to NBT data and back again).

 

That said, there may be more complex information that isn't encodable via messages, such as interfaces or recipe lookups.  In order to do anything with your API you need to know what it is that you want from your API.

 

My best advice would be that whatever your API does, use your own API in your own code.  This is the best way to insuring that your API functions correctly.  Secondly, if you ever need to change your API, mark the old methods as @deprecated and leave them in there, even if they do nothing.  The worst thing you can do is have a mod use your API and go dormant (i.e. no longer getting updates for whatever reason) and then you change your API around and delete things or move things.  Now that mod will crash trying to use your new API and people will complain to that mod's author, not you, which will make them very upset.

 

Finally, take a look at some other mods' APIs.  Here's one of mine, which I modeled on Mystcraft's approach, as I really liked that approach.  Inside HardLibAPI are some static objects (set to null) which would be instanced by my mod when run.  The interfaces give visibility to what methods are available (including documentation), without having to supply any actual code.

[Soulas97]

my api would allow users to create addons, custom mobs, items, and crafting recipes, same way as lucky block mod works

[Draco18s]

Then you should go look at how Lucky Blocks API works.

[Soulas97]

i don't know where to find it, there isn't any url for download

[Soulas97]

i don't know where to find it, there isn't any url for download

 

show me example api with item/mob creation if you can

[Draco18s]

i don't know where to find it, there isn't any url for download

 

Download the jar file and open it with JD-GUI