I'm trying to get into modding and am looking at this code here as an example, but when I get to

public void preInit(FMLPreInitializationEvent event)
{
	logger = event.getModLog();
	System.out.print("Called event handler PreInit");
}

 

Eclipse tells me that there is an error with event.getModLog(), saying "The method getModLog() from the type FMLPreInitializationEvent refers to the missing type Logger". How can I fix this?

 

Edit for clarity: I do have import java.util.logging.Logger in my  import statements.

 

EDIT AFTER RESOLUTION: I don't know what shenanigans Eclipse pulled, but one of the quick-fix options that I hadn't tried before, "fix setup," automagically fixed the problem.

Minecraft uses log4j (

org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger

), not

java.util.logging.Logger

.

I see. How do I get that into my project? I'm still rather new to all this...

If you've set up your ForgeGradle workspace and IDE properly, you should already have log4j as a dependency. Just delete the

java.util.logging.Logger

import and replace it with a

org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger

import.

This will do. Dont forget to replace the imports!

 

Logger mylogger = LogManager.getLogger("myLoggerName");

If you've set up your ForgeGradle workspace and IDE properly, you should already have log4j as a dependency. Just delete the

java.util.logging.Logger

import and replace it with a

org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger

import.

 

I thought I did, but it doesn't seem to be a valid import; Eclips says that "

The import org.apache cannot be resolved

"

 

 

If you've set up your ForgeGradle workspace and IDE properly, you should already have log4j as a dependency. Just delete the

java.util.logging.Logger

import and replace it with a

org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger

import.

 

I thought I did, but it doesn't seem to be a valid import; Eclips says that "

The import org.apache cannot be resolved

"

 

I suggest running

gradlew setupDecompWorkspace eclipse

again to set up the ForgeGradle workspace and recreate the Eclipse project.

Run it in the folder where I have my Eclipse workspace, right?

Run it in the folder where I have my Eclipse workspace, right?

 

Run it in the directory where build.gradle is.

Nothing seems to have changed; I can see

log4l-api-2.0-beta9.jar

and

log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar

in Forge's

Referenced Libraries

folder, but the import in my project still has the same error. I also noticed that there is a second error message at the top of the file saying "

The type org.apache.log4j.Logger cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

" Do I need to do something with my build path?

Sorry for the double-post bit I had a thought: could the problem be related to the fact that I'm using Eclipse EE?

I'm not too sure what's going wrong.

 

Can you access classes from other referenced libraries (e.g.

com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet

from Guava or

org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils

from Apache Commons)?

Sorry for the double-post bit I had a thought: could the problem be related to the fact that I'm using Eclipse EE?

 

No, I use that on some computers.

 

There are a few things that could be going for you:

1) On slower computers, sometimes the IDE takes a while to figure out everything. If you think about what the IDE is doing it is pretty amazing that it can do the real-time warnings -- it literally has to parse all the code in the file, figure out the context, follow imports if needed, etc. So maybe your computer just needs time to catch up. Maybe right-click on the project hierarchy and refresh the project, or also look at the build path settings.

2) Typographical error. Just takes one character wrong to make the computer declare a mis-match. I usually have Eclipse set to update imports automatically upon save. So I would delete all the imports and have them re-populated by Eclipse. In the cases where there are multiple possibilities then it should prompt you for which one you want.

3) Something got screwed up in the project. Try re-running the gradlew setupDecompWorkspace and gradlew eclipse commands again. If that doesn't work, maybe start fresh -- download Forge, set it up and take the example project and try to simply add the logger.

4) If all else fails, try another computer.