Cofh RF api

[DestinySpork]

I want to add powered items/blocks to my mod and I want to use RF from Cofh. How do I implement the api? I know how to do it for a jar file, but the api comes as a zip file with stuff in.

I'm using Eclipse if that helps.

 

The api is here:

https://github.com/CoFH/RedstoneFlux-API

 

[N247S]

Propably the easiest way is to clone/fork the github repository, and save it localy on your computer. The next step is creating a new project in eclipse with the folder of the cloned repository as main directory. When you got that setup, you only need to refer it as a dependency in eclipse and in the gradle file!

 

Instead of saving a cloned repository, you can unpack the zipfile instead and do the same things as described above. Though updating the API is a bit less easier this way.

[DestinySpork]

Isn't the point of an API so you don't have to update it? So that you update the api and not the mod using the api

[Choonster]

If your mod requires another mod that embeds the RF API (e.g. CoFHCore, BuildCraft) or RF is an optional feature (i.e. you use

@Optional.Interface

to strip the interfaces when they're not present), you can put the API's source code in src/api/java (so you have src/api/java/cofh/api/CoFHAPIProps.java). This will compile your mod against these classes without including them in your mod's JAR.

 

If your mod is standalone, put the API in src/main/java instead. This will include the classes in your mod's JAR.