"Reflections" Documentation?

[SleepyCatGuy]

Any sources or docs were I can find out how to use reflections? I keep reading its a better option than access transformers but cant find anything on it. I also am seeing "@override" in source code for other mods, but I do not know if that is Reflections or something else entirely. I need to be able to change a private function to something else.

 

Sub-Question (I don't really need to know more of a want to know): is there a way to get a live object created from a class from another mod?

[ChampionAsh5357]

Reflection is a java concept, as such there's no documentation here. ObfuscationReflectionHelper is a forge added class as a wrapper to deal with changing method names due to mappings. However, this has full javadocs.

 

4 minutes ago, SleepyCatGuy said:

Sub-Question (I don't really need to know more of a want to know): is there a way to get a live object created from a class from another mod?

Sure, a registered object can be grabbed from the associated registry. Although you might want to add that mod as a dependency (either hard or soft) to better handle that case.

[diesieben07]

6 hours ago, ChampionAsh5357 said:

Sure, a registered object can be grabbed from the associated registry. Although you might want to add that mod as a dependency (either hard or soft) to better handle that case.

A good way to do this is to simply store a RegistryObject in a static final field using its of factory method.

[Draco18s]

13 hours ago, SleepyCatGuy said:

I also am seeing "@override" in source code for other mods, but I do not know if that is Reflections or something else entirely.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/overriding-in-java/