[DEV] OddItem 0.9.5 - Unified custom items list and parser [1.2.5-R1.0]

The next update will include a default item.txt which will be automatically written to disk if you don't already have one.

With this you mean you have been making your own or will you use the one I posted?
Anyway, I wish you good luck with this plugin.

Yours, since you posted it

If that's the case, I will keep it up-to-date by editing that post (the reason for the awesome professional changelog xD).
EDIT: you might want to update your main post with a link to my item.txt instead of the old one (no offense / anything else).

Major update in progress. I'll try very hard to avoid any vaporware

• several different "suggesters" - a couple of them are specifically designed for foreign languages
• configuration will allow grouping items
  • allows other plugins to reference specific sets of items for querying - just pull an OddItem group instead of requiring a separate list of items in other plugin configurations
• configuration will be in YAML
  • don't worry, it's still simple and shouldn't confuse anybody
    • the list posted earlier by MasterMeNL is included in the jar, and will automatically be written on first load, so you don't even have to worry about writing YAML unless you want to change things

How will the YAML config look?
Something like this?

Code:

OddItem:
    Group1:
        1:rock|stone
        46:tnt|boom
    Group2:
        etc...

Anyway, I would be happy to still keep the item list up to date and keep adding alternate names when needed (Will upload an update for more half-step/slab names soon).

EDIT: It's up and a lot more has been added here.

Greetings,
MasterMe.

A basic config will look like http://bukkit.somethingodd.info/OddItem.yml.html
Groups will be something like (I'm not sure if the numbers need to be quoted when they're leaves rather than branches)

Code:

groups:
  admin: [7,10,11]
  circuits: [24,41,42]

I will start updating this today and will probably finish it too.
Also, since I keep updating the current item.txt (updated it yesterday) I could send you a PM every time I update it so you could update your site's item file as well.

Greetings,
MasterMe.

Since you are updating the txt, etc.

How about adding slimeball|sball for the slimeorb, cause thats how it is called ingame

Or even just slime.

Well, the point of this plugin is that you can add any alias you'd like. They provide you with a default config, but it's yours to modify! Maybe not everybody wants to call it slime or slimeorb, maybe some will call it snot!

Did you look here?
I will update this and will update post in around 10 minutes.
EDIT: Updated! (On a side note, I didn't add snot, since I don't call a sponge spongebob either xP)

Greetings,
MasterMe.

I'm just saying that no matter how great your default config is, it won't suit everybody, and the point of the plugin is to be able to customise it. But thanks for your work anyway, along with petteyg359!

Will this change the name of an item when you hover over it, or just when you search it?

This is not a client mod; it cannot change the name shown by the client. I may attempt a client mod after I get this new version finished.

EDIT: BukkitContrib appears to allow support for this. Will look into it for the next version.

Item.txt file updated to V1.04.
Also, any news when the new .yml format will come and what will be the definite format, so I can start updating it already.

Greetings,
MasterMe.

Getting there. Going to have a new plugin that will make use of the groups as an example, just like OddGive was an example of how to use OddItem at first The new plugin will also be much more useful than "just an example", just like OddGive

Intresting...

@petteyg359 & @Nitnelave : just to say that AdminCmd is using OddItem in the last Dev version

Nice ^^

@Acrobot @Dark_Balor @narrowtux @Nitnelave (and anybody else using this)

If y'all would like to test your plugins with it (and see if any of the new API is useful to you) before I update the first post, here you go

http://javadoc.somethingodd.info/OddItem/info/somethingodd/bukkit/OddItem/OddItem.html
http://repo.somethingodd.info/info/somethingodd/bukkit/OddItem/0.7/OddItem-0.7.jar

@petteyg359
It seems like a nice API, but I am just back from my holidays and I have to rest a bit

If I understand the idea behind the group add. It's some kind of "kit" ?
Allowing user to definite some group with all the wanted item in it, and allow us dev to get that group ?
I'll have to make some change to make the group thing works but nothing that I can't do ^^

User could add to OddItem.yml like this:

Code:

groups:
 pluginA: [redwool,yellowwool,greenwool]
 pluginB: [ironblock,goldblock,sandstone]
 pluginC: [feather,bone,compass]

Then, pluginA could ask OddItem whether a group is defined for pluginA, and if so, grab those items instead of having its own list in a separate file (consolidation; if you have 10 plugins that have configurable items for usage, then it is easier to edit one file rather than ten files).

@petteyg359
Okay it's what I thought and it's really useful
I'll update my plugin to make it works with the new API.

@petteyg359
Hey, I have looked at it - it looks very nice, however it would be hard for me to implement this at the moment

No need to, really, unless you want to make use of the groups. The getItemStack signature is the same.

Currently updating the item list to support OddItem 0.7 (I just saw it).

hmm it did create the odditem.yml in the main plugin folder where all the .jars are. Shouldn't it be inside the folder odd?

Nope. I moved it. Everybody needed a new file anyway, so I wanted to make it as obvious as possible where the new file was, so anybody will look in their plugins folder and immediately see the relevant file. Will be doing the same thing to OddGive in the next version.