Get ATs from mod dependencies

[me4502]

Hi,

Just throwing this suggestion out there. Say you are making an addon for a mod, but want to have access to all the AT-modified fields. You'd need to basically put a copy of that AT in your mod. I'm suggesting a way to specify mods to inherit AT from.

[diesieben07]

This is not technically possible, since at the time where ATs are applied (before classes are loaded, ATs are ASM!) there is no inheritance information.
Instead of using ATs just use reflection.

[me4502]

That's not the type of inheritance I am talking about. I am talking about mod-add ons inheriting the AT from the mods they enhance.

[diesieben07]

Damn, actually reading would help... Sorry.
ATs are a global thing. They are not applied on the mod, they actually modify the targeted class. So, if one mod has an AT, that field/method is modified for everyone.

[AbrarSyed]

You have to extract the AT of the dependency mods, and put them in src/api/java. Then rerun the setup.

It is planned to have this pulled from dependencies automatically in FG2, have to double check if I added that or not yet.

[me4502]

Yeah, it's the automatic pulling of ATs that I was suggesting

[AbrarSyed]

Currently available in in the 2.0 snapshot.
minecraft { useDepAts = true }
This will only get ATs defined in the manifest of the dependency and can be found in the META-INF folder of the dependency jar, as is done by FML.