ItemStack question!

Hey there, One very short question: These is the Bukkit ItemStack (org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack) we use normaly and then there is the NMS ItemStack(net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.ItemStack) . But what is this used for? One thing I noticed is, that I can only cache a skull with texture in an NMS ItemStack but NOT in an bukkit ItemStack. Why?

Thanks!

 

Thanks. But why cant the api stack store an texture/keep an texture loaded but the other one can? And do you have another example for me where I would youe the NMS one? Sorry for all those questions but I really want to unserstand, not only copy n paste :3

 

@ThrustLP
I don't know how much you know about the bukkit api, but here's a quick rundown. The Bukkit API is built on top of the regular minecraft server code. The Bukkit API code is nice and clean and rarley ever changes, so you are sure it can always be used. The NMS code however, is mojangs code, which is very likely to change between updates, so you should avoid using it.

The reason the NMS one has more functionality is simply because that's what the game uses. If you want bukkit to have a similar method, submit a feature request to Spigot.

 

Thanks you two! So the Bukkit-Coders took some of the ItemStack NMS-Functions and put it in their "clean" api, and some they left out/didn't recognise etc?

 

@ThrustLP
You can think of it that way, yes.