Solved Item Metadata Deserialization

You can serialize Item Metadata to a Map<String, Object>, however I can not find a way to deseralize Item Metadata from Map<String, Object> while using only the Bukkit API.

Anything I'm missing?

This seems to work, although it is a bit more hackish than I'd like.

Code:

public static ItemMeta deserializeItemMeta(Class<? extends ItemMeta> itemMetaClass, Map<String, Object> args) {
DelegateDeserialization delegate = itemMetaClass.getAnnotation(DelegateDeserialization.class);
return (ItemMeta) ConfigurationSerialization.deserializeObject(args, delegate.value());
}

You need to pass in the class of an existing ItemStack's metadata, but everything else is straightforward, and it does not use any NMS or OBC calls.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

ItemMeta implements ConfigurationSerializable, you should just be able to do

Code:

someConfig.set("path.to.meta", itemmeta)