Learning reflection

Is there an easier way to do reflection?

Code:java

public static Class<?> getBukkitClass(String name) {
        String version = Bukkit.getServer().getClass().getPackage().getName().split("\\.")[3];
        try {
            return Class.forName("org.bukkit.craftbukkit." + version + "." + name);
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            StackTraceCore.getStackTraceCore().printTrace(e);
            return null;
        }
    }
 
 
    public static Object getName(ItemStack itemStack)
    {
        Object craftItemStack = null;
        Class<?> bukkitClass = getBukkitClass("inventory.CraftItemStack");
        try {
            craftItemStack = bukkitClass.getMethod("asNMSCopy", ItemStack.class).invoke(bukkitClass, itemStack);
            Class<?> craftitemStackClass = craftItemStack.getClass();
            return craftitemStackClass.getDeclaredMethod("getName").invoke(craftItemStack);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            StackTraceCore.getStackTraceCore().printTrace(e);
        }
        return "";
    }

 

@JanTuck
Apart from the fact that you could create a few more util methods to remove the exception catching completely, not really.

 

@AlvinB Okay.


I actually looked at this and thought... If minecraft can get a friendly name why not just ask minecraft for it?


https://bukkit.org/threads/itemnames-get-the-friendly-printable-name-for-an-itemstack.284199/

 

@JanTuck
Well, there are a couple possibilities:

• This method might not have existed when that thread was made.
• This method is NMS, so it might change in different versions leading to a lot of hassle
• If the ItemStack has a custom name, it'll return that instead.