Solved Serializing a nbt tag.

I have a system to loop thru blocks in an area and create a new LyghtBlock object which stores a type id the data and nbt(Well suposed to).
I need a way to serialize this nbt tag. . . I've seen NBTCompressedStreamTools but, don't know how I'd use it to serialze a nbt tag for each block.

 

@Lightspeed

Why do you need to serialise this data?

 

For a schematic like system.

 

@Lightspeed

You could use the actual schematics. They work pretty well.

 

@mythbusterma I would like to use my own code.

EDIT: Do I have to use a lib?

 

@Lightspeed

It's just that writing your own code for schematics is incredibly difficult. I would recommend using someone else's code to do it.

You don't have to, but I certainly would.

 

@mythbusterma I already got the code for schematics I just need to be able to serialize nbt data.

 

Welp I found this one out too so here you go.

Code:

//Converting it to a byte array
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
NBTCompressedStreamTools.a(ntc, baos);
baos.toByteArray(); //This is what you want!

//Convert back to nbt!
ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(ByteArrayHere);
NBTTagCompound nbt= NBTCompressedStreamTools.a(bais);

Just save the converted byte array into a file change location if needed and use it(My system copies entities from one location to another so thats why you might need to change locations a bit)!