Event Implementation Generator

Generates the event implementations and factory for SpongeAPI based on event templates formatted as Java interfaces using an annotation processor. This tool should be compatible with all standard-compliant Java 8+ compilers.

Usage

You can use event-impl-gen in your plugins to generate event implementations based on event interfaces. event-impl-gen is primarily tested on Gradle 7.2+, but should work on any Java build tool.

Gradle

To use it in your plugin, you need to apply it to your Gradle build script:

CAUTION: Due to a bug in Gradle annotation processing, Gradle 7.2 or newer is required to take advantage of incremental compilation.

dependencies {
    annotationProcessor("org.spongepowered:event-impl-gen:8.0.0-SNAPSHOT")
    compileOnlyApi("org.spongepowered:event-impl-gen-annotations:8.0.0-SNAPSHOT")
}

compileJava {
    options.compilerArgs << ["-AeventGenFactory=com.example.myplugin.event.factory.MyPluginEventFactory"]
    
    // Then annotate all packages or interfaces containing events with @GenerateFactoryMethod
}

IDE Integration

IntelliJ: Projects built in IntelliJ will need to be compiled once for annotation processor-generated interfaces to show up.

Eclipse: Because Eclipse compiles continuously, event implementations are generated immediately. When using Gradle, a bit of plumbing is required to ensure annotation processors are automatically detected. See the

Options

Beyond the one required eventGenFactory option to declare the location of the generated event factory, there are several other options to control the output:

Option	Description	Format	Required	Default Value
eventGenFactory	The package to put the generated factory in	qualified binary name	yes	none
sortPriorityPrefix	prefix for methods that should be placed first when sotring	string	no	original
groupingPrefixes	appears to modify sorting to group certain prefixes together	<a>:<b>[,<a>:<b>]*	no	from:to
inclusiveAnnotations	customize the annotations that include an event type in processing	binary name of an annotation	no	o.s.a.u.a.e.GenerateFactoryMethod
exclusiveAnnotations	customize the annotations that exclude an event type from processing	binary name of an annotation	no	o.s.a.u.a.e.GenerateFactoryMethod
eventGenDebug	print extra debug output	boolean	no	false