NBTProxy

An NBT API designed for Spigot plugins to interact with NBT tags.

A full tutorial on how to use the fancy serialization is on the wiki which you can visit by clicking [here] https://github.com/MrBlobman/NBTProxy/wiki) and the javadocs are over here

Using it in your project

There are 2 options:

1. Publish the project to your local maven repository and add it to your build script/pom.

   ./gradlew publishApiPublicationToMavenLocal
   

   Then add a gradle or maven dependency with the following: Gradle:

   compile group: 'io.github.mrblobman', name: 'NBTProxy-api', version: '2.1.1'

   Maven:

   <dependency>
       <groupId>io.github.mrblobman</groupId>
       <artifactId>NBTProxy-api</artifactId>
       <version>2.1.1</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
   </dependency>

2. Add the api jar to your classpath. The jars can be downloaded from the releases tab. Link to releases

Checking if the server is running a supported version

Make sure you add "NBTProxy" as a dependency in your plugin.yml.

TagFactory is one of the core utility classes and the get() method will retrieve the appropriate instance for the nms version running on the server. The error message is fairly descriptive and printing it and then disabling the plugin should be sufficient for informing the server administrator.

try {
    TagFactory factory = TagFactory.get();
} catch (UnsupportedOperationException e) {
    //Code to run if there is not a compatible version running on the server
}