How to change Sponge version for Eclipse testing?

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I’m using the GitHub client and a fork of SpongeForge. When I download it on the client it’s automatically the latest branch. How do I test in API 5.1?

2

I’d personally suggest just running a legit sponge jar file and building your plugins into the server run folder, but I’m almost certain there are some branches / tags you can checkout to.

3

For how much I test, that would waste a lot of time. I would have to export and do all the settings for that, then find the folder the server runs in my windows then launch it.
I like being able to just push a green play button :wink:

4
  • Go to the downloads page
  • choose the build you want to have
  • note down the latest commit(vanilla -> it says what commit it is directly on the download page, forge -> download the jar and look for text files, don’t know which one says which commit it is)
  • checkout the repo at this commit.

Edit: SpongeForge/SpongeVanilla repo HEAD to specific build

5

I tried that earlier, but when setting it up I get an error.

[code]FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • Where:
    Build file ‘D:\Minecraft Plugins\Sponge Plugins\SpongeForge5\build.gradle’ line: 31

  • What went wrong:
    A problem occurred evaluating root project ‘SpongeForge’.

Could not read script ‘D:\Minecraft Plugins\Sponge Plugins\SpongeForge5\SpongeCommon\gradle\implementation.gradle’ as it does not exist.

  • Try:
    Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 33.163 secs[/code]

6

well, you can if you set up a run configuration that just starts the server for you. it’s not very hard to do.

7

You get this error if the Git submodules are not properly initialized. We have separate Git repositories for SpongeForge, SpongeCommon and SpongeAPI. They need to be initialized with a special command before you can import the project into your IDE.

I haven’t used the GitHub client so I don’t know if it has any option in the GUI, however it should have an option to open a new Git Shell for the repository. Once you have done that you need to type git submodule --init --recursive to finish the initialization. After that, you should be able to setup your workspace normally.

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