Good afternoon everyone Currently, we need a proper way to check if an entity type exists. Example A series of conditions will check if the mob.getType() == EntityType.SOMETHING then execute the code. That works, the problem is that we need to prevent that the code will throw an error when the mob is for example a Bee (which would cause an error for server versions lower then 1.15) Any help is always much appreciated. Best regards, Mr Q
You can always use Enum#valueOf(String). It doesn't look the cleanest but it works. Code (Java): // Keeping a cached value private static final EntityType type; static { EntityType et = null; try { et = EntityType.valueOf("SOMETHING"); } catch (IllegalArgumentException exception) { // The type does not exist in this version } type = et; } // Checking entitytype Entity entity = ...; // Entity#getType() cannot return null values so no need to check if the type is null if (entity.getType() == type) { // Code }
But if for any reason the name would change, that would break it again. On the other hand , that looks like the cleanest solution.
