In dev environment, treat groovy/kotlin/gradle template placeholders as wildcards

[dexman545]

So things like "version":"${version}" don't error.

This is particularly useful when variables are used for dependencies, as IDE run configs cannot run processResources to fill in the blanks.

[i509VCB]

I would like to ask, should we lock this behind a system property in DLI that loom automatically enables? Since this does step into platform specific territory. Ask Player and modmuss about that before you do this of course.

Also the templates in file also work with kotlin dsl - so this is a general gradle thing.

However doing the system property would require loom updates - so it probably wont work.

[dexman545]

I'll wait for player/modmuss before doing a system property, but I don't think it's particularly needed as the place holders exist in the general mod.json only in dev environments, and would be useful for more than just MC.

[liach]

Imo the right way is to make ide process resources so the placeholders are substituted with actual versions. similarly for gradle, we should make runXxx happen only after processResources which substitutes such vars

[dexman545]

Imo the right way is to make ide process resources so the placeholders are substituted with actual versions. similarly for gradle, we should make runXxx happen only after processResources which substitutes such vars

This only works for gradle tasks, not the generated run configs.

[liach]

Read the first sentence:

Imo the right way is to make ide process resources so the placeholders are substituted with actual versions

There is definitely a way for ide to process resources before running their run tasks. We just need to figure out how to do that; in the end if there is no elegant way in ide we can just make ide run processResources gradle task and make ide use gradle processed resources.

[i509VCB]

If you run with intellij the placeholders do not get set. Probably the same if you do what Player does with eclipse for starting the game.

[liach]

If you run with intellij the placeholders do not get set.

So yes, we can add resource processing to idea's pre-run tasks. This is a thing.

[Juuxel]

The regex doesn't match things like $version, which also work with Gradle.

[modmuss50]

Im not a fan of this at all.

One suggestion/idea we have had for a while is to read the version from the json into gradle.

[dexman545]

Bad hardcoded task for Idea to be run after build but before launch:

task fixResourcesLaunch(type: Copy) {
	String name = project.name.replace(" ", "_") + ".main"

	destinationDir file("${projectDir}/out/production/${name}")
	from processResources
}

Closing since this doesn't seem wanted.