2024-09-12 16:30:07 +08:00

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Quirks in TeaVM

When TeaVM compiles code, it sometimes does strange things.

Property Suffixes

TeaVM will add suffixes to some variables, seemingly randomly. An example is the property inGround of any entity. When accessing this on the ModAPI.player.fishEntity object, TeaVM has renamed it to inGround2.

Collapsing Methods

When I was trying to hook into the server-side processing of chat messages, I found that chat packets were handled by the method processChatMessage in NetHandlerPlayServer. However, in the compiled JavaScript, this method no longer exists. This is because it is only used once, in the processPacket method of C01PacketChatMessage. TeaVM automatically saw this, and collapsed one method into the other.

Dedicated Server Not Responding / Client Not Responding

Incorrectly patching methods with ModAPI.hooks (such as returning false instead of 0, or a javascript string without using ModAPI.str()) will effectively cause the memory stack to implode, along with all crash handlers. I came across this when I was using the processcommand event with preventDefault set to true. I didn't return any value when patching methods for the event being preventDefaulted, when the output expected was a java boolean (0/1). This would cause the dedicated server to freeze/lock up, without triggering any form of crash.