nbt

NBT

This package implement the Named Binary Tag format of Minecraft. It supports all formats of NBT including compact arrays for longs.

Usage

For the following NBT tag:

TAG_Compound("hello world") {
    TAG_String('name'): 'Bananrama'
}   

To read and write would look like:

package main

import "bytes"
import "github.com/ForgottenWorld/go-mc/nbt"

type Compound struct {
    Name string `nbt:"name"` // Note that if name is private (name), the field will not be used
}

func main() {
    var out bytes.Buffer
    banana := Compound{Name: "Bananrama"}
    _ = nbt.Marshal(&out, banana)

    var rama Compound
    _ = nbt.Unmarshal(out.Bytes(), &rama)
}

Struct field tags

There are two tags supported:

• nbt
• nbt_type

The nbt tag is used to change the name of the NBT Tag field, whereas the nbt_type tag is used to enforce a certain NBT Tag type when it is ambiguous.

For example:

type Compound struct {
    LongArray []int64
    LongList []int64 `nbt_type:"list"` // forces a long list instead of a long array
}

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