Solved Using classes in skript-mirror

[jaylawl]

skript-mirror is so amazing, it's a crime that there isn't more documentation on it!
But that's how it is and i can live with brute forcing my way through it until things work - however unfortunately i got stuck on this bit.

I'm try to make a script that can add itemflags. loading this script will produce no errors, but the part that adds the item flag does not work and i can't figure out why.

import:
    org.bukkit.inventory.ItemFlag as ItemFlag

command /test:
    trigger:
        set {_item} to diamond hoe named "adsasdas"
        {_item}.setItemMeta().addItemFlags(ItemFlag.HIDE_ATTRIBUTES!)
        send "%{_item}.getItemMeta().getItemFlags()%"

anybody push me in the right direction?
thank you

Solution:
The meta (for to me unknown reasons) had to be set to a variable first and then be applied to the item

import:
    org.bukkit.inventory.ItemFlag

command /test:
    trigger:
        set {_item} to diamond hoe named "adsasdas"
        set {_meta} to {_item}.getItemMeta()
        {_meta}.addItemFlags(ItemFlag.HIDE_ATTRIBUTES!, ItemFlag.HIDE_ENCHANTS!)
        {_item}.setItemMeta({_meta})
        send "%{_item}% flags: %{_item}.getItemMeta().getItemFlags()%"
        add 1 of {_item} to command sender's inventory

 

[Snow-Pyon]

The reason why you had to do it that way is just that the ItemType#getItemMeta method returns a clone of the actual meta (meaning it isn't mutable, directly at least).

And there is a semi-complete documentation that might be useful to you:
https://skript-mirror.gitbook.io/docs/

 

[jaylawl]

That is useful information. Thank you for explaining this despite the thread being marked as solved.
I'm aware of the skript-mirror gitbook, but unfortunately it's not much help to me in the way that's written. Although i do keep going back to it and understand a bit more each time.