addonscript-spec/docs/concepts/install.md

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File installing

Install commands

move

args:

  • [location]

move is simplest install step of all. It just moves the selected file to the given location.

extract

args:

  • [location]

extract can be used with zip files, to extract the contents of the zip file to the given location.

rename

args:

  • [new name]

rename renames the selected file to the new given filename.

execute

args:

  • [location]
  • [jar arguments]

execute can be used with an executable jar file. The jar file will be executed with the given arguments and the given location as working directory. A client should inform the user before just executing the file and ask them for permission to do so and/or it should execute the jar in a closed environment like a container to prevent malicous code from running.

launch

launch can be used to mark the selected file as the launch file for a specific side. Files having this install step can only have the client or the server flag, not both. If the file is client-sided, it has to be a client JSON file as specified by Minecraft itself. If it is server-sided, it has to be a jar file, which is the file, that should be launched to start the server. The jar file has to be moved to the root of the instance directory, before using launch on it. Moreover, this install step may only be used with launchable or instance addons and there may be only one file for each side, which has this install step, except all of them are marked as optional, in which case they are also implicitly marked as incompatible to each other.

select

args:

  • [filename]

select is used to select the file with the given file name for other installation steps. The file name can also be a relative path, if the file is not directly in the Minecraft directory. If no file name is given, the selection resets to the original file itself, also if it was already moved to another location.

Locations

Locations are specified as a relative path from the Minecraft directory to which the file should be installed. For example ./mods would point to the mods directory of the Minecraft instance.

Directories

If the selected file is a directory, then it is treated like a zip file, which means, that you can move and rename it like a normal file, but also use the extract install step to move all contents of the directory to the specified location.