Databind

Expand the functionality of Minecraft Datapacks.

Getting Started

To get started, see the Getting Started page on the docs.

Features

• Multiple function definitions in a single file
• Tagging functions in-code
• Shorthand to call functions without namespace prefix (func_1 instead of namespace:func_1)
• Subcommand to create new projects easily
• Define text replacements for long and repeated lines of code
• While loops
• Variable definitions via scoreboards
• Shorthand for objective creation
• Shorthand for testing variables in if commands
• Configuration options

Building and Running

This project requires cargo.

To build the project, clone the repo and run cargo build in the root directory. To build for release, run cargo build --release.

To run Databind after building it with cargo build, use cargo run.

Installation

From crates.io

To download Databind from crates.io, run cargo install databind. If Rust is in your PATH, then running databind from a command line will work.

Locally

To install Databind from a cloned repository, run cargo install --path . in the root directory.

Documentation

Documentation is build using reStructuredText and Sphinx. Requires Python. Built documentation is hosted on Read The Docs.

Building Docs

To build the documentation, go to the /docs folder and run pip install -r requirements.txt. Then run make.bat html or make html, depending on platform.

Viewing Docs

To view the documentation, open the index.html file generated in /docs/_build/html.

License

Databind is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.0 (LICENSE or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html).