Package org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.injection

Annotation Interface Inject

@Target(METHOD) @Retention(RUNTIME) public @interface Inject
Specifies that this mixin method should inject a callback (or callbacks) to itself in the target method(s) identified by method().

Callbacks are simple injectors which simply inject a call to the decorated method (the handler) in the target method (or methods) selected by the selectors specified in method(). Callback Injectors can also capture arguments and local variables from the target for use in the handler.

Callback handler methods should always return void and should have the same static-ness as their target (though it is allowable to have a static callback injected into an instance method, and for obvious reasons the inverse is not permitted).

Basic usage

The simplest usage of @Inject captures no context from the target scope. This is particularly useful if the injector is targetting multiple methods with different signatures. In this case only the CallbackInfo (or CallbackInfoReturnable as appropriate) is required.

private void onSomeEvent(CallbackInfo ci)

Capture target arguments

Callbacks can also capture the arguments passed to the target method. To do so specify the target arguments before the CallbackInfo:

private void onSomeEvent(int arg1, String arg2, CallbackInfo ci)

Surrogate methods

If injecting into multiple methods with different target arguments it is obviously possible to ignore the target arguments (see "Basic Usage" above) but this may be unsuitable if arguments from the target are required. If you need to inject into multiple methods but also wish to capture method arguments you may provide a surrogate method with the alternative signature. In fact you may provide as many surrogates as required by the injection. Surrogate methods much have the same name as the handler method and must be decorated with Surrogate. A surrogate may also be required where the LVT of a method with local capture (see below) is known to change between different environments or injection points.

Capture local variables

In addition to capturing the target method arguments, it may be desirable to capture locally-scoped variables from the target method at the point of injection. This is usually executed in two stages:

  1. Set the locals() value of your injection to LocalCapture.PRINT and run the application.
  2. When the injector is processed, a listing of the LVT is produced accompanied by a generated signature for your handler method including the discovered args. Modify your handler signature accordingly.

For more details see locals().

  • Required Element Summary

    Required Elements
    Modifier and Type
    Required Element
    Description
    At[]
    at
    Array of At annotations which describe the InjectionPoints in the target method.

  • Optional Element Summary

    Optional Elements
    Modifier and Type
    Optional Element
    Description
    int
    allow
    Injection points are in general expected to match every candidate instruction in the target method or slice, except in cases where options such as At.ordinal() are specified which naturally limit the number of results.
    boolean
    cancellable
    Setting an injected callback to cancellable allows the injected callback to inject optional RETURN opcodes into the target method, the return behaviour can then be controlled from within the callback by interacting with the supplied CallbackInfo object.
    String
    constraints
    Returns constraints which must be validated for this injector to succeed.
    int
    expect
    Like require() but only enabled if the mixin.debug.countInjections option is set to true and defaults to 1.
    String
    id
    The identifier for this injector, can be retrieved via the CallbackInfo.getId() accessor.
    LocalCapture
    locals
    Specifies the local variable capture behaviour for this injector.
    String[]
    method
    String representation of one or more target selectors which identify the target methods.
    boolean
    remap
    By default, the annotation processor will attempt to locate an obfuscation mapping for all Inject methods since it is anticipated that in general the target of a Inject annotation will be an obfuscated method in the target class.
    int
    require
    In general, injectors are intended to "fail soft" in that a failure to locate the injection point in the target method is not considered an error condition.
    Slice[]
    slice
    Array of Slice annotations which describe the method bisections used in the at() queries for this injector.
    Desc[]
    target
    Literal representation of one or more @Desc annotations which identify the target methods.

  • Element Details

    • at

      At[] at
      Array of At annotations which describe the InjectionPoints in the target method. Allows one or more callbacks to be injected in the target method.
      Returns:
      injection point specifiers for this injector

    • id

      String id
      The identifier for this injector, can be retrieved via the CallbackInfo.getId() accessor. If not specified, the ID defaults to the target method name.
      Returns:
      the injector id to use
      Default:
      ""

    • method

      String[] method
      String representation of one or more target selectors which identify the target methods.
      Returns:
      target method(s) for this injector
      Default:
      {}

    • target

      Desc[] target
      Literal representation of one or more @Desc annotations which identify the target methods.
      Returns:
      target method(s) for this injector as descriptors
      Default:
      {}

    • slice

      Slice[] slice
      Array of Slice annotations which describe the method bisections used in the at() queries for this injector.
      Returns:
      slices
      Default:
      {}

    • cancellable

      boolean cancellable
      Setting an injected callback to cancellable allows the injected callback to inject optional RETURN opcodes into the target method, the return behaviour can then be controlled from within the callback by interacting with the supplied CallbackInfo object.
      Returns:
      true if this injector should inject appropriate RETURN opcodes which allow it to be cancelled
      Default:
      false

    • locals

      LocalCapture locals
      Specifies the local variable capture behaviour for this injector.

      When capturing local variables in scope, the variables are appended to the callback invocation after the CallbackInfo argument.

      Capturing local variables from the target scope requires careful planning because unlike other aspects of an injection (such as the target method name and signature), the local variable table is not safe from modification by other transformers which may be in use in the production environment. Even other injectors which target the same target method have the ability to modify the local variable table and thus it is in no way safe to assume that local variables in scope at development time will be so in production.

      To provide some level of flexibility, especially where changes can be anticipated (for example a well-known mod makes changes which result in a particular structure for the local variable table) it is possible to provide overloads for the handler method which will become surrogate targets for the orphaned injector by annotating them with an Surrogate annotation.

      You can improve the robustness of your local capture injection by only specifying locals up to the last variable you wish to use. For example if the target LVT contains <int, int, int, float, String> and you only need the float value, you can choose to omit the unused String and changes to the LVT beyond that point will not affect your injection.

      It is also important to nominate the failure behaviour to follow when local capture fails and so all LocalCapture behaviours which specify a capture action imply a particular behaviour for handling failure. See the javadoc on the LocalCapture members for more details.

      Determining what local variables are available to you and in what order can be somewhat tricky, and so a simple mechanism for enumerating available locals is provided. By setting locals to LocalCapture.PRINT, the injector writes the local capture state to STDERR instead of injecting the callback. Using the output thus obtained it is then a straightforward matter of altering the callback method signature to match the signature proposed by the Callback Injector.

      Returns:
      the desired local capture behaviour for this injector
      Default:
      NO_CAPTURE

    • remap

      boolean remap
      By default, the annotation processor will attempt to locate an obfuscation mapping for all Inject methods since it is anticipated that in general the target of a Inject annotation will be an obfuscated method in the target class. However since it is possible to also apply mixins to non-obfuscated targets (or non- obfuscated methods in obfuscated targets, such as methods added by Forge) it may be necessary to suppress the compiler error which would otherwise be generated. Setting this value to false will cause the annotation processor to skip this annotation when attempting to build the obfuscation table for the mixin.
      Returns:
      True to instruct the annotation processor to search for obfuscation mappings for this annotation
      Default:
      true

    • require

      int require
      In general, injectors are intended to "fail soft" in that a failure to locate the injection point in the target method is not considered an error condition. Another transformer may have changed the method structure or any number of reasons may cause an injection to fail. This also makes it possible to define several injections to achieve the same task given expected mutation of the target class and the injectors which fail are simply ignored.

      However, this behaviour is not always desirable. For example, if your application depends on a particular injection succeeding you may wish to detect the injection failure as an error condition. This argument is thus provided to allow you to stipulate a minimum number of successful injections for this callback handler. If the number of injections specified is not achieved then an InjectionError is thrown at application time. Use this option with care.

      Returns:
      Minimum required number of injected callbacks, default specified by the containing config
      Default:
      -1

    • expect

      int expect
      Like require() but only enabled if the mixin.debug.countInjections option is set to true and defaults to 1. Use this option during debugging to perform simple checking of your injectors. Causes the injector to throw a InvalidInjectionException if the expected number of injections is not realised.
      Returns:
      Minimum number of expected callbacks, default 1
      Default:
      1

    • allow

      int allow
      Injection points are in general expected to match every candidate instruction in the target method or slice, except in cases where options such as At.ordinal() are specified which naturally limit the number of results.

      This option allows for sanity-checking to be performed on the results of an injection point by specifying a maximum allowed number of matches, similar to that afforded by Group.max(). For example if your injection is expected to match 4 invocations of a target method, but instead matches 5, this can become a detectable tamper condition by setting this value to 4.

      Setting any value 1 or greater is allowed. Values less than 1 or less than require() are ignored. require() supercedes this argument such that if allow is less than require the value of require is always used.

      Note that this option is not a limit on the query behaviour of this injection point. It is only a sanity check used to ensure that the number of matches is not too high

      Returns:
      Maximum allowed number of injections for this
      Default:
      -1

    • constraints

      String constraints
      Returns constraints which must be validated for this injector to succeed. See ConstraintParser.Constraint for details of constraint formats.
      Returns:
      Constraints for this annotation
      Default:
      ""