API: Unable to use the API alongside Adventure 4.17.0

[fabianmakila]

Problem

The API seems to include an older version of adventure that is shaded into the API itself. This breaks any adventure code that is written for a newer version of adventure.

This means that the API can't be used for example with modern Paper versions which include a more modern version of adventure.

I tried doing this which would work if the dependency was transitive:

compileOnly("net.william278.husktowns:husktowns-bukkit:3.0.6") {
        exclude("net.kyori")
    }

But since the adventure is shaded onto the API itself, doing the above does nothing. So basically there is no easy way to exclude the adventure classes imported by HuskTown's API without doing some crazy hacks that might or might not work.

Suggested fix

Preferably adventure wouldn't be shaded onto the API itself, but instead be imported as a transitive dependency. This way the API could be used alongside multiple versions of adventure — not just the one version the API uses at given moment.

[WiIIiam278]

So there's a few issues at play here:

• I need to support Spigot. Accordingly, adventure-platform-bukkit needs shading.
• ...and adventure-platform-bukkit transitively includes the adventure API classes.
• I need to support everything in one fat jar, without separate Paper and Bukkit jars.
• ...and so I can't relocate adventure-platform bukkit, as I need to support Paper's native adventure on that platform, and doing so changes the classnames.

I'm not sure how to achieve all three of these. I think it might be impossible? Suggestions welcome. I'll do a deeper dive when I have some more time :)

EDIT: Oh, your issue specifically relates to the API. In which case one needs to make adventure-platform-bukkit transitive.