Shipyard5j

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With my Trader engine at a stable point, and my FlashBuilder-based T5 Shipyard showing distinct signs of end-of-life, I'm starting another project for a Shipyard, T5 edition, in Java.

https://github.com/bobbyjim/Shipyard5j

I decided to start simple, and build in small increments. The initial check-in is trivial indeed: its entire function is to simply parse a JSON ship design from the T5Shipyard, then re-stringify and print to stdout.

Being able to read in the output of the previous shipyard is critical for me to be able to work with existing designs. I do not want to have to re-do them!

 

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I've also started fleshing out the data objects representing a ship. Designs don't have to have all of the details I'm adding, but some of them have it, so I want to support it.

This is very much a MOARN thing. If I'm simply designing a free trader, a lot of elements will be missing or default.

The next step is to populate these data structures from an existing shipyard design file.

 

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Implemented reading the header into a Ship object, via a Builder.

Next up, smoothing the edges of the read, and reading in the component list.

 

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OK, component list is mostly read in. I created enums for Stage, Range, and Mount, so I will need custom code to map those.