Interface Entity

All Superinterfaces:

Faceted, Locatable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Player

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPlayerActor, AsyncPlayer, BlockArrayClipboard.ClipboardEntity, HistoryExtent.TrackedEntity, IChunkExtent.IChunkEntity, LocationMaskedPlayerWrapper, PlayerProxy, SilentPlayerWrapper

public interface Entity
extends Faceted, Locatable

A reference to an instance of an entity that exists in an Extent and thus would have position and similar details.

This object cannot be directly cloned because it represents a particular instance of an entity, but a BaseEntity can be created from this entity by calling getState().

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
BaseEntity	getState()	Get a copy of the entity's state.
default EntityType	getType()
boolean	remove()	Remove this entity from it container.

Methods inherited from interface Faceted

getFacet

Methods inherited from interface Locatable

getBlockLocation, getExtent, getLocation, setLocation, setPosition, trySetPosition

Method Details

getState

@Nullable
BaseEntity getState()

Get a copy of the entity's state.

In some cases, this method may return null if a snapshot of the entity can't be created. It may not be possible, for example, to get a snapshot of a player.

Returns:

the entity's state or null if one cannot be created

getType

default EntityType getType()

remove

boolean remove()

Remove this entity from it container.

Returns:

true if removal was successful