GradleRobot

This repo is a template for creating robots for RoboCode using Gradle.
This makes it easy to use any IDE to code Robots.

You get all the benefits from using an IDE and can easily export a jar file that RoboCode can import.

This repo comes with an example robot implementation class so you can get started immediately.

How to Use

Setup

• Clone this repository
• Change Robot/Project Name

Change and Export

• Change the robot code (Open this repo as a Gradle project in your IDE)
• Export your Robot as a jar file and import it in RoboCode

Change Robot/Project Name

Because you want your robot to be special and non-generic you want to change the name of your Robot.

For this a simple java program is contained in this repo which renames your project, namespaces and classes.

Before running the command it is recommended to close your IDE completely (unloading the project from you IDE might be enough).
The program can be run via the commandline with the following command (cd into the repo folder first):

java -jar RenameProject.jar <YOUR_NEW_PACKAGE_NAME>.<YOUR_NEW_PROJECT_NAME>

Replace <YOUR_NEW_PACKAGE_NAME> in the command above with a package name for your robot class. If you do not know what that means then just use the same as for <YOUR_NEW_PROJECT_NAME>.
Replace <YOUR_NEW_PROJECT_NAME> in the command above with your new project name.
Keep the . between these two placeholders.

Export a Jar File for RoboCode

To generate/export a jar file that can be imported into RoboCode use the shadowJar Gradle task.
This task can be run via the commandline with the following command (cd into the repo folder first):

./gradle shadowJar

The exported jar file can be found in build/libs/.