Item Template feature

[Andre601]

What is it about?

An Item Template would be an item entry as you usually find in the GUI files themself.
They would support everything you can use in a GUI file's items section, but it's defined in its own file (i.e. templates.yml

Example:

items:
  back_to_menu:
    material: book
    slot: 36
    display_name: "Go back to main menu"
    click_commands:
      - "[openguimenu] main_menu"

This would create the template item back_to_menu which could then be referenced in GUI files using a new template option:

items:
  back_to_menu:
    template: back_to_menu

Options could be added to override existing ones in the template, or be added to it, if possible.

Is this related to an issue?

Yes.
Right now does it become extremely tedious to make GUIs using the same Item in them. You have to copy-paste it everywhere and whenever you change something, you have to update it X times.

With this solution, you only would need one Item instance to update and all the other ones using it would be updated accordingly.

[BlitzOffline]

Hi. Something that might help you is YAML Anchors: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/yaml-anchors/

definitions:
  items:
    dirt_test: &dirt_test
      material: dirt
      slot: 0
      display_name: "&aMY DIRT!"


menu_title: '&fDIRT'
open_command: dirt
size: 9
items:
  dirt1: *dirt_test   # THIS ITEM WILL HAVE THE SAME PROPERTIES AS THE ONE DEFINED ABOVE
  dirt2:              # THIS ITEM WILL OVERRIDE THE SLOT AND DISPLAY NAME
    <<: *dirt_test
    slot: 1
    display_name: "&cMY OTHER DIRT!"

Note: this does not work across files.

[Andre601]

Note: this does not work across files.

And that's the main point for my suggestion. A solution that works cross-files.