How does the plugin annotation meta get serialized into an mcmod.info file?

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I was looking more into the inner workings of sponge plugin development, specifically, how is it that the information in the @Plugin annotation of the main class get seralized into the mcmod.info that can be found in the root directory of the jarfile?

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Annotation processing is turned on by default in IDEs, and SpongeAPI has the PluginProcessor which implements Processor, and is registered in META-INF as an annotation processor. The actual serialization of the annotation into JSON is done through the plugin-meta dependency.

If you’re looking for the source, it’s under SpongeAPI in src/ap/java/org/spongepowered/plugin. plugin-meta is found here.

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