If a block is air we return immediately so miss the cleanup work that would
normally happen in this case in vanilla. This causes us to get in to a
situation where, due to odd packet sending from the client, we never
properly stop an attempt by the client to break a block and thus it
eventually breaks.
We also use our own variable for block damage and never sync it up with the
vanilla one so damage reporting to other clients is not always correct.
The static assertions are not normally evaluated in the JVM, and failed
to fail when the enums went from size 25 to size 26. This meant missing
values would not be detected at runtime and instead return null,
compounding problems later. The switches should never evaluate to null
so will instead throw runtime assertion errors.
Additional unit tests were added to detect new paintings and assure they
have proper, unique mappings. The test checks both that a mapping
exists, is not null, and does not duplicate another mapping.
If a defensive copy is not used in the API, changes to the item are
reflected in memory, but never updated to the client. It also goes
against the general contract provided in Bukkit, where setItem should be
the only way to change the underlying item frame.
Skull blocks store their type in a tile entity and use their block data
as rotation. When breaking a block the block data is used for determining
what item to drop. Simply changing this to use the skull method for getting
their drop data is not enough because their tile entity is already gone.
Therefore we have to special case skulls to get the correct data _and_ get
that data before breaking the block.
On player death player PotionEffects need to be updated so that a player's
invisibility and other effects are removed, otherwise they will persist
after a respawn. This is a carry-over from our use of persistent player
entities.
Some features added in 1.4.2 use the difficulty value as an index to an
array so while before having it set to an invalid value would do nothing
or maybe cause an odd side effect somewhere it now crashes the server. This
patch ensures difficulty values are clamped between 0 and 3, inclusive.
Filtering item data is usually a good idea to make sure we don't have
invalid data or data on items that shouldn't have it. However, anvils
use item data in slightly different way and so running its code for
filtering here causes the data to be corrupted.
A couple method names were changed between 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 but were missed
in the update. One of these affects being able to enchant bows and the
other is used for updating player animations while firing.
Vanilla has its own handlers for plugin channel messages for things like
texture packs, books, and anvils. When vanilla handles one of these messages
we should not also pass it to plugins because they will be duplicating work
and potentially running in to situations our plugin system isn't setup to
handle. This is how 1.3.2 worked but was lost in the 1.4.2 update.
