robots-wrapper

Robocode Robots Wrapper

About the wrapper

The Robots Wrapper is used to wrapping existing Robocode robot jar files making it possible to run those inside Robocode Tank Royale.

The wrapper works by creating a Tank Royale specific bot directory beside the robot jar file containing:

• A JSON configuration file with robot information extracted from the robot jar file.
• Script files for starting the robot for Tank Royale.
• A Wrapper.java with a main entry for running the robot as an executable that makes use of the Robocode API adapter library.

Usage

The robots wrapper takes a single argument which is a file path of a directory containing one or more robot jar files identical to the robots folder inside the robocode home directory.

Usage:

java -jar robots-wrapper-x.y.z.jar <robots-dir>

Example (for Windows):

java -jar robots-wrapper-0.2.0.jar "C:\robocode\robots"

Important note

Note that you need to create a lib folder inside the robots directory prior to running the robots wrapper. And you need to copy the robocode-api-x.y.z.jar library (from the Robocode API adapter library) into the lib directory. The script files in the created bot directories is depending on this library.

Build commands

Clean build directory:

gradle clean

Build/compile artifact:

gradle build

The generated library (Robots Wrapper) can be found under /build/libs named robots-wrapper-x.y.z.jar.