Allow the Multimeter to be used on Generators

[TheBusyBiscuit]

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🔎 Scope

The following bullet points explain what the scope of this feature should be.
It should give a general idea of what we want, you can of course deviate from this as needed.

• The Multimeter should be able to read the current energy output from any generator
  • Solar Generators could display some extra debugging info, like the current time and weather, this could help resolve Solar Generators not generating any power #2280

⚓ Difficulty

Here is our honest estimate on how difficult (on a scale of 1-5) the implementation may be:

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🚧 Technical Challenges

These are some challenges which may need to be overcome, we wanna be as transparent as possible, so here is some guidance on what may present itself as an obstacle.

• Getting the energy output from a generator may not be that straight-forward, as it is calculated "on the fly" by the Energy Regulator. So one possible solution to this would be to "queue" this request and wait for the energy regulator to generate the output and then send the message to the player

📝 Relevant Classes or Snippets

Here are some classes or code snippets which we think might help you get a better understanding where to look for in this gigantic codebase

• Multimeter.java
• EnergyNetProvider.java - This interface marks a machine as a "generator"

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[Muskan0510]

Hi @TheBusyBiscuit I'd like to work on this. Could you assign it to me?

[Muskan0510]

Hi, should I implement a getGeneratedOutput function that works for all the generators in the Multimeter class?

[TheBusyBiscuit]

Hi, should I implement a getGeneratedOutput function that works for all the generators in the Multimeter class?

I am not quite sure whether this would help you out a lot.
The way I'd approach this would be to add a HashMap to the EnergyNet which stores the Location of the block that was clicked and the Player UUID.
And then when the EnergyNet ticks, get the requested player (or not) and send them a message with the energy this generator just generated during this tick.

[md5sha256]

@TheBusyBiscuit I'd like to give this a crack.