Frequently Asked Questions

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Missing synchronous alternatives for some functions

While mcproto does provide synchronous functionalities for the general protocol interactions (reading/writing packets and lower level structures), any unrelated functionalities (such as HTTP interactions with the Minecraft API) will only provide asynchronous versions.

This was done to reduce the burden of maintaining 2 versions of the same code. The only reason protocol intercation even have synchronous support is because it’s needed in the Buffer class. (See Issue #128 for more details on this decision.)

Generally, we recommend that you just stick to using the asynchronous alternatives though, both since some functions only support async, and because async will generally provide you with a more scalable codebase, making it much easier to handle multiple things concurrently.