Java tutorial
/** Copyright (C) 2014 by jabelar This file is part of jabelar's Minecraft Forge modding examples; as such, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. For a copy of the GNU General Public License see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package com.blogspot.jabelarminecraft.blocksmith; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils; /** * @author jabelar * */ public class VersionChecker implements Runnable { private static boolean isLatestVersion = false; private static String latestVersion = ""; /* (non-Javadoc) * @see java.lang.Runnable#run() */ @Override public void run() { InputStream in = null; try { in = new URL( "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jabelar/MagicBeans-1.7.10/master/src/main/java/com/blogspot/jabelarminecraft/magicbeans/version_file") .openStream(); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } try { latestVersion = IOUtils.readLines(in).get(0); // toString(in); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } finally { IOUtils.closeQuietly(in); } System.out.println("Latest mod version = " + latestVersion); isLatestVersion = BlockSmith.MODVERSION.equals(latestVersion); System.out.println("Are you running latest version = " + isLatestVersion); } public boolean isLatestVersion() { return isLatestVersion; } public String getLatestVersion() { return latestVersion; } }