Why can't i import NMS in Spigot?

Question

import net.minecraft.server;

gives me the error:

Cannot resolve symbol 'minecraft'

How do i fix this? The version of spigot api i am using is

spigot-api-1.14.4-R0.1-20191205.000449-89-shaded.jar

When i tried to import net.minecraft.server, it couldnt find it. Do i have a dependency issue?

Answer 1

Spigot does not include NMS with its maven packages. The legal way to do what you are after is to download BuildTools and run it via:

java -jar BuildTools.jar --rev 1.14.4

This command will not only build Spigot but also install the resulting artifacts to your local maven repository. Then, you can include your dependency as follows:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.spigotmc</groupId>
  <artifactId>spigot-server</artifactId>
  <version>1.14.4-R0.1</version>
</dependency>

Note that you have to change spigot-api to spigot-server which is the artifact that also includes NMS.