SteemJ Fork Release 0.4.6-20180901-01

SteemJ Fork Dev Release 0.4.6-20180901-00

Hello Devs!

This is a maintenance release for the @muksihs fork of SteemJ.

The biggest change is adding the ability to set "post format" and to add extra metadata to the jsonMetadata portion of each post.

Background:

As some of you may know, I run a game bot for the old school "Far Horizons" play by email game adapted for playing over the steem blockchain.

In the current game being played between me and one other player, the compressed game data being posted was becoming unwieldy to have it displayed in the body of a post. So it was decided the game data would be better if it could be shoved ino the jsonMetadata portion of a post. But alas... the SteemJ utility routines being used by the Far Horizons bot (@leatherdog-games) did not support arbitrary jsonMetadata being added to each post.

Resolution:

So I added the necessary support to the SteemJ utility routines to be able to add arbitrary jsonMetadata while trying to maintain backward compatibility with existing utility routine contracts.

In Closing:

This was enough of a useful change, (at least for my purposes), that I felt it warranted a tagged release. So here it is: jitpack.io release

GITHUB: https://github.com/muksihs/steem-java-api-wrapper