Any news on this?
I could really do with this. Is the pull request okay?
Is there any update on this or furthermore what's the status of the PR?
A PR has already been submitted and is under review: https://hub.spigotmc.org/stash/projects/SPIGOT/repos/bukkit/pull-requests/148/overview
I would have made this myself but I don't want to give personal details etc. for this contribution agreement or w/e.
Any update on this...
You have to use ItemMeta when submitting for inclusion in the API, so it's a bit more involved 
Hmm, I wrote a 1.9 version of the class that seems to work okay. I'll submit it as a pull request once I've sorted the legal out. It's GPL 3 anyway.
However, I wrote this mainly to enable itemstack to monster egg conversion and back, and I know nothing about the greater structure of spigot...
If you aren't lazy like me, and instead use reflection it won't break
@LEGOlord
Wouldn't that make my plugin break at each update?
Use NBTTags! When i tried some NBTExplorer magic on single player I found it in "EntityTags" compound I believe, and the name "id". For loading you make it uppercase and EntityType.valueOf(). For saving you would use toString() and toLowerCase
Hmm, can't release my plugin "HothGenerator" before I can set spawn egg type.
How can I do this at the moment? (code example please)
Then I should be able to use NBT to figure it out?
EDIT: yay did it
This is hard. Spawn eggs use NBT not data now, which means that these methods need to be moved into an ItemMeta class belonging to SpawnEgg.
I'm gonna deprecate these two methods since there is no way to make them work, but a replacement is yet to be made.