plugin triggers other plugin command?

Minotorious · May 11th 2017

Is it possible for one plugin to somehow trigger a command from another plugin?
e.g. I have a plugin that sends a message upon a player typing /msg blabla (using the playerCommandEvent) can I make another plugin trigger that command? I was looking for a method like sendCommand but I couldn't find anything relevant in the API doc.

red51 · May 13th 2017

Well, basically you can load the second plugin as a lib into your existing plugin project, and then use the plugin.getPluginByID() or plugin.getPluginByName() (or plugin.getAllPlugins()) method to find the particular plugin instance. You could perform a type-cast and access the particular methods of this plugin then, e.g.:

Java

//Plugin A (Project "HotPlugin")
public class MyHotPlugin extends Plugin{
    //body
}


//////////////////////////////////////////


//somewhere in Plugin B (Plugin A was added as lib)
Plugin otherPlugin = getPluginByName("HotPlugin");
if(otherPlugin != null && otherPlugin instanceof MyHotPlugin){
    MyHotPlugin hotPlugin = (MyHotPlugin) otherPlugin;

    //call a method of the hot plugin
    hotPlugin.doSomethingAwesome();
}

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Minotorious · May 13th 2017

Interesting...I didn't know you could do that with the API, thanks red

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