Plugin will not load

I just finished coding my plugin and when I start my server up it gives me this error.

Code:

org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:132)
22.07 23:38:11 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.getPluginDescription(JavaPluginLoader.java:252)
22.07 23:38:11 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile.<init>(PluginDescriptionFile.java:188)
22.07 23:38:11 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile.loadMap(PluginDescriptionFile.java:849)
22.07 23:38:11 [Server] INFO org.bukkit.plugin.InvalidDescriptionException: commands are of wrong type
22.07 23:38:11 [Server] SEVERE Could not load 'plugins/Paintballer.jar' in folder 'plugins'

 

Your plugin.yml is not formatted correctly.

 

microgeek this is my format

Code:

name: Paintball
main: Main.Paintball
version: 1.0.1
authors: [jbitters]
description: Paintball for minecraft
commands:
  red:
    description: Join the red team
  blue:
    description: Join the blue team
  random:
    description: Join a random team
  leave:
    description: Leave the current team your on
  shop:
    description: Base of the shop command
    aliases: [sp]
  whisper:
    description: Talk to another player
    aliases: [wp]
  spawn:
    description: Teleport back to spawn
  setspawn:
    description: Set the spawn
    aliases: [ss]
  paintball:
    description: Main command
  vipslowdown:
    description: VIP slowdown perk
  vipconfusion:
    description: VIP confusion perk
  vipsnowball:
    description: More snowballs for VIP
  setteamspawn:
    description: Set team spawn
  setarena:
    description: Set arena
  setteamflag:
    description: Set team flag
  done:
    description: Base of the vote command
  depend: [Vault]

 

depend: [Vault] should not be under commands.

 

SnipsRevival Where should I put it?

 

With the rest of the stuff at the top.

 

SnipsRevival Is that the only thing that is wrong?

 

Your main may be wrong. If your package is not called Main and your main class is not called Paintball, it is wrong.

 

Jbitters3
Some spacing errors. But maybe thats just the copy-paste issue

 

never use tabs in a plugin.yml. if you used tabs for your spaces, remove them, and put 4 spaces where the tabs were, for instance

Code:

commands:
[1234]command:
[12345678]description: desc

or, click your last line and check if there are spaces after the last line. if there are, remove them. These are what usually happens to me, hope this helps!

EDIT: authors should be author also, even if there are multiple authors. its how bukkit reads the files.

 

xTrollxDudex BenCS_ When I'm on eclipse it says when I export, JAR creation failed. See details for additional information.
Resource is out of sync with the file system: '/Paintball/plugin.yml'.

 

Jbitters3 hm.. take a screenshot of the plugin folder. for instance this. http://gyazo.com/aa4c65d9622f93ad618ce7e216b73c27 your plugin.yml might not be where it is supposed to be.

 

BenCS_ http://gyazo.com/b70f89eaffb68535889eebb1689031df

 

seems to be in the right place... take a screenshot of the details when it says it won't export.

 

BenCS_ http://gyazo.com/061bb860098347dea01ce1217a02d1b7

 

That is really weird. Try creating a notepad to backup your plugin.yml, and delete the one in eclipse and try typing it like this:

Code:java

name: Name
main: your.package.mainclass (case sensitive)
author(s): [Author(s)]
depend: [Essentials, Vault, Example]
version: 1.0
commands:
[1234]command:
[12345678]description: desc
/* For the [1234] and [12345678] put how many spaces are inbetween the brackets. Dont use tabs, and do not copy and paste things into the plugin.yml. also, click on the last line after you type it and check if there are spaces after the last line and delete them.*/

if that does not work, I really don't know what is wrong. everything looks about right.

 

Lovely thing everyone should have is a text editor that has direct tab to space support or regex text search & replacement. Because YAML is a pain in the neck.

 

yea that happens, there is no way to fix it, you just have to click export again and it works

 

Techy4198 To fix it you just refresh your project and boom works.

 

I do. I have notepad++ which supports that, also a nice feature is that you can open all your yaml files at once, go into replace window, turn on the 'extended' option, set it to replace \t with 4 spaces, then hit 'replace all in all opened documents' and bam yer yaml be fixed

how u refresh the project? I don't see a button for that. is eclipse juno outdated?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Either right click on the project and refresh or click the project and press f5

 

spacing is not important in yaml. but indentation is. for example

Code:

name: x
version: 1.2.3
commands:
    command1:
        description: xxx
        usage: /xxx

and

Code:

name: x
version: 1.2.3
commands:
  command1:
            description: xxx
            usage: /xxx

will both work. does that make sense? probably not but anyway that's always been the case for me at least.
i'm guessing this whole '4 spaces instead of each tab' thing is just standard practice for making them easy to read but it should still work with 3, 5, or even 15 spaces for each tab.

 

maybe it might be because you are missing the usage section of the command

Code:

commands:
  command:
    usage: /<command>
    description: some description

 

Techy4198 Its not the indentation, its whether or not you use tabs or spaces, you have to use spaces with yaml.

 

I know what you mean but im just saying you can use any number of spaces instead of tabs, as long as 'command1' stays more indented than 'commands', 'description' stays more indented than 'command1', etc.

um nope... just tried that and eclipse froze, so I killed it, tried again and my pc almost crashed. I think I might need to redownload eclipse

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Techy4198 Lol

 

Chiller You think thats funny? Today I actually copied my main class into 25 other classes. Eclipse was so glitchy! After retarting my computer it put random letters from my main into the other classes. Thats when you switch to NetBeans D:

 

Why did you need to copy your main class into 25 other classes???

 

Chiller I didnt! It glitched! D:

 

JPG2000 what version of eclipse u using? I use juno and it aint ever glitched on me