Truthfully I'm surprised a plugin like this doesn't exist, or if one does that I couldn't find it. I'm sure quite a few Minecraft servers have a website, and on that website is a blog with news. And every blog has an RSS feed. Well then, why not have a 'Bukkit RSS reader' that sends the title of the latest RSS item to the chat of a player when they connect. This would be a quick and easy way to inform players (when they connect) of new news, like if you've added a new plugin and want everyone to know. Obviously the config file would require the feed address, and an interval in which to check for new feed entries (instead of checking every time a player connects) and store the title in a text file. With this, could even have a /news command that shows the latest x amount of news posts, also specified in the config file. The best thing to do would to not require a permissions entry by default, but if servers want only specific groups to receive the news, then a switch in the config file would also be good (to enable this). A customizable prefix to the title in chat (like [News]) would also be nice. Thanks for reading my suggestion, and thanks in advance to whoever decides to make this.
So this is roughly what I'd like: On Player Connect: [News] Our server is now running Minecraft (Bukkit) 1.0! On /news Command: [News] ** All items can be read at http://{site} ** [News] 1. Our server is now running Minecraft (Bukkit) 1.0! [News] 2. Plugins recently updated: ______ [News] 3. Our dynamic map is now working! [News] 4. Recent downtime: 22/11/2011 In config file: feed url: http://site.com/rss.xml feed items: 5 //how many items show up in /news command, 5 by default check interval: 30 //in minutes, 30 by default permissions: disabled //whether player requires newsplugin.read permissions, off by default (isn't needed, but would be nice to have) prefix: [News] //prefix for each line info: ** All news can be found at http://site.com ** //first line in /news command, before the list of posts
I've begun working on this, hopefully I'll have a basic version tonight, though this external library i'm using is gonna make the file like 80kb lol edit: well i got it pulling one thing (the wrong thing), but it's looking promising Ok, so besides permission support, and by default it points to my websites RSS feed (which i feel is unnecessary for this kind of thing so will not implement unless asked to), its all done, heres a link while i set it up on bukkit dev, http://dcp.wwsean08.com/dl.php?id=news&ver=latest EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
yah i have a working version up, i am waiting for it to get approved on bukkit dev, but its posted on my site and theres a link above, and heres the bukkitdev link for whenever it gets approved, http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/news-rss-feed/
Wow, I'm actually getting some replies now! Thanks guys for helping me out. Edit: Forgot one line in the config that I'd like (prefix). Added to post #2.
ok i'll take care of that right now, it'll probably be up within 10 minutes Ok there we go, here's a version with the prefix line, http://dcp.wwsean08.com/dl.php?id=news&ver=latest edit: and now i'm going to sleep EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
I get the following error (guessing it's for 1.8.1? I should've specified 1.0.0, but I wrote the post late September...): Code: 2011-12-12 05:57:06 [SEVERE] Could not load 'plugins\News.jar' in folder 'plugins': java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/wwsean08/RSSMOTD/RssMotd : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:36) at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:24) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source) at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:170) at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:215) at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:136) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:151) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.reload(CraftServer.java:434) at org.bukkit.Bukkit.reload(Bukkit.java:187) at org.bukkit.command.defaults.ReloadCommand.execute(ReloadCommand.java:22) at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:165) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:378) at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.handleCommand(NetServerHandler.java:756) at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.chat(NetServerHandler.java:721) at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:714) at net.minecraft.server.Packet3Chat.a(Packet3Chat.java:33) at net.minecraft.server.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:226) at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:92) at net.minecraft.server.NetworkListenThread.a(SourceFile:108) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:527) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:425) at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:457) Anyway, I'll let you sleep, and we'll see how BoomBox goes. Thanks again for the awesome help. Edit: Nope, same error on 1.8.1. I think you set the major version to 51.0 instead of 1.0 Edit 2: One last request in the config file, check post #2 ("info"). Edit 3: BoomBox finished the first version of his RSSFeeder, which works nicely. However, I'd still like to try your one out Sean.
ok so I'm pretty sure the error is happening because i compiled it against java 7 and you are using java 6, so I will make that adjustment. I also have added what you requested as well as the permission node so that players can ignore the message of the day so to speak. I finally made it so you can turn on and off the info on the onjoin (so you can have it so it only shows on /news). there we go, updated, you can either grab it from my site here or from bukkitdev EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
thats very odd since i'm not getting that locally on my test server. Mind running the command java -version and letting me know what it says
Java version "1.6.0_29" Java SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_29-b11) Java HotSpot Client VM (build 20.4-b02, mised mode, sharing)
ok, try this one, it should work, http://dcp.wwsean08.com/dl.php?id=news&ver=1.0.3 edit: I was able to test it on a server running java 6 so it should work for you as well
