Is chunk generated?

Simple, is there any way to know whether a chunk has been generated or not yet? I ask because I have not been able to find any sort of function to do this in the logical places...

 

yeh you can do this with

world.isChunkLoaded(chunk);

 

No, that just checks if the chunk is loaded, regardless of whether it's actually been generated or not yet.

 

go inside the world files, and see if its there?

 

I guess you could abuse the loadChunk method.

Code:java

World world = Bukkit.getServer().getWorld("MyWorld");
int x = 0; //replace with position of chunk
int z = 0; //replace with position of chunk
if (!world.loadChunk(x, z, false)) {
//chunk was not generated yet
}

See http://jd.bukkit.org/apidocs/org/bukkit/World.html#loadChunk(int, int, boolean)
Code was not tested.

[edit]
Ignore the above and listen for ChunkLoadEvents. There is a method there called isNewChunk().

 

Loading, generating and populating are different stages. There is no way one can tell if a chunk has been fully populated. Vote for this feature request https://bukkit.atlassian.net/browse/BUKKIT-2753