Asyncronous Tasks...

Hey everyone,

I am currently working on my plugin and I want to run some code every few seconds or so. The code I am writing is a Mob / Animal manager that is responsable for spawning and setting up levels of mobs.

But, I see in the javadocs for async code that I should not use any Bukkit calls.

Can anyone tell me if there'd be a problem using these calls to spawn mobs if I prevent the default spawning from happening ?

Thanks,

Michael

 

Michael Rhodes Spawning mobs, like almost all other Bukkit calls, is not thread safe and cannot be safely done asynchronously.

 

oh hey michael

Code:

public class Timer extends BukkitRunnable
{
 
private booleanactive;
 
private Coreplugin;
 
public Timer(Core plugin, long initialDelay, long delayBetweenRuns)
{
 
active = false;
this.plugin = plugin; // For further use
this.runTaskTimer(plugin, initialDelay, delayBetweenRuns);
}
 
public Timer()
{
 
}
 
@Override
public void run()
{
 
if(active)
{
//spawn the mobs here
}
}
 
public void enable()
{
 
this.active = true;
}
 
public void disable()
{
 
this.active = false;
}
 
public void stop()
{
 
Bukkit.getScheduler().cancelTask(this.getTaskId());
}
}

 

nitrousspark Why are you defining a no args constructor, and doesn't BukkitRunnable already have a method to cancel itself?