Beginner, Please could you help?

Hey all.

I have resently started my own minecraft server using bukkit, and i would like to develope a plugin and i got this far before hitting a snag in the road. Please could someone point me in the right direction?

classfile

Code:

package uk.co.hewparg.sparton224.hewparg;
 
import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 
class hewparg extends JavaPlugin{
   
    Logger log = Logger.getLogger("Minecraft");
   
    public void onEnable(){
        log.info("Your plugin has been enabled.");
    }
   
    public void onDisable(){
        log.info("Your plugin has been disabled.");
    }
   
   
   
}

.yml file

Code:

name: hewparg
main: uk.co.hewparg.sparton224.hewparg.hewparg
version: 0.1

I get errors in my command pompt when i try to run the server and enable the plugin.
Sorry i am realy new to java, I usally code PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL

Error Image :

 

Your missing the plugin.yml in the jar, make sure you compiled it with the yml

 

you forgot the

Code:

@Override

above onEnable and onDisable

No I don't think so. That would give another error, like "couldn't load xy.jar because it doesn't contains a plugin.yml" or something.

 

and I cant believe I missed that xD

 

So what you saying is the code should look like

Code:

package uk.co.hewparg.sparton224.hewparg;
 
import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 
class hewparg extends JavaPlugin{
 
    Logger log = Logger.getLogger("Minecraft");
  @Override
    public void onEnable(){
        log.info("Your plugin has been enabled.");
    }
 
    public void onDisable(){
        log.info("Your plugin has been disabled.");
    }
 
 
 
}

 

partly yes.
You need another @Override over onDisable.

Code:

@Override
public void onEnable()
{
    ...
}
 
@Override
public void onDisable()
{
  ...
}

so something like this.

 

what's even better is that in Bukkit R4 these methods aren't needed the way you are using them now, yes you use onEnable() when you need to load something on serverload and you don't need you add the log.info("This plugin has loaded") because bukkit has in-built one.

 

this is most likely every time the case. Also it's already implemented in R3.

 

The @Override annotation is not required but is considered good programming practice. It tells the compiler that the method it prefixes should be overriding a method from a base class. This means common mistakes like spelling mistakes or wrong parameters will be caught at compile time rather than at runtime which is much harder to debug.

Bukkit is using reflection to find a no-arg constructor for you class which appears to be failing. I am not sure what the reason is though because it should be automatically created for you as long as you don't declare any constructors yourself.

Something that may be worth trying is to add "public" at the front of your class declaration

Code:

public class hewparg extends JavaPlugin{

 

Code:

import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 
 
public class hewparg extends JavaPlugin{
public Logger log;
 
  @Override
    public void onEnable(){
log.getLogger("Minecraft");
        log.info("Your plugin has been enabled.");
    }
@Override
    public void onDisable(){
        log.info("Your plugin has been disabled.");
    }
 
 
 
}