Bukkit 4 Beginners | Tut. 2 - Loggers and Plugin.yml

Welcome back everyone! Tutorial 2 in Bukkit 4 Beginners! As promised in last tutorial, I said we shall be doing Loggers and our plugin.yml!

Previous Lesson

We were left with this code:

Code:java

package me.MineStein.BukkitTut;
 
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 
public class Core extends JavaPlugin{
 
    public void onEnable(){
 
    }
 
    public void onDisable(){
 
    }
 
}
 

Now we will be adding Loggers to let our console know we enabled and disabled the plugin!

You can use loggers in two ways

First way:

Code:java

Bukkit.getServer().getLogger().<LoggerType>("<Message>")

Second way:

Code:java

getLogger().<LoggerType>("<Message>")

They both achieve the same goal, and will give off a code somewhat like this:

Code:

[<LoggerType]<Message>

So here is how we will be using it inside our plugin

Code:java

package me.MineStein.BukkitTut;
 
import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 
public class Core extends JavaPlugin{
 
    public void onEnable(){
        Bukkit.getServer().getLogger().info("BukkitTut enabled!");
    }
 
    public void onDisable(){
        Bukkit.getServer().getLogger().info("BukkitTut disabled!");
    }
 
}
 

This is our code so far, no more coding for now.

Now we need to create our plugin.yml (It is essential!)

1) Right click on "src"
2) Create a new file
3) Name it "plugin.yml"

This is the formatting:

Code:

name: BukkitTut
author: MineStein:
main: me.MineStein.BukkitTut.Core
version: 1.0
commands:
 
permissions:

Next time, we will create a command, learn about colors, and learn events!

Next Lesson (Link Coming Soon)

 

Enable and disable messages have been sent automatically in console for a while now

 

MineStein
Don't make a new post for every "lesson". Reserve comments from the first post and edit later.

 

xTrollxDudex Thank you for the tip

ampayne2 This is the practice I tend to follow, it is just nice to make sure. Thanks for the opinion

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

 

No, there are Enabling and Disabling messages. These occur at the start of the process. Sometimes you want to know when it finishes, especially true if your doing some long task like upgrading a previous versions database schema to the latest, which may involve time consuming data conversions.

 

You'll know when it finishes because the next enable message will print

Database conversions also don't seem very relevant to a tutorial in which people with no Java knowledge copy-paste onEnable methods into an IDE.

 

MineStein
To prevent you from wasting your time, I don't think these tutorials are necessary on the bukkit Forums.

 

BungeeTheCookie I already made the decision of taking them down.