Bukkit's /help command

Hi,

as most of you know, the plugin Essentials sort of overrides Bukkit's intern /help command.
I'd like to do that as well, also with other commands.

How can I achieve this?

-Kierrow

 

You can register a CommandExecutor to a certain command label.
In your onEnable() do this:

Code:

CommandExecutor executor = new MyHelpCommandExecutor();
getCommand("help").setExecutor(executor);

You'd have to make a class named MyHelpCommandExecutor which extends CommandExecutor.
It has the onCommand() method.
.... i think?

Wait, you'd have to register it in the plugin.yml too.
I think this will not go well.

Let me know how it goes.

Edit: maybe you don't have to register it at all
Edit again: i guess try and do essentials.getCommand("help");

Yeah, I tried it. Awesome.

If you don't know how:

get the essentials plugin like this

Code:

Plugin plugin getServer().getPluginManager().getPlugin("Essentials");
if(plugin != null && plugin instanceof Essentials)
{
        // plugin exists
       // and it is the one you have added as External JAR
        essentials = (Essentials) plugin;//type casting
}

then set the executor like i said

Code:

CommandExecutor executor = new MyHelpCommandExecutor();
getCommand("help").setExecutor(executor);

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

 

but there must be a way to get a callback on that command without having Essentials.
I mean, they must have gotten it from somewhere as well...

I'll just play around with it a little, see how it goes

 

True,

You could check out the Essentials plugin's source code.
And take a look how they did it.

You can google "minecraft essentials github"

Just do this:

Code:

CommandExecutor executor = new MyHelpCommandExecutor();
getCommand("help").setExecutor(executor);

Register the help command in the plugin.yml (it seams to work fine, no conflicts)

All that Essentials does is: Allow you to turn off the help command in the config file.
I think Essentials does NOT do anything special to override Minecraft's/Bukkit's help command.

Conclusion, just do it!

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