CreatureType asking to be initialized as a null?

well that doesn't exactly work as it would crash the plugin so how exactly do i get it to work.
CreatureType Zombie = null; (i figured shouldn't exactly work)
so what do i set it as. it's inside of the onBlockBreak and for a reason, also if possible it would be nice if you can provide what you did to find out what it should equal to. (so i don't have to continuously stumble across this problem)

anyone?

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

 

Not entirely sure I understand what you're asking.
Could you post your code?

 

yes of course my good man. not exactly my entire code but a clean snippet. I'm basically asking how people figure out what should equal for Creature creaturetype...cause...
public void onBlockBreak(BlockBreakEvent event) {
CreatureType Zombie;
plugin.SpawnCreature(player.getLocation(), Zombie);
}

says CreatureType Zombie needs to have a variable and the default null just won't cut it for bukkit.. I encountered this problem before with
World world; and to fix it a plugin dev told me to use this.getServer().getWorld("World"); since it was in the main plugin area and I was wondering.
1) how did he figure out what to put in there
2) where does it say in the documentation to make[cause I wouldn't have guessed the world should equal a get world function of inside the plugin, I'd assume it was from the world listener]
World world = this.getServer().getWorld("World");

 

CreatureType is an enum.

 

CreatureType Zombie = new CreatureType;
meep, that doesn't work X_X I'm abit new to java and bukkit; so as a dev coming from C++ this gets rather complicated for me to understand

 

CreatureType is not a class, but is an enum and it's values should be accessed like so:

Code:

CreatureType.ZOMBIE

So for example you would do:

Code:

plugin.SpawnCreature(player.getLocation(), CreatureType.ZOMBIE);

When in doubt look at JavaDoc.

 

ah thank you so much /bow T_T so much help from these forums. I must contribute my plugins!!