Help needed - Command Registration/Listening

What is the easiest "proper" up-to-date method of reacting to a player/server/console command?

I've been looking at plugin source, forum posts etc and found contradicting methods....

 

There are are 2 (or maybe 3) ways you might see it done.

One is to hook into the onPlayerCommand event, which will no longer work - it was removed from craftbukkit several versions ago.

Another would be to use the onPlayerChat event, but I don't really know why you'd do that.

The propper way is by registering the command in your plugin.yml and having a function:

Code:

public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd, String commandLabel, String[] args){

}

in your main JavaPlugin class. That will be called whenever one of your registered commands are used.

 

Thanks.

 

If you really need onPlayerCommand, there is onPlayerCommandPreprocess, for those special cases where onCommand doesn't cut it.