NPE On Death Event With Packets

I am trying to do an auto-respawn action with my plugin and it is not working. Yes, everything is registered as a listener, for every event in this class works and this event works, but it gives me an NPE on this part:

Code:java

((CraftPlayer) player).getHandle().playerConnection.a(packet);

And this is the code for the respawn:

Code:java

final Player player = event.getEntity();
plugin.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(plugin, new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
if(player.isDead()){
Field a = null;
PacketPlayInClientCommand packet = new PacketPlayInClientCommand();
try {
a = PacketPlayInClientCommand.class.getDeclaredField("a");
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (SecurityException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
a.setAccessible(true);
a.equals(1);
((CraftPlayer) player).getHandle().playerConnection.a(packet);
}
}
}, 2);

And this is the error:

Code:

[00:33:41 WARN]: [CauldronWars] Task #33 for CauldronWars v1.0 generated an exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:1105) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-49-g5a2dda2-b2957jnks]
        at me.BajanAmerican.CauldronWars.CauldronWarsListener$5.run(CauldronWarsListener.java:3637) ~[?:?]
        at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R1.scheduler.CraftTask.run(CraftTask.java:53) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-49-g5a2dda2-b2957jnks]
        at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R1.scheduler.CraftScheduler.mainThreadHeartbeat(CraftScheduler.java:345) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-49-g5a2dda2-b2957jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.u(MinecraftServer.java:587) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-49-g5a2dda2-b2957jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.DedicatedServer.u(DedicatedServer.java:250) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-49-g5a2dda2-b2957jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.t(MinecraftServer.java:545) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-49-g5a2dda2-b2957jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:457) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-49-g5a2dda2-b2957jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:617) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-49-g5a2dda2-b2957jnks]

If anyone can help me out, thanks!

 

'a' could be null, make a check for it

 

BajanAmerican
A is never initialized in the class as you can see in the source, you'd have to do

PHP:

a.setInt(packet, 1);