Overriding creature spawners

Hello there,

I started working on a plugin that would add-on to the minecraft survival experience by adding a better use for spawners, for that, I wanted to override the spawners with custom entity spawning which will be handled by the plugin.

What I stuck on is disabling the spawner from spawing the creatures naturally, as it normally does, I have already looked at a thread and the docs and found no helpful answer.

https://bukkit.org/threads/how-to-disable-a-creature-spawner.7276/ - The answer suggested was to set the creature to null which works but I still want the spawner to look like a normal spawner with the animal inside, and not a empty one to which you have to right click it to find out what it is
https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/org/bukkit/block/CreatureSpawner.html - Nothing here

(The verison I'm using is 1.14.4)

 

@MrDaniel What does setting the spawn count of the CreatureSpawner to 0 do?