Solved Using other plugins and failing to connect to them safely

Ok, so in my plugin PvPTag, I use TagAPI to change people's name colors. However, I'd like that to be optional. Usually enabling/disabling features is easy (conditionally registering the listener), however I'm not sure how it'd work with a third party plugin. If TagAPI isn't on the server, will an exception will be thrown when an instance of the listener (containing all the imports and things from TagAPI I'll be using) is generated or will an exception be thrown as soon as the plugin is loaded?

 

Check before you use TagAPI if it is loaded on the server:

Code:java

if (Bukkit.getPluginManager().getPlugin("TagAPI") != null) {
  // TagAPI is loaded on the server
} else {
  // TagAPI is not loaded on the server
}

 

But will it throw an exception if it tries to import TagAPI objects? Because I can't stop it from importing them. Actually, maybe I can use the full names.. mbaxter Do you know?

 

Tirelessly
If you don't use TagAPI objects / methods it won't give an error.

 

Create a separate listener class for TagAPI listening. Only instantiate if TagAPI is loaded.

 

Thanks. I wasn't sure if the imports would make it not work.

 

Imports are ok, but referring to classes when they are not present will throw a NoClassDefFoundError.