Give a Perm

How do I give a player a permission though a command.
ex. /give would give the player essentials.fly

 

You need to use PermissionAttachment. If you can get the player variable, through an event or command, you can use "PermissionAttachment attachment = Player.addAttachment(JavaPlugin)".

For example if the command was in your main class:

Code:

public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command command, String label, String[] args)
{
    Player player = null;
    if (sender instanceof Player)
    {
        player = (Player) sender;
    }
 
    if (command.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("give")
    {
        if (player != null)
        {
            PermissionAttachment attachment = player.getAttachment(this);
            attachment.setPermission("essentials.fly", true);
        }
    }
}

You can add more to this to add command permissions or to add arguments, so you can set the permission for other players.

You can read more about this here: http://wiki.bukkit.org/Developing_a_permissions_plugin

 

Unfortunately your code won't work, since there is no player.getAttachment() method. In any case, using just Bukkit calls is only useful for adding transient permissions to players - those nodes won't survive a server restart. To do that, you need to get the permission node into the player's permission plugin so it can be saved.

geoff0217 I would recommend either looking at the way Vault does it, or just hook Vault and use it (if you want to add permissions which survive a server restart you'll want to hook Vault anyway).

For adding a transient permission with Bukkit calls only: https://github.com/MilkBowl/Vault/blob/master/src/net/milkbowl/vault/permission/Permission.java#L219

For adding persistent permission nodes (surviving a server restart), use Vault's Permission.playerAdd() call: http://mythcraft.dyndns.org/javadoc/vault/net/milkbowl/vault/permission/Permission.html