Solved Plugin Already Initialized

Alright, so I'm trying to make an API. I have my public static methods, everything's good there. I have a simple API reader to test it, and it works. However, every time I try to reload my KingdomLifeAPI with Plugman while APIReader is still enabled, it gives me an IllegalStateException, saying that my plugin's already initialized.
Problem is, I tried taking out any instances. I tried using the instance provided by the getPlugin method.

I tried using

Code:

((Player)sender).sendMessage(KingdomLifeAPI.test("Hip hip hooray!"));

instead.

Doesn't work. It has something to do with my APIReader, because it only does that after I use /readAPI.
Please help, this is an extremely frustrating bug that I've been trying to fix for days, but it's not giving up.

APIReader code:

Code:

package com.patrickzhong.APIReader;

import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;

import com.patrickzhong.kingdomlifeapi.KingdomLifeAPI;

public class APIReader extends JavaPlugin{
    public void onEnable(){
        getLogger().info("APIReader enabled!");
    }
  
    public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd, String label, String[] args){
        if(cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("readAPI")){
            ((Player)sender).sendMessage(((KingdomLifeAPI)getServer().getPluginManager().getPlugin("KingdomLifeAPI")).test("Hip hip hooray!"));
            return true;
        }
      
        return false;
    }
}

API test method:

Code:

public static String test(String testString){
        return ChatColor.AQUA+"The API works! "+testString;
    }

 

Bump I'm stupid

 

@ShowbizLocket61

1. DON'T BLIND CAST! Check if the sender is actaully a player before casting
2. Why don't you just add "KingdomLifeAPI" as a dependency, and simply use "KingdomLifeAPI.test()"

 

@Zombie_Striker
The users of my plugin know to not use it from console. As I specified above, I've tried

Code:

((Player)sender).sendMessage(KingdomLifeAPI.test("Hip hip hooray!"));

to no avail

@timtower
No, I don't get the error when I restart the server. I also don't get the error when I disable APIReader, then reload the API.
Also, if I use /readAPI and then disable the API, /readAPI still works. So there's an instance of the API somewhere, I just can't find it.

 

@timtower
Plugman's being doing great on every other plugin, it's just this API-APIReader pair that's been tripping it up, because it doesn't disable both of them. I want to edit my code so that the API can independently reload without having to disable APIReader.

 

@timtower
I'm still testing, debugging, and fixing my API and it's a pain to restart every time. As far as I know, plugman was created to alleviate that pain.

 

@timtower
Yes, but I'm going to hook two plugins on to the api.
Disable, disable, disable, start, start, start.
Kind of annoying, isn't it?

 

In your on disable for both plugins, disable the other plugin?

 

@Flaps
Thank you so much! That was an awesome suggestion! Works perfectly, thank you so much!!!

 

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