[broken] How to easy test your plugin with netbeans

Most plugin developers want to test their plugin from the ide, with Netbeans, you can do this.

To set up this feature, you need to have craftbukkit (instead of bukkit) at the classpath of your project you want to set up using this, then configure it like this:

Explanation of the options inside the screenshot:
Main class: the class netbeans calls to start your project, in this case, we want it to start bukkit
Program arguments: here we specify that the plugin folder is found at ../dist and that we don't use JLine (JLine bugs with Netbeans output field)
Working directory: here we specify the path where the important files of the server are found, like bukkit.yml and server.properties
VM Options: here we specify the VM options that we use to start the server, like the amount of RAM

Example testing my own plugin: multiworld


Side notes:
* as far I know, eclipse dont have this option to test from the ide
* using this methodes runs the server with the exact the same version as your compiled your plugin, you don't have to update your server to test as its automatically the same version
* use the clean and build option to remove the directory of the plugin, so you can start over with its data

 

Just to let you know, I just did this in Eclipse. It works beautifully. Thank you.

 

I use Eclipse and what I do is just export the plugin as a jar and then I reload my testserver which is just constantly running in the background. Is there a better way to do this?

 

Diemex - this is what I do too (reload constantly running testserver), that way I don't need to stop/start the server all the time. Although after too long of testing I do run out of permgen space

 

ferrybig
This is awesome! Thanks

 

I think i prefer the old fashion way Then i can test commands etc too

 

Did this in Eclipse as well
This.
This is glorious.

My question is, though:
How can I get it to load my plugin without having to export a new jar of it?
This way, I could use the debug mode in Eclipse.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

try setting the main class to that from craftbukkit

with this, you can test commands from console too type them inside the output field, or do op <your name> to add yourself to the op list so you can test them from ingame

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

So this is a local server that i can join? Nice

 

ferrybig
I've tried making a plugins folder in the server directory, and then using my nbproject/project.properties file to set the jar export location to that folder, but even when my jar is in there, the server doesn't load my plugin =/ How does your situation work?

 

inside my situation, the folders are set up like this
multiworld # main project folder
* dist #default output directy of resulting build
* server #Folder I created to contain the server
* build # a directory from netbeans
* src # Another directory from netbeans
* nbproject # Another directory from netbeans

I configured the server with the following parameters: "-P ../dist"
that says to the server, look up plugins inside multiworld/server/../dist instead of multiworld/server/plugins
multiworld/server/../dist is going to converted to multiworld/dist so it picks up the last build from the dist folder

 

I should've noticed that
Thanks

 

Works perfectly whit eclipse

 

My plugins aren't loading into the server

 

you need to configure the directory where bukkit searches the .jar file, in my example I used this command line thing: -P ../dist as its the default build directory of netbeans

 

Did you get this to work? That would be super epic.

 

No, I didn't. I got it to run when I pressed the Play button in Eclipse, but I couldn't get it to dynamically load my plugin.

 

does eclipse build a jar when you press the play button?

 

not sure

 

I asked it, because this work at the following way:
when you play your project, your ide sets the class path to your build directory and to craftbukkit
when craftbukkit sees your plugin inside the directory, it tries to load the class, java catches its and redirect it to the class path, because that's calculated first, and because of that, it uses the new files

 

It's nice to see someone using NetBeans like me. I never see tutorials for NetBeans.

 

This is awesome, I got it working on eclipse too, its quite laggy though, any ideas on how to improve that?

ferrybig caldabeast

I done this and it kept making a new file called dist, solved it by clicking "variables" in the Project arguments section and selecting project_loc

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ferrybig

Doing this on Ubuntu 12.04 with NetBeans 8 on Java 7 Oracle produces the following log when i run:

Code:

run:
Loading libraries, please wait...
java.lang.SecurityException: sealing violation: can't seal package org.bukkit.event.block: already loaded
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.getAndVerifyPackage(URLClassLoader.java:395)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:417)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.StatisticList.c(SourceFile:95)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.StatisticList.a(SourceFile:59)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.DispenserRegistry.b(SourceFile:359)
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.MinecraftServer.main(MinecraftServer.java:688)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.Main.main(Main.java:159)
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 9 seconds)

Any idea?

 

It seems bukkit has forced the javaplugin to be loaded by the javapluginclassloader, this trick no longer works

 

=(

 

Netbeans... srsly that name haunts me
internet BEANZ

 

* as far I know, eclipse dont have this option to test from the ide

lol wut?


eclipse do allow to test from IDE and do allow "macrostart"(jar your plugins place to proper folder and then run server, cleunp logs and etc without 3rd party addons, but some coding may be required if you going to do something crazy"

 

Sadly, this doesn't work for me. I always get this error:

Code:

[15:47:51 ERROR]: Could not load '..\dist\MyPlugin.jar' in folder '..\dist'
org.bukkit.plugin.InvalidPluginException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JavaPlugin requires org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:131) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:328) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:251) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:355) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.CraftServer.<init>(CraftServer.java:317) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.PlayerList.<init>(PlayerList.java:68) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.DedicatedPlayerList.<init>(SourceFile:14) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:126) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:436) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:628) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JavaPlugin requires org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.<init>(JavaPlugin.java:64) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at de.hellsminer.somepackage.MainPluginClass<init>(MainPluginClass.java:35) ~[classes/:?]
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[?:1.7.0_60]
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) ~[?:1.7.0_60]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[?:1.7.0_60]
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) ~[?:1.7.0_60]
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:374) ~[?:1.7.0_60]
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.<init>(PluginClassLoader.java:52) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:127) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-1-ga6e0bfd-b3095jnks]
    ... 9 more

outside netbeans everything is working...
Anyone who knows why?