Use external API in my Bukkit plugin?

Hi everyone,
i try to include the java-skype-api by taksan to my plugin, so that i can call the

skype.chat("Text") in my plugin and so that i can let the plugin send a message to skype.

But i always get a dependecy error when i add the depen: [skype-java-api-1.4] to the plugins.yml
and when i put the jar of the skype-java api in the plugins folder bukkit trys to load it as plugin.

In general i dont excactly know where i must paste the skype-java-api.jar and how i must reference it in my plugin or how i must include the skype-java api. Can someone help please?
Thanks so much.
Greetings
FameForAim

 

@FameForAim
Erm... java-skype-api isn't a plugin in bukkit.. And, therefore, you can't use it in minecraft. It is an api for SKYPE, and not MINECRAFT/BUKKIT.

 

@BlazingBroGamer
hou? i thought the api allows java to interact with skype? why this should not be possible in a bukkit plugin?

 

@FameForAim
Done my research, well sorry for my mistake, I guess you can do it in bukkit. Anyways, you don't put it in the dependencies in plugin.yml. Just put the jar file in the plugins folder, where your plugin is as well.

 

nonono defnitly not, it is not a plugin it is just an external api which i use in my plugin.
i can not just put it in the plugins folder... @BlazingBroGamer
Someone who knows something about api please!

 

@FameForAim
No... A Java App loads the dependencies from the same folder it is in. Well it might give errors in the console, but your plugin will have it loaded.

 

well it dont work i think. i have to reference it somewhere but i dont know where

 

@FameForAim
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tutorial-use-external-library-s-with-your-plugin.103781/ I found a tutorial on this, from another forum.

 

i found it too but its way to complicated. i am sure the solution is easier but thanks for your search
@BlazingBroGamer

 

That skype api only works if skype is installed on the same computer you are using that api on. It works this way because it has to hook into skypes internals as there is now "official" skype api to interact with skype outside of skype. So, in effect this will not work how you want to and you will end up being disappointed (as i was when i worked on something like that)

 

yes i have installed skype too. i just want to send in a skype conference when a player joins the server. So this should work should not it?
@Goblom

 

@FameForAim

You're opening a giant can of worms when you reference an external API of a program that generally likes being secure in your plugin.

This is not a good idea, and you really should not attempt to do this.

 

Use maven shade to include the necessary files from the api within your own jarfile.

You can add a check for whether or not the system has installed Skype. There's no direct Java API way of doing so, however you can use JNI to load a C-library and then compile scripts for checking on different platforms. It'd be a bit roundabout, but it is possible.

Please don't state comments like fact if you aren't certain that they're true, as in this case neither of these statements are correct

 

If you dont try it you will never learn it ;D @mythbusterma

Yeah i will try it with maven shading but i dont know exactly how has someone experiences with that skype api?

 

@FameForAim

I'm not saying that it is too difficult, I'm saying it's a terrible, insecure, ill-founded idea.

There are very good reasons not to do this, and if you do do this, I look forward to stealing the Skype passwords of everyone that joins your server.

 

I think you did not understand it? The plugin only runs on the server. How the hell this should get the skype passwords of the users? It is a porject with friends so i think there will not be someone who steal the passwords.

The server just should be like a skype bot who posts when someone is logging in ?
@mythbusterma

 

@FameForAim

Ah, that's different. Then what's your issue with this? Use Maven's shading and you'll be fine.

 

yes and thats why i am struggeling about ;D get multiple errors because of my packages etc...
and i do not know how to add the ressource and the dependencys
@mythbusterma

i even get a error when creating a maven project... this maven thing sucks that hard..

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

 

@FameForAim

Does the Skype API even have a Maven repository? Also, it would probably just be easier to add it to your build path in Eclipse (assuming you use that inferior IDE...).

 

yeah i found another way to manage it i just add the folders to the project.
But now i have the problem that skype does not send the message in the group conversation.

Skype registers the external interaction with java because it shows the message weather i will allow it
But the chat does not sends at all. Here my code

Code:

    String id = Skype.getContactList().getGroup("Conferencename").getId();
                    Skype.chat(id).send(p + " joins the server");

i always get a nullpointerexception at string Id line ;(
Edit: i found out the getGroup("String") returns null... do not know what this gives out can someone help?

 

@FameForAim

Perhaps that group doesn't exist? Check their API's docs for information, this is certainly outside the scope of this forum.

 

What makes Eclipse inferior? And which IDE do you prefer?

 

@leon3001

Kind of a satirical jab, but I do prefer IntelliJ IDEA, honestly.

 

http://bukkit.org/threads/development-team-help.279440/#post-2578349

 

@1Rogue Interesting post; can only agree to most of it. I used Eclipse up to now without really thinking about the alternatives. But thank you for linking that post, I might just switch over to Netbeans now.

 

i checked the docs already there isnt a example for this:/ can someone help me out pls?