I have been struggling with this a lot... I am trying to create a simple Chat Format plugin for my server, but I just can't figure it out... it works with one format setting and one permission, but as soon as I add more permissions it has an error in my plugin.yml (according to the console) and doesn't even load... There also aren't any updated Tutorials or decent documentation regarding this... so I am very lost. My code: (Compiler error free) Code: package io.maneo.chat; import org.bukkit.ChatColor; import org.bukkit.entity.Player; import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler; import org.bukkit.event.Listener; import org.bukkit.event.player.AsyncPlayerChatEvent; import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin; public class Chat extends JavaPlugin implements Listener { public void onEnable() { getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(this, this); } @EventHandler public void onChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent event) { Player p = event.getPlayer(); if (p.hasPermission("chat.admin")) { event.setFormat(ChatColor.DARK_RED + "[Admin]" + " " + ChatColor.DARK_RED + "%s" + ":" + " " + ChatColor.WHITE + "%s"); } else if (p.hasPermission("chat.player")) { event.setFormat(ChatColor.GRAY + "%s" + ":" + " " + ChatColor.WHITE + "%s"); } else { event.setFormat("%s: %s"); } } } My plugin.yml: Code: name: Chat version: 1.0 main: io.maneo.chat.Chat author: Maneo description: A Chat formatting plugin. permissions: chat.admin: description: Gives the Admin Chat Format to a player. default: op chat.player: description: Gives the Player Chat Format to a player. default: true
Code: [16:38:39 ERROR]: Could not load 'plugins/Chat.jar' in folder 'plugins' org.bukkit.plugin.InvalidDescriptionException: Invalid plugin.yml at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.getPluginDescription(JavaPluginLoader.java:160) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:133) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_10_R1.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:295) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_10_R1.CraftServer.reload(CraftServer.java:724) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.Bukkit.reload(Bukkit.java:548) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.command.defaults.ReloadCommand.execute(ReloadCommand.java:25) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:140) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_10_R1.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:626) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_10_R1.CraftServer.dispatchServerCommand(CraftServer.java:612) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at net.minecraft.server.v1_10_R1.DedicatedServer.aL(DedicatedServer.java:398) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at net.minecraft.server.v1_10_R1.DedicatedServer.D(DedicatedServer.java:362) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at net.minecraft.server.v1_10_R1.MinecraftServer.C(MinecraftServer.java:643) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at net.minecraft.server.v1_10_R1.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:547) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0_45] Caused by: org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerException: while scanning for the next token found character '\t(TAB)' that cannot start any token. (Do not use \t(TAB) for indentation) in 'reader', line 9, column 5: description: Gives the Player C ... ^ at org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerImpl.fetchMoreTokens(ScannerImpl.java:420) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerImpl.checkToken(ScannerImpl.java:226) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl$ParseBlockMappingValue.produce(ParserImpl.java:586) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl.peekEvent(ParserImpl.java:158) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl.checkEvent(ParserImpl.java:143) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeNode(Composer.java:132) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeMappingNode(Composer.java:229) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeNode(Composer.java:155) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeMappingNode(Composer.java:229) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeNode(Composer.java:155) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeDocument(Composer.java:122) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.getSingleNode(Composer.java:105) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.BaseConstructor.getSingleData(BaseConstructor.java:120) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.loadFromReader(Yaml.java:450) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.load(Yaml.java:381) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile.<init>(PluginDescriptionFile.java:232) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.getPluginDescription(JavaPluginLoader.java:155) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-75a8885] ... 13 more
The answer is right infront of you, you used TAB in your plugin.yml, use 4 spaces instead. Code: Caused by: org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerException: while scanning for the next token found character '\t(TAB)' that cannot start any token. (Do not use \t(TAB) for indentation) in 'reader', line 9, column 5: description: Gives the Player C ... ^