1.7/1.8 Plugin Support

Hello all,
this is a problem I assume lots of plugin developers will be having soon, if not already. I have created a plugin using the Bukkit 1.8.8 API, and I have had requests to turn it into a 1.7 plugin. I am trying to avoid two plugins, as it makes it messier to deal with and I'd have to re-do most of my auto-updating code, but cannot find any tutorial or information on how to make a 1.8 plugin 1.7 compatible. One thing that makes this hard is that I am using packets to send particles to the player for 1.8. Is there a way to have both 1.7 and 1.8 support in one plugin?

Thanks,
Ben

 

@AngryCupcake274

The way that I've seen to do this is with modular loading, done with Maven. I'm not sure how it works under the hood, but you can see examples of it in TagAPI and dhutils.

Also, just use protocollib.

 

Do you have any page about modular loading anywhere? I don't want code handouts, but I'd love to read a tutorial over it. Also, I'm trying to stay away from other APIs, as I have had bad experiences with them in the past.

 

You can just make a 1.8.* and 1.7.* plugin. (What I mean is release two different versions)

 

@boomboompower I said in my first post that I was trying to avoid 2 different plugins.

 

So basically what you want it to have the same features in Bukkit 1.8 and Bukkit 1.7
If so this is not possible as the versions of minecraft are both different.

 

@boomboompower I would put different plugin classes (for 1.7 and 1.8) in the same plugin jar, but only have one of them activate if the user has a certain version on MC server.

 

Ah, you should just use protocollib, even though you don't like api's it will probably help you.

 

@boomboompower Let's say I wasn't just needing ProtocolLib; I would like a way to do this that would work for any plugin. Like mythbusterma said above, do you have any Maven tutorials for this?

 

https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-multiple-modules.html
?

 

@boomboompower That's a great tutorial, but it's not for Bukkit. Let me see if I can find something real quick....

 

@AngryCupcake274 https://bukkit.org/threads/support-multiple-minecraft-versions-with-abstraction-maven.115810/

 

@AngryCupcake274

Just look over the link Teej posted and look at the repository for dhutils and TagAPI.

 

@mythbusterma @teej107
Yea, I'll be looking over it for a while I assume....should I look at this too? http://wiki.bukkit.org/Plugin_Tutorial (the part over Maven). I am a noob to Maven.

 

@AngryCupcake274

That'd be best.

 

@mythbusterma OK then, I'll be looking over these, and report back with how I do.