A proper hook for your plugin

I have created an API for my plugin EpicQuest, but whenever I use it in another plugin, it just gives me the nullPointerException.
This also happens if it's just a void method.

Plugin code:

Code:

	public static randy.eq.eqAPI EpicQuest;

public void onPlayerInteractEntity(PlayerInteractEntityEvent event){
        if(NPCManager.isNPC(event.getRightClicked())){
            Player player = event.getPlayer();
            String newplayer = player.toString().replace("CraftPlayer{name=", "").replace("}", "");
            String npcname = event.getRightClicked().toString().replace("CraftPlayer{name=", "").replace("}", "");
            npcname = ChatColor.stripColor(npcname);
            //If NPC has a specific quest
            if(npcq.qspecific.containsKey(npcname)){
                player.sendMessage(EpicQuest.getCurrentQuestList(newplayer));
            }
      }
}

EpicQuest code (this is part of the eqAPI class):

Code:

public String getCurrentQuestList(String player){
        String list = eq.questcurrent.get(player+".questlist").toString();
        return list;
    }

I am sure it's not empty.
I gave myself a few quests before trying it and checked that with another command I made in EpicQuest to check the quest list.

 

Do you ever load the the object?
So EpicQuest = something;
Otherwise the object will just be empty... (null)

 

First I import the class, then I typed the other code with EpicQuest...

As I said, I'm fairly new to making API's and all, so I don't know how else I would do it

 

You need to actually instantiate the variable. To do that with a plugin you would do

Code:

EpicQuest quest=(EpicQuest) getServer().getPluginManager().getPlugin("EpicQuest");

 

You have to make whatever hooks into EpicQuest 'depend' on it. You do this in the plugin/yml of the plugin to hookinto epic quest.

PHP:

depend: [EpicQuest]

 

Gotcha, thanks!

 

No problem