Accessing main class from event listener

Is the best was to do this to add, say in the constructer, a reference to your main class and have it set a variable in the listener class So you'd do

Code:

getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(new EventListener(this), this);

With EventListener looking like

Code:

package com.cowboys.game
 
import org.bukkit.event.Listener;
 
public class EventListener implements Listener {
    Main main;
    EventListener(Main m)
    {
        main = m;
    }
}

 

Yeah that's about the best way you'd pass an instance of a class.

What's wrong with it?

 

I remember hearing people talk about using a Static getMain() type of function, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work.

 

In my main class I just declare the plugin as static and equal to this. Then in other classes I declare plugin as equal to MainClassName.plugin.

Main class:

Code:

public static yourpluginname plugin = this;

Other class:

Code:

private yourpluginname plugin = MainClassName.plugin;