Solved Creating a new "Player" interface

Hi.

I'm creating a small personnalized plugin that check player bans, forum access code and a lot of other stuff.

I was willing to add new methods and variables to all my players, and started by creating a new interface, like this :

Code:

package net.raidstone.includes;
 
public interface Player extends org.bukkit.entity.Player {
    boolean checkBanned();
    void setDebug(boolean val);
    boolean isDebug();
    void debug(String message);
    org.bukkit.entity.Player getPlaye();
}

And also created a class implementing this interface.

Code:

package net.raidstone.includes;
 
import net.raidstone.RaidStone;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
 
public abstract class PlayerClass implements Player {
 
    public final String prefixdebug = ChatColor.DARK_GRAY + "[DBG] " +ChatColor.GRAY;
    Integer kills=0;
    Integer deaths=0;
    Integer mvps=0;
    Integer traps=0;
    Integer poIntegers=0;
    boolean debug=false;
 
    public Player PlayerClass(Player p)
    {
        return p;
    }
    @Override
    public void setDebug(boolean val) {
        this.debug=val;
    }
    @Override
    public boolean isDebug() {
        return this.debug;
    }
    @Override
    public void debug(String message) {
        if(this.debug)
        {
            this.sendMessage(prefixdebug+""+message);
        }
    }
}

...BUT, I'm experimenting troubles actually casting any Player or CommandSender type to this.

I tried this :

Code:

org.bukkit.entity.Player pl = (org.bukkit.entity.Player) sender;
Player p = (Player) pl;

from inside my main class, but it gave me a "cannot cast" error :

Code:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R4.entity.CraftPlayer cannot be cast to some.package.includes.Player

I KNOW I could use other ways, like creating a new personal MyPlayer type that extends Player type, or using hashmaps, or metadata, or whatever, but I would really like to know if this is doable, and what I'm missing.

 

Webbeh just create a class that holds that data, and link instances of that class using a Map.

 

As previously told, I do not want to use hashmaps, metadata, or a "MyPlayer" class.

 

Webbeh override the bukkitEntity field in EntityPlayer with an instance that extends CraftPlayer (in order to prevent CraftBukkit from breaking)

 

fireblast709 I'm not sure how to implement that exactly, you got an example ? I should have specified that I'm pretty newcomer in the java language and learned everything from coding a few smaller bukkit plugins.

From what I understood :
create a new class that extends org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R4.entity.CraftPlayer (although I use Bukkit.jar and not CraftBukkit.jar)

and override the bukkitEntity field ? How ?

 

Webbeh it is a field in net.minecraft.server.<version>.Entity. You will need reflection to replace it. And yes, for the CraftPlayer class you will need to use Bukkit, there is no pure Bukkit method to achieve what you are trying to achieve.

 

Okay, well, that's more or less what I wanted to know.

Also, since it's version-specific, I guess there is no way to have my code NOT be broken at every update... So I think I'm going to simply create a new MyPlayer class, which is the best of the other available options for me.

Thanks for the tip.