Solved Selling custom items with essentials

Is there any way to tie into Essential's API to allow selling custom items via the sign shop interface?

I was thinking something like registering an item name that essentials would know to ask my plugin to create when purchased.

I know I can tie into essentials to deduct money, but I was hoping to piggyback on its sign functionality as well.

If this is not possible, then I'm wondering if I should tie into Essentials or Vault. They both seem kind of interchangeable, and I know essentials will pass through to vault, but I'm not sure at this point which plugin is used more, and I would prefer not to code for both since this will be a soft dependency.

Thanks very much!

Bumpity bump ... I'm thinking this isn't possible. I did do a good bit of searching before posting this.

It seems like it will be a pain to implement my own sign handling that doesn't interfere with Essentials, so it'd be really nice if Essentials let you extend the functionality somehow. I'm hesitant to try and dig into the code and try to hack it up somehow

I submitted a feature request to Essentials for this.. if it's something you'd be interested in having for your own plugins, please go vote on it

https://essentials3.atlassian.net/browse/ESS-5078

Otherwise it doesn't seem like this is possible, save perhaps with some hacky overriding of some of the internal Essentials classes, which doesn't seem like a good idea at all

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Mmmmmk, well I'm guessing the Essentials team will not really approve of this, but perhaps that will motivate them to add an API

Here's what I ended up doing, which works, but is completely hacky and I don't recommend following this path.

in my onEnable, I check for essentials. If it's there, I use reflection to override the ItemDB with my own.

Code:java

 
final Spells me = this;
Bukkit.getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(plugin, new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
  Object essentials = me.plugin.getServer().getPluginManager().getPlugin("Essentials");
  if (essentials != null) {
    Class<?> essentialsClass = essentials.getClass();
    Field itemDbField = essentialsClass.getDeclaredField("itemDb");
    itemDbField.setAccessible(true);
    itemDbField.set(essentials, new MagicItemDb(me, essentials));
    log.info("Essentials found, hooked up custom item handler");
  }
} catch (Throwable ex) {
  ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}, 5);

My MagicItemDb class, which checks an item id string to see if it's a wand, if not I pass up to the default functionality.

Code:java

 
package com.elmakers.mine.bukkit.essentials;
 
import net.ess3.api.IEssentials;
 
import org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack;
 
import com.earth2me.essentials.ItemDb;
import com.elmakers.mine.bukkit.plugins.magic.Spells;
import com.elmakers.mine.bukkit.plugins.magic.Wand;
 
public class MagicItemDb extends ItemDb {
 
private final Spells spells;
 
public MagicItemDb(final Spells spells, final Object ess) {
  super((IEssentials)ess);
  this.spells = spells;
}
 
@Override
public ItemStack get(final String id) throws Exception
{
  if (id.startsWith("wand:")) {
    id.replace("wand:", "");
    Wand wand = Wand.createWand(spells, id.trim());
    if (wand != null) {
      return wand.getItem();
    }
  }
 
  return super.get(id);
 }
}
 

Marking this as solved, though I still hope there's a better way, or will be in the future.