helper

A collection of utilities and extended APIs to support the rapid and easy development of Bukkit plugins.

Modules

helper

: The main helper project

helper-sql

: Provides SQL datasources using HikariCP.

helper-redis

: Provides Redis clients and implements the helper Messaging system using Jedis.

helper-mongo

: Provides MongoDB datasources.

helper-lilypad

: Implements the helper Messaging system using LilyPad.

helper-profiles

: Provides a cached lookup service for player profiles.

helper-js

: JavaScript plugins using Nashorn.

Feature Overview

• Events

  - functional event handling and flexible listener registration

• Scheduler

  - easy access to the Bukkit scheduler

• Promise

  - a chain of operations (Futures) executing between both sync and async threads

• Metadata

  - metadata with generic types, automatically expiring values and more

• Messenger

  - message channel abstraction

• Commands

  - create commands using the builder pattern

• Scoreboard

  - asynchronous scoreboard using ProtocolLib

• GUI

  - lightweight by highly adaptable and flexible menu abstraction

• Menu Scheming

  - easily design menu layouts without having to worry about slot ids

• Random

  - make random selections from collections of weighted elements

• Bucket

  - sets of distributed and uniformly partitioned elements

• Profiles

  - a lookup repository and cache for player uuid & name profiles

• Plugin Annotations

  - automatically create plugin.yml files for your projects using annotations

• Maven Annotations

  - download & install maven dependencies at runtime

• Terminables

  - a family of interfaces to help easily manipulate objects which can be unregistered, stopped, or gracefully halted

• Serialization

  - immutable and GSON compatible alternatives for common Bukkit objects

• Bungee Messaging

  - wrapper for BungeeCord's plugin messaging API

• JavaScript Plugins

  - javascript plugins using helper-js and Nashorn

... and much more!

• How to add helper to your project
• Standalone plugin download

Documentation

Documentation and a more detailed feature overview can be found on the wiki, here: https://github.com/lucko/helper/wiki