KBukkit

Kotlin library for Bukkit and Spigot

Kotlin is a programming language made by JetBrains, the same people who make IntelliJ IDEA.
It compiles into Java, which means that you can interact with the Bukkit and Spigot APIs with it.
Kotlin has tons of features that Java doesn’t have, so I made a neat library that uses some of the features
that Kotlin has to offer.

Also, I’ve spent quite a bit of time to make this library, so leaving a would mean a ton!

Features

• ChatColor addition
  • In Java, if you do ChatColor.BOLD + ChatColor.BLUE, you get an error.
    This is because the + operator cannot be put on two enum constants.
  • Kotlin solves this with operator functions and extension functions.
    Basically, you can add extension functions to the ChatColor class, and if you
    add an operator function, then you can use that operator on that class.
  • This means that with KBukkit, you can legally do ChatColor.BOLD + ChatColor.BLUE, and it will return §l§9
• Custom Player Classes
  • Are you tired of tons of maps of UUIDs to data types? With KBukkit,
    you can create custom player classes. These classes take advantage of
    Kotlin’s delegation pattern. Basically, you pass a player as an
    argument to a constructor, and the class will implement the Player interface,
    mapping all required functions to the argument passed into the constructor.
    I know that sounds complicated, but once you get the hang of it, it’s super awesome and
    saves a lot of time.
• Custom Config Handler
  • Having more than one config is annoying. With Kotlin’s operator functions
    that I mentioned earlier, configs get a lot easier. With KBukkit’s KConfig class,
    you can simply do config["foo", Bar::class] to get an element foo from the config that is type Bar.
• Easy, more organized access to the Bukkit.X() methods
  • Nearly all commonly used methods have been sorted into separate classes
    (ie Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers() is now Players.online)
• Scheduler functions are much easier
  • Scheduler-related methods are global functions, so running something asynchronously is now as easy
    as runAsync { /* code here */ }
• Chat Component Factory
  • A really cool feature that allows the creation of complex chat components
    extremely easily. Takes inspiration from TornadoFX.

Javadoc

Javadoc is available here. I’m not really digging the default
KDoc website layout, so I might mess with the CSS a bit when I get a chance.

Donate

I’d really appreciate any donations, even anything as small as a pack of ramen!