commodore

commodore is a utility for using Minecraft's 1.13 brigadier library in Bukkit plugins. It allows you to easily register command completion data for your plugin's commands.

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Example

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Approaches to registering completion data

commodore supports:

• Registering completions using brigadier's LiteralCommandNode builder API
• Registering completions using commodore's .commodore file format

For example, implementing completions for Minecraft's /time command:

Using brigadier's LiteralCommandNode builder API

LiteralCommandNode<?> timeCommand = LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("time")
        .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("set")
                .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("day"))
                .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("noon"))
                .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("night"))
                .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("midnight"))
                .then(RequiredArgumentBuilder.argument("time", IntegerArgumentType.integer())))
        .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("add")
                .then(RequiredArgumentBuilder.argument("time", IntegerArgumentType.integer())))
        .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("query")
                .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("daytime"))
                .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("gametime"))
                .then(LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("day"))
        ).build();

commodore.register(bukkitCommand, timeCommand);

Using commodore's .commodore file format

time {
  set {
    day;
    noon;
    night;
    midnight;
    time brigadier:integer;
  }
  add {
    time brigadier:integer;
  }
  query {
    daytime;
    gametime;
    day;
  }
}

// assuming the file above is stored as "time.commodore" in the plugin jar
LiteralCommandNode<?> timeCommand = CommodoreFileFormat.parse(plugin.getResource("time.commodore"));
commodore.register(bukkitCommand, timeCommand);

Using the .commodore file format is recommended. In my opinion it is much easier to read/understand/update than the Node Builder API provided by brigadier.

Another example of a .commodore file can be found here, for the LuckPerms plugin commands. The corresponding code used to register the completions is here.

Usage

This guide assumes your plugin is built using Maven or Gradle though.

1) Configure your build script to shade commodore into your plugin jar

Maven

You need to add (or merge) the following sections into your pom.xml file.

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.2.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>shade</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <artifactSet>
                            <includes>
                                <include>me.lucko:commodore</include>
                            </includes>
                        </artifactSet>
                        <relocations>
                            <relocation>
                                <pattern>me.lucko.commodore</pattern>
                                <!-- vvv Replace with the package of your plugin vvv -->
                                <shadedPattern>com.yourdomain.yourplugin.commodore</shadedPattern>
                            </relocation>
                        </relocations>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>me.lucko</groupId>
        <artifactId>commodore</artifactId>
        <!-- vvv Replace with the latest commodore version vvv -->
        <version>{version}</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>minecraft-repo</id>
        <url>https://libraries.minecraft.net/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Gradle

You need to add (or merge) the following sections into your build.gradle file.

plugins {
  id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '6.1.0'
}

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
  maven { url 'https://libraries.minecraft.net/' }
}

dependencies {
  /* vvv Replace with the latest commodore version vvv */
  implementation 'me.lucko:commodore:{version}'
}

shadowJar {
  dependencies {
    exclude(dependency('com.mojang:brigadier'))
  }
  
  /* vvv Replace with the package of your plugin vvv */
  relocate 'me.lucko.commodore', 'com.yourdomain.yourplugin.commodore'
}

Replace {version} with the latest version:

2) Setup commodore in your plugin

package me.lucko.example;

import com.mojang.brigadier.arguments.BoolArgumentType;
import com.mojang.brigadier.arguments.StringArgumentType;
import com.mojang.brigadier.builder.LiteralArgumentBuilder;
import com.mojang.brigadier.builder.RequiredArgumentBuilder;

import me.lucko.commodore.Commodore;
import me.lucko.commodore.CommodoreProvider;

import org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;

public class TestPlugin extends JavaPlugin {

    @Override
    public void onEnable() {

        // register your command executor as normal.
        PluginCommand command = getCommand("mycommand");
        command.setExecutor(new MyCommandExecutor());

        // check if brigadier is supported
        if (CommodoreProvider.isSupported()) {
            
            // get a commodore instance
            Commodore commodore = CommodoreProvider.getCommodore(this);

            // register your completions.
            registerCompletions(commodore, command);
        }
    }
    
    // You will need to put this method inside another class to prevent classloading
    // errors when your plugin loads on pre 1.13 versions.
    private static void registerCompletions(Commodore commodore, PluginCommand command) {
        commodore.register(command, LiteralArgumentBuilder.literal("mycommand")
                .then(RequiredArgumentBuilder.argument("some-argument", StringArgumentType.string()))
                .then(RequiredArgumentBuilder.argument("some-other-argument", BoolArgumentType.bool()))
        );
    }
}

The com.mojang.brigadier packages will be automatically imported into your classpath when you add the commodore dependency, but they should not be shaded into your plugins jar file.