Developer API doesn't work about nicknamer HOT 13 CLOSED

Note: MyPlugin extends org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin but does not have its own constructor.

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It would be most helpful if you could just show me how I am meant to use your plugin's API to set a player's name above their heads.

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There are examples on how it's intended to use the simple nick API in the plugin's description.
You cannot create new instances of classes extending JavaPlugin, Bukkit does not allow that, that's why you get an exception.
You are also not supposed to create a new instance of the SimpleNickManager. If you want to use it, you can get its instance via NickNamerAPI.getNickManager().

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OK so I changed the lines

SimpleNickManager nameAboveHead = new SimpleNickManager(new MyPlugin());
nameAboveHead.setNick(uuid, rank + player.getName());

to the line

NickNamerAPI.getNickManager().setNick(uuid, rank + player.getName());

and I imported org.inventivetalent.nicknamer.api.NickNamerAPI

Now craftbukkit throws this error on a player's join event:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at io.github.theonlygusti.wizardserver.PlayerListener.onPlayerJoin(PlayerListener.java:77) ~[?:?]

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What's on line 77 of your PlayerListener class?

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NickNamerAPI.getNickManager().setNick(uuid, rank + player.getName());

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Probably the NickManager or player is null.
Make sure you have the NickNamer plugin installed and declared as a dependency in your plugin.yml.

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I don't want to have to do that, why isn't referencing the dependency via Maven enough?

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Because you are using the NickManager.

As I said, an example on how to use just the simple api, without the plugin is in the plugin's description.

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I'm sorry for being a pain, but I literally have no idea how to use the API. I just added this to my PlayerListener class:

@EventHandler
public void on(NickDisguiseEvent event) {
  event.setNick("inventivetalent");
}

it does nothing, and it is literally all I can see in the example you keep referencing.

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Did you register your events properly? Does the event get called at all?

If you're still trying to do it without NickNamer installed, I think you need to register it using APIManager. The instructions should be somewhere in the description.

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There are no instructions, and no I don't think that the method is getting called.

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Well, I must have removed them at some point. You can take a look at the PacketListenerAPI example, just add the dependencies (plugin.yml, pom.xml) and register NickNamerAPI.class

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