Gathering plugin instance

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Hi,
I’m trying to create my first sponge plugin. I’ve encountered a problem that I can’t fully understand. I want to make async task, doing it just like in scheduler docs, but plugin refuses to work.
Here is my part of code I use to create task:

    private final Task.Builder taskBuilder = Sponge.getScheduler().createTaskBuilder();

    private Task makeTask() {
        return taskBuilder
                .execute(new ScheduledWeatherStateUpdateHandler(this))
                .async()
                .intervalTicks(interval)
                .name("RealWeatherChecker")
                .submit((Plugin)this);
    }

My IDE tells me that Casting ‘this’ to ‘Plugin’ is redundant, but when I try to run plugin event with that cast, it fails with stacktrace

[14:32:21 ERROR] [Sponge]: Could not pass GameStartedServerEvent$Impl to Plugin{id=realweather, name=RH-RealWeather, version=1.1, authors=[Micha▒ "Bopke" Kubik], source=mods\RealWeather-1.1.jar}
java.lang.ClassCastException: ovh.rehost.realWeatherSponge.RealWeather cannot be cast to org.spongepowered.api.plugin.Plugin
        at ovh.rehost.realWeatherSponge.RealWeather.makeTask(RealWeather.java:79) ~[RealWeather.class:?]
        at ovh.rehost.realWeatherSponge.RealWeather.onServerStart(RealWeather.java:71) ~[RealWeather.class:?]
        at org.spongepowered.common.event.listener.GameStartedServerEventListener_RealWeather_onServerStart3.handle(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]

When I run the plugin without that cast, it crashes with stacktrace:

[14:50:14 ERROR] [Sponge]: The Scheduler tried to run the task RealWeatherChecker owned by Plugin{id=realweather, name=RH-RealWeather, version=1.1, authors=[Micha▒ "Bopke" Kubik], source=mods\RealWeather-1.1.jar}, but an error occured.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Provided object is not a plugin instance
        at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:122) ~[minecraft_server.1.12.2.jar:?]
        at org.spongepowered.common.scheduler.SpongeScheduler.checkPluginInstance(SpongeScheduler.java:155) ~[SpongeScheduler.class:1.12.2-7.1.0-BETA-59]

What should I do to make it work properly? I’ve tried to take a look at working plugins code and tasks were created the same way…

If you want to take a look, here is full code of my plugin main class package ovh.rehost.realWeatherSponge;import com.google.common.reflect.TypeTo - Pastebin.com

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You need to either pass in the PluginContainer of your plugin, or the instance of your plugin’s main class.
Since the class RealWeather is you main class (the one with @Plugin), there shouldn’t be an issue passing this to the submit method. I notice that you’re reusing the taskBuilder variable. Typically a builder is only used once, so that could be the cause of your issue. Simply replacing return taskBuilder... with return Sponge.getScheduler().createTaskBuilder()... should be fine.

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3

This solved my problem, thanks :slight_smile:

4

You don’t need that either. Task.builder() works too. Why do people use the Scheduler directly?

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The actual reason for your problem is that Plugin is an annotation, not something your plugin extends. It is a completely different thing from Plugin in Bukkit. If you need to cast at any point, you should use the name of the class that you annotated, not Plugin directly.