Glowman554/starlight

Easy plugin loading in java!

Starlight

Plugin loading made easy.

What is possible?

Starlight can load plugins in the jar format. Those plugins can access every class from the parrent project which loads those plugins. Plugins need to specify a main class and a name in a plugin.json file. This file needs to be placed in the root of the jar. The plugin.json file can contain a version but doesen't need to include it.

Examples

Plugin example:

package gq.glowman554.plugin;

import gq.glowman554.starlight.annotations.StarlightEntry;
import gq.glowman554.starlight.data.PluginData;
import gq.glowman554.test.Test;

public class Entry
{
    @StarlightEntry(data = true)
    public void entry(PluginData data)
    {
        System.out.println("I am " + data.toString());
    }
}

Loader example:

package gq.glowman554.test;

import gq.glowman554.reflex.Reflex;
import gq.glowman554.starlight.Starlight;
import gq.glowman554.starlight.StarlightException;

public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws StarlightException
    {
        Reflex.setDebug(true);
        Starlight.setDebug(true);
        
        Starlight s = new Starlight("plugins");
        s.load();
    }
}

A full example can be found in this repository in the starlight-loader and starlight-plugin folders.