fixed the placeholder api problem

* Allow random server id

* Assign and save random server id

* Add logging for server id

* Remove unused

* Update notes

* updated readme

* fixed bug from last update

* updated config

* fixed typo of in one of the authors name

Co-authored-by: mohammed jasem alaajel <34905970+ham1255@users.noreply.github.com>

README.md

@@ -21,7 +21,14 @@ RedisBungee is distributed as a [maven](https://maven.apache.org) project. To co
     cd RedisBungee
     mvnw clean install
 
+And use it in your pom file.
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.imaginarycode.minecraft</groupId>
+      <artifactId>RedisBungee</artifactId>
+      <version>0.6.3</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
 
 ## Javadocs
 Hosted on limework website. Version 0.6.0 (note: any version 0.6.* will not have API changes.)

pom.xml

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 
     <groupId>com.imaginarycode.minecraft</groupId>
     <artifactId>RedisBungee</artifactId>
-    <version>0.6.2</version>
+    <version>0.6.3</version>
+
 
     <repositories>
         <repository>

src/main/java/com/imaginarycode/minecraft/redisbungee/RedisBungee.java

@@ -415,13 +415,8 @@ public final class RedisBungee extends Plugin {
         final int redisPort = configuration.getInt("redis-port", 6379);
         final boolean useSSL = configuration.getBoolean("useSSL");
         String redisPassword = configuration.getString("redis-password");
-        String serverId;
+        String serverId = configuration.getString("server-id");
         final String randomUUID = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
-        if (configuration.getBoolean("use-random-id-string", false)) {
-            serverId = configuration.getString("server-id") + "-" + randomUUID;
-        } else {
-            serverId = configuration.getString("server-id");
-        }
 
         if (redisPassword != null && (redisPassword.isEmpty() || redisPassword.equals("none"))) {
             redisPassword = null;
@@ -429,7 +424,20 @@ public final class RedisBungee extends Plugin {
 
         // Configuration sanity checks.
         if (serverId == null || serverId.isEmpty()) {
-            throw new RuntimeException("server-id is not specified in the configuration or is empty");
+            /*
+            *  this check causes the config comments to disappear somehow
+            *  I think due snake yaml limitations so as todo: write our own yaml parser?
+            */
+            String genId = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
+            getLogger().info("Generated server id " + genId + " and saving it to config.");
+            configuration.set("server-id", genId);
+            ConfigurationProvider.getProvider(YamlConfiguration.class).save(configuration, new File(getDataFolder(), "config.yml"));
+        } else {
+            getLogger().info("Loaded server id " + serverId + '.');
+        }
+
+        if (configuration.getBoolean("use-random-id-string", false)) {
+            serverId = configuration.getString("server-id") + "-" + randomUUID;
         }
 
         if (redisServer != null && !redisServer.isEmpty()) {

src/main/java/com/imaginarycode/minecraft/redisbungee/RedisBungeeListener.java

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ public class RedisBungeeListener implements Listener {
 
     @EventHandler
     public void onPluginMessage(final PluginMessageEvent event) {
-        if ((event.getTag().equals("legacy:RedisBungee") || event.getTag().equals("RedisBungee")) && event.getSender() instanceof Server) {
+        if ((event.getTag().equals("legacy:redisbungee") || event.getTag().equals("RedisBungee")) && event.getSender() instanceof Server) {
             final String currentChannel = event.getTag();
             final byte[] data = Arrays.copyOf(event.getData(), event.getData().length);
             plugin.getProxy().getScheduler().runAsync(plugin, new Runnable() {

src/main/resources/example_config.yml

@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@ max-redis-connections: 8
 # you must disable this if redis version is under 6 you must disable this or connection wont work!!!
 useSSL: false
 
-
-# An identifier for this BungeeCord instance.
-server-id: test1
-# Should use random string? if enabled proxy id will be like this "test1-66cd2aeb-91f3-43a7-a106-e0307b098652"
+# An identifier for this BungeeCord instance. Will randomly generate if leaving it blank.
+server-id: "test1"
+# Should use random string? if this  is enabled the proxy id will be like this if server-id is test1: "test1-66cd2aeb-91f3-43a7-a106-e0307b098652"
+# or if id is limework-bungee it will be "limework-bungee-66cd2aeb-91f3-43a7-a106-e0307b098652"
 # this great for servers who run replicas in Kubernetes or any auto deploying replica service
+# and used for if proxy died in a kubernetes network and deleted then new proxy setup itself.
 use-random-id-string: false
 
 # Whether or not RedisBungee should install its version of regular BungeeCord commands.

src/main/resources/plugin.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name: ${project.name}
 main: com.imaginarycode.minecraft.redisbungee.RedisBungee
 version: ${project.version}
-author: Chunker and Govindas limework
+author: Chunkr and Govindas limework
 authors:
   - chunkr
   - Govindas Limework