net.minecore

Class Metrics

java.lang.Object

net.minecore.Metrics

public class Metrics
extends java.lang.Object

The metrics class obtains data about a plugin and submits statistics about it to the metrics backend.

Public methods provided by this class:

Graph createGraph(String name);
void addCustomData(BukkitMetrics.Plotter plotter);
void start();


Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	Metrics.Graph Represents a custom graph on the website
static class	Metrics.Plotter Interface used to collect custom data for a plugin

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Metrics(org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin plugin)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addCustomData(Metrics.Plotter plotter) Adds a custom data plotter to the default graph
void	addGraph(Metrics.Graph graph) Add a Graph object to BukkitMetrics that represents data for the plugin that should be sent to the backend
Metrics.Graph	createGraph(java.lang.String name) Construct and create a Graph that can be used to separate specific plotters to their own graphs on the metrics website.
void	disable() Disables metrics for the server by setting "opt-out" to true in the config file and canceling the metrics task.
void	enable() Enables metrics for the server by setting "opt-out" to false in the config file and starting the metrics task.
java.io.File	getConfigFile() Gets the File object of the config file that should be used to store data such as the GUID and opt-out status
boolean	isOptOut() Has the server owner denied plugin metrics?
boolean	start() Start measuring statistics.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Metrics

public Metrics(org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin plugin)
        throws java.io.IOException

Throws:

java.io.IOException

Method Detail

createGraph

public Metrics.Graph createGraph(java.lang.String name)

Construct and create a Graph that can be used to separate specific plotters to their own graphs on the metrics website. Plotters can be added to the graph object returned.

Parameters:

name - The name of the graph

Returns:

Graph object created. Will never return NULL under normal circumstances unless bad parameters are given

addGraph

public void addGraph(Metrics.Graph graph)

Add a Graph object to BukkitMetrics that represents data for the plugin that should be sent to the backend

Parameters:

graph - The name of the graph

addCustomData

public void addCustomData(Metrics.Plotter plotter)

Adds a custom data plotter to the default graph

Parameters:

plotter - The plotter to use to plot custom data

start

public boolean start()

Start measuring statistics. This will immediately create an async repeating task as the plugin and send the initial data to the metrics backend, and then after that it will post in increments of PING_INTERVAL * 1200 ticks.

Returns:

True if statistics measuring is running, otherwise false.

isOptOut

public boolean isOptOut()

Has the server owner denied plugin metrics?

Returns:

true if metrics should be opted out of it

enable

public void enable()
            throws java.io.IOException

Enables metrics for the server by setting "opt-out" to false in the config file and starting the metrics task.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

disable

public void disable()
             throws java.io.IOException

Disables metrics for the server by setting "opt-out" to true in the config file and canceling the metrics task.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

getConfigFile

public java.io.File getConfigFile()

Gets the File object of the config file that should be used to store data such as the GUID and opt-out status

Returns:

the File object for the config file