Sending FancyMessage's

[ThatCurlyFry]

I was using this library in one of my plugins, and its been working, but for some reason, it just stopped working and is giving me this error:
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: playerConnection
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Class.java:2070)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at net.amoebaman.util.Reflection.getField(Reflection.java:147)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at mkremins.fanciful.FancyMessage.send(FancyMessage.java:616)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at mkremins.fanciful.FancyMessage.send(FancyMessage.java:605)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at me.thatcurlyfry.showitem.Main.onChat(Main.java:159)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.java:300)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at co.aikar.timings.TimedEventExecutor.execute(TimedEventExecutor.java:74)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.java:62)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.fireEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:501)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:483)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.PlayerConnection.chat(PlayerConnection.java:1111)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:1026)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.PacketPlayInChat$1.run(PacketPlayInChat.java:39)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
02.05 17:23:21 [Server] WARN at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

PS: line 159 in my main class is just fancymessage.send(player)

[mkremins]

What server software are you using? It looks like the Player instance doesn't contain a playerConnection field, which is causing Fanciful's reflection hackery to fail.

[ThatCurlyFry]

I'm using PaperSpigot 1.8.8

[mkremins]

It looks like Spigot's implementation of the Bukkit Player interface has diverged enough from the CraftBukkit implementation against which Fanciful was originally written that FancyMessage.send won't work on Spigot servers. I'd recommend using the Chat Component API instead of Fanciful if you're writing plugins for Spigot servers – the API is pretty similar to Fanciful's and it should be better supported.