JAR Autocopy.md

Motivation

Isn't it annoying to always have to copy your exported plugins into the plugins folder of your testing server?

Well, no more, because here's how to let Maven do the work:

Guide

First of all, make sure that you are using Maven for your project. If you do use Maven, add this plugin to your pom.xml file:

            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.8</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>copy</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <configuration>
                            <target>
                                <echo>Copying plugin file to:</echo>
                                <echo>${project.basedir}</echo>
                                <copy todir="${project.basedir}/server/plugins" overwrite="true" flatten="true">
                                    <fileset dir="${project.basedir}/target" includes="${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar" >
                                        <include name="*.jar" />
                                    </fileset>
                                </copy>
                            </target>
                        </configuration>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>run</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

See that <copy...> bracket? todir describes the directory where Maven should copy the plugin file. ${project.basedir} will be filled in by maven automatically, it's just the root directory of your project, where the pom.xml file is located. The dir parameter in the <fileset> bracket describes the directory where Maven should copy the file from.

You have to place it in the brackets of your pom.xml file. These are in the brackets.

If you are already running your Spigot server in intelliJ and have set it up using this guide, this should work OOB (out of the box)

Appendix

This is an example pom.xml file that enables Auto-Copy: Click here to open on GitHub Gist