PlaceholderAPI as the condition

[ArtNRG]

Add PlaceholderAPI as the condition. https://pastebin.com/raw/MNRbJcYj - correct look of examples with all spaces.

PlaceholderAPI_example: %simpleclans_in_clan%: true: Message: Join any clan Name: join_clan DisplayName: Clan member Reward: Money: 5

PlaceholderAPI_example2: %mypet_level%: 30: Message: Your pet reached 30 level Name: pet_master DisplayName: Pet master Reward: Money: 5

PlaceholderAPI_example3: %leaderheads_score_elytra_weekly_1%: true: Message: You are the best weekly glider! Name: best_glider DisplayName: Best glider Reward: Money: 5

[supertassu]

This can be quite hard/resource expensive as PAPI does not have an event when a placeholder changes.

[PyvesB]

Interesting! Maybe we should submit a feature request to PlaceholderAPI to add support for events? Otherwise we would have to do polling in a clever way.

[supertassu]

Could be possible however hard as some things do not fire an event when changing (bungee total for example).

[Phoetrix]

Yes it would be nice! A few months ago, I was thinking about a way to do a system like this with a listener that would be called when a placeholder change. But as supertassu say, it would be hard to do.

Has anyone made the suggestion to the creator of papi ?

[Phoetrix]

I thought about it and I have an idea of how PAPI work. When PAPI catch a placeholder I think he just do a replace of the placeholder by a data returned by a function created by a developper of plugin who use the API of placeholder.

So it would be probably impossible for the creator of PAPI to do an event when a placeholder change. We must to do this ourself directly in AdvancedAchievements.

I have a simple idea to do that. We can play with two listeners, events PlayerJoinEvent and PlayerQuitEvent. When one of the event is fired, we call a function "CheckPlaceholderData(Player player)". In this function, we verify all placeholders registered by the user in the config of AdvancedAchievements. If the registered placeholder return a legit value for AdvancedAchievements, we write the returned data for the player in the database. Then to don't have problems with performances we just need to recall this function every X seconds/minutes for all connected players and update each datas with the same logic of others achievements. It would be impossible to give an achievement to a player directly like others achievements but it should work after the delay that we will define.

[PyvesB]

I'm no PlaceholderAPI expert, so I'll trust you regarding the impossibility for it to support events.

I don't think we even have to rely on the PlayerJoin and PlayerQuit events. As you suggested, we just have to call a function every X seconds/minutes which loops through all connected players. The AchieveDistanceRunnable and AchievePlayTimeRunnable classes do basically the same thing, so it could be a good starting point if you want to dig into this some more. 😉