JSONAPI is a plugin for Bukkit that allows you to access data and other information about your server and your players through a simple, yet secure, HTTP API. This allows you to make awesome websites, iPhone apps, and a way for your players to purchase goods online and automatically receive them in game.
However, this plugin won't do all of that by itself. It is simply an API that allows you to assemble the features in a way that makes sense for your needs.
Note I (@alecgorge) don't main this very much anymore. I accept pull requests and will fix issues with PRs or new versions of Minecraft, but development is more or less stalled. I haven't played Minecraft in years so I don't know when a new version comes out. Please open issues. I read every one but I don't have time to debug every configuration issue because every issue that isn't related to a new version of Minecraft has been answered in some way. Configurations have not changed in years.
Contributing/dev setup
This project relies on Java Comment Preprocessing to handle multiple versions of Minecraft.
The files in src/ will only compile for one version but anything that has a dependency on a specific version of Minecraft with have specialized imports like this:
//#ifdefined mcversion
//$import net.minecraft.server./*$mcversion$*/.EntityPlayer;
//$import net.minecraft.server./*$mcversion$*/.*;
//$import org.bukkit.craftbukkit./*$mcversion$*/.*;
//#else
import net.minecraft.server.v1_11_R1.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.server.v1_11_R1.*;
import org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_11_R1.*;
//#endif
The only proper way to build JSONAPI is with ./complete_build. You can edit ./jsonapi to add new versions and run ./jsonapi build > ./complete_build then chmod +x ./complete_build to update the build script..
If your build hangs for a bit on this part:
[WARNING] The POM for net.ess3:Essentials:jar:2.14-20140906.162642-94 is invalid, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug logging for more details
Downloading: http://dev.escapecraft.com/maven/org/bukkit/bukkit/1.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Downloading: http://repo.bukkit.org/content/groups/public/org/bukkit/bukkit/1.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Let it finish once (to download everything else) and then you can run ./complete_build -o to build offline and not get hung up on that. Unfortunately this is an upstream bug
with Vault and it would require a change in the Vault build to fix it.
Download
You can find the source code on GitHub at alecgorge/jsonapi. I accept pull requests!
JSONAPI is well documented
Read the documentation at mcjsonapi.com or on GitHub.