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API to determine plugin providing a certain class

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Description

It would be useful for Velocity to provide a method that allows determining which plugin is providing a certain class. This is helpful especially in debugging classpath conflicts.

The Bukkit API provides this functionality with JavaPlugin.getProvidingPlugin, though I of course trust the Velocity API to do better than a static method on JavaPlugin. A new method in PluginManager would do well for the Velocity API.

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Research direction

Start by reading the existing PluginManager API and comparing the requested behavior with Bukkit's JavaPlugin.getProvidingPlugin reference. The change is complete when Velocity exposes a PluginManager method that determines which plugin provides a specified class, including behavior useful for diagnosing classpath conflicts.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
api, backend-api-design
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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