SafeChatX

A plugin to keep your chat safe.

SafeChat Commands

SafeChat provides some commands in-game that will allow to interact with the configurations or the checks. The commands that are currently available are listed here:

[Reload Command]
Syntax: /safechat reload
Permission: safechat.commands.reload
Description:
This command is used to reload data from configurations and plugin. You can use this command to start using new values after you have modified any of the configs from SafeChat.

[Help Command]
Syntax: /safechat help
Permission: none?
Description: Show all available commands.

[Flags Command]
Syntax: /safechat (flag-name) <player-name>
Permission: safechat.commands.flags
Description: This command is used to either view all the flags of a player, or to view a specific flag of a player. The first mode, where only the player name is specified, will show you all the flags that a player currently has. The second mode will first specify the flag name and then the player name, this will display the amount of that flag.

SafeChat configurations

SafeChat uses TOML to make the plugin configurable. TOML is an easy-to-use syntax which I recently adopted over YAML, you can read more about it here https://toml.io/en/. SafeChat currently has 5 configurations, I have decided to split the settings of SafeChat into multiple configurations to not create a huge single config and make editing more easy for the user!

address-whitelist.toml

A short configuration where you will be able to define the allowed addresses and domains into your plugin. All the other addresses and domains that are not whitelisted will automatically be considered as dangerous by SafeChat.

database-settings.toml

This configuration makes you input values for the usage of the database. Make sure your data is correct if you are having troubles connecting to one of your databases.

check-settings.toml

A configuration for check-specific settings. From this configuration you will be able to enable checks, customize punishments levels, and other.

words-blacklist.toml

A list of words that is considered forbidden on the server.

messages.toml

The messages that will be used by each specific check upon fail.

SafeChat Database

A database is required for SafeChat to work!
SafeChat currently supports the following databases:

1. MySQL
2. MariaDB
3. PostgreSQL
4. Microsoft SQLServer
5. HyperSQL
6. CockroachDB
7. H2
8. IBM DB2

To work properly the "database-settings.toml" config must contain correct access data.

SafeChat API

This plugin provides a simple API that allows users to program their own checks and make SafeChat register them at runtime! All checks define their own logic and behaviour using the passed data from the chat events. The required data from the chat event is wrapped into a "ChatData" object which contains the player, and the message objects.
All checks are based on the "Check" interface. The check interface is a simple structure that allows you to define your own chat control structure. In this API you will find most of the necessary classes and abstractions inside the "studio.thevipershow.safechat.api" package.

You can add the SafeChat repository this way if you're using Maven:

Step 1: Add the JitPack repository to your maven project repositories

<repository>
    <id>jitpack.io</id>
    <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>

Step 2: add SafeChatX as provided dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.TheViperShow</groupId>
    <artifactId>SafeChatX</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <scope>provided</scope> <!-- IMPORTANT SETTING -->
</dependency>

To create a proper check, you must implement the check interface and define all the following methods respecting the scope:

(boolean) Check#check(ChatData)

This method will define the logic of your own check. When a check should fail, you should make it return true, otherwise it should return false. When a check returns true several other things will be done by SafeChat such as event cancelling and (not always) punishments and warnings.

(boolean) Check#hasWarningEnabled()

This specifies if your check, when failed, should provide a warning message to the user. The warning message is defined through another method in the check interface.

(List) Check#getWarningMessages()

This is the list of messages that should get displayed to the user upon failing a check if the warning have been enabled. Each string in the list represents a newline and will be sent individually. If you want an empty message please DO NOT return null, return Collections.emptyList() or any other non-null empty list instead.

(String) Check#replacePlaceholders(String, ChatData)

This method is used by SafeChat in several places, and it allows your check to define custom placeholders that can be later used into the configuration or elsewhere. The purpose of this method is to return the same string provided from the first parameter, but with the placeholders replaced. An example of this could be the following:

    @Override
public String replacePlaceholders(String message,ChatData data){
        return message
        .replace("{PLAYER}",data.getPlayer().getName())
        .replace("{PREFIX}",SafeChat.PREFIX);
        }

(long) Check#getPunishmentRequiredValue()

This is a long value and indicates how many times does the player needs to fail this specific check in order to trigger a punishment. If you do not want your check to cause a punishment you should simply return -1. An example of this would be the following:
suppose you create a check and its punishment required value is 5, then the player will require to fail this check 5 times in order for it to trigger a punishment. After the punishment has been executed, the counter will restart from the beginning.

(String) Check#getPunishmentCommand()

This is the punishment that will be executed when the player fails enough time a check. This messages are also subject to placeholders and they are defined through the replacePlaceholders method. An example could be the following: /kick {PLAYER}

(CheckPriority.Priority) Check#getCheckPriority()

This is the priority of this check. When a check has higher priority level it will be checked before, and vice versa.

(String) Check#getBypassPermission()

This is the permission required to bypass a check. Players that do have this permission will skip this check entirely.

Annotations API

SafeChat uses some annotations in order for you to easily pass information into your checks without having to override methods. SafeChat provides the ChatCheck abstract class, which takes advantage of annotations and automatically overrides Check getName() and getPriority() for you. Note that if you're using ChatCheck you are FORCED to use the following annotations:

@CheckName(name = String)

This annotations allows you to specify the name of that check. Note that this same name will be used in the database.

@CheckPriority(priority = CheckPriority.Priority)

SafeChat implements a priority system, this means that check with a higher priority will be executed first, and check with a low priority will be the last to be checked.

@CheckPermission(name = String)

Used to specify a check's bypass permission.

Check registration

Now that we've explained how to define your own check, we need to register them. To register checks you can find the ** ChecksContainer** class, which uses the singleton pattern.

How to get this object?

As we've already said, this class uses the singleton pattern. In order to get this instance you will first need to check two things: First you want to add SafeChat as required dependency into your plugin.yml.

name: 'MyPlugin'
version: '1.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
main: my.random.namespace.MyPlugin
api-version: '1.13'
depend: [ 'SafeChat' ] # <-- This is the important line!

After having done this, you also want to double check and see if SafeChat has been loaded correctly. To check if SafeChat is loaded correctly, you can simply do this from your code:

public static boolean isSafechatLoaded(){
        return Bukkit.getPluginManager().getPlugin("SafeChat")!=null;
        }

Now, if you correctly followed this two steps, you will be able to register your own check using ChecksContainer. To get the ChecksContainer you can call ChecksContainer.getInstance() and if SafeChat was present and loaded this will not be null.

ChecksContainer Methods:

ChecksContainer defines several methods that allow you to interact with SafeChat checks.

(boolean) ChecksContainer#register(Check)

This method allows you to register a check by passing its instance. After a check has been registered it will be immediately become available to SafeChat and will start operating automatically. The return value of this function reports if the check has been registered correctly; a common case where this would return false is if you were to try to register the same check twice, or tried to register a null check.

(boolean) ChecksContainer#unregister(Check)

This method allows you to unregister a check by passing its instance. SafeChat will no longer keep checking it as long as it has been removed.

(Collection) getActiveChecks()

This method returns all the checks currently registered. The checks are also returned sorted based on their priority.

Check Example:

Now I've explained all of the basics to create and register a check, here's a very simple example of a custom check that'd check message size:

@CheckName(name = "MessageTooLong")
@CheckPriority(priority = CheckPriority.Priority.LOW)
@CheckPermission(permission = "safechat.bypass.long-messages")
public final class MessageTooLongCheck extends ChatCheck {

    public short maximumAllowedMessageLength = 32;
    public long myPunishmentAmount = 5;
    public boolean hasWarning = true;
    public String punishment = "kick {PLAYER} Your message was {MSG_SIZE} but maximum allowed is {MAX_SIZE}!";

    private final List<String> myWarnings = Arrays.asList(
            "&8[&cWARNING&8]&7: &e{PLAYER}&7 your message was too long!",
            "&7The maximum allowed size is {MAX_SIZE}");

    @Override
    public boolean check(@NotNull ChatData data) {
        return data.getMessage().length() > maximumAllowedMessageLength;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasWarningEnabled() {
        return hasWarning;
    }

    @Override
    public @NotNull
    List<String> getWarningMessages() {
        return myWarnings;
    }

    @Override
    public @NotNull
    String replacePlaceholders(@NotNull String message, @NotNull ChatData data) {
        return message
                .replace("{PLAYER}", data.getPlayer().getName())
                .replace("{MSG_SIZE}", Integer.toString(message.length()))
                .replace("{MAX_SIZE}", Short.toString(maximumAllowedMessageLength));
    }

    @Override
    public long getPunishmentRequiredValue() {
        return myPunishmentAmount;
    }

    @Override
    public @NotNull
    String getPunishmentCommand() {
        return punishment;
    }
}

SafeChat Events

This plugin also provides different Bukkit events that allow you to easily listen and interact with safechat using the Bukkit API. All of the checks are stored inside the studio.thevipershow.safechat.api.events package.

The currently available checks are:

CheckPunishmentEvent

This check event is called whenever one of the registered checks is going to trigger a punishment If you cancel this event , the punishment will not happen anymore. This event is thread-safe.

CheckRegisterEvent

This check event is called whenever a new check is getting registered. This event is thread-safe.

CheckUnregisterEvent

This check event is called whenever a check is getting unregistered. This event is thread-safe.

PlayerFailCheckEvent

This check event is called whenever the player fails a check. This check can be cancelled and doing so will cause SafeChat to skip this check and ignore it for that one message. This event is non thread-safe!

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This guide finishes here, thank you for reading!