Getting an external plugin api?

[Nathaniel Szpunar]

I read the documentation on this, but when I get a plugin through PluginManage#getPlugin, it just returns a string with the version name, not the actual plugin API. Is there a maven repo so that I can add the plugin as a maven dependency, and then rebuild the plugin? Or is there another way to do this?

[Josh Wulf]

When you say that it just returns a string with the version name - do you derive this by calling print or console.log on it? Because if you do, then what you see is the result of calling the toString() method on it. 

[Nathaniel Szpunar]

Yeah, I get that, but any methods that I call on it don't work, and they give a "method not found" type error. (thanks for answering btw didn't think anyone would)

[Josh Wulf]

Try calling getName() on the returned object. That will eliminate the case where you have a plugin, and the method you are calling legit doesn't exist.

If you have a code sample, it would be easier to help you.

Josh