CustomDeathMessages

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📜 CHANGELOG - CustomDeathMessages v0.0.7

The evolution never stops! Version 0.0.7 takes the solid foundation of v0.0.6 and elevates it with an essential tool for administrators: a built-in configuration validator. This release focuses on error prevention, ease of use, and stability, ensuring your experience with custom death messages is flawless.

⚠️ IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTE
To fully leverage the new features and ensure compatibility:

1. Make a backup of your current config.yml and messages.yml files.
2. Delete the config.yml and messages.yml files from your server's plugins/CustomDeathMessages/ folder.
3. Restart or reload the server. The plugin will automatically generate new, up-to-date configuration files with all new options, examples, and system messages.
4. You can then manually re-add your custom settings and messages from your backup into the new files.

✨ New Features

• Added: Integrated Configuration Validator (/cdm config validate)
  The flagship feature of this version! This new command allows administrators to validate the correctness of their config.yml and messages.yml files before reloading. It scans for:

  • Invalid sounds and particles (global, per-group, and epic).
  • Syntax errors in conditions (unknown operators, malformed placeholders).
  • Generates a detailed report in the chat with success (✅), error (❌), and warning (⚠️) messages, along with a summary of the current configuration.

• Added: New System Messages for the Validator
  A complete section has been added to messages.yml under system-messages with translatable messages for the validator, such as config-validator-sound-not-found, config-validator-condition-syntax-warning, and config-validator-success-all, enabling a fully localizable user experience.

• Added: New /cdmconfig Command
  A new entry point for the validator. Administrators can run /cdm config validate to start the validation process. Uses the cdm.reload permission.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed: Enhanced Atomic Reload
  The /cdmreload command has been improved to be even more robust. It now explicitly validates messages.yml before attempting to load config.yml. If messages.yml has a critical syntax error (e.g., malformed YAML), the reload process stops immediately, notifies the user, and prints the full stack trace to the console, preventing any unstable intermediate state.

• Fixed: Error Handling in Reload
  Improved error handling in /cdmreload to capture and report unexpected failures more clearly, ensuring the administrator always receives feedback, even in edge cases.

🛠️ Improvements & Optimizations

• Improved: Administrator Experience
  The validator provides a proactive way to debug configurations, drastically reducing the risk of runtime errors and saving hours of frustration from misplaced brackets or commas.

• Improved: Documentation
  The config.yml and messages.yml files have been updated with comments referencing the new validation functionality, guiding users on how to keep their configurations error-free.

• Optimized: Development Workflow
  The introduction of ConfigValidator sets a pattern for future diagnostic and maintenance tools within the plugin, improving the codebase's long-term structure.

With v0.0.7, CustomDeathMessages is not only more powerful but also safer and easier to manage. The integrated validator is a giant leap towards a perfect user experience for both players and administrators.