Load Existing Worlds Whose Plugin No Longer Exists about sponge HOT 8 CLOSED

@gabizou

We discussed this at length last night. I will say that when @bloodmc first got the world changes working in Sponge and I removed the plugin creating the world, it surprised me when they still loaded. Maybe this stems from the fact that a world never existed in Spout unless a plugin provided it.

The beauty of this is it isn't too...difficult to support this as we can simply track if a world is set to load and then only load worlds that fit this criteria. Question is, should this be the expected behavior or leave as-is?

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Question is, should this be the expected behavior or leave as-is?

That's why I created the issue so we can get some feedback from other people ;)

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Maybe actually allow the plugin to control this? Plugin creating world can say "load this even if I'm not present" or "only load if I am present". Could even be as simple as marking the world with an "owner" (plugin), which if present is required to load the world, and if left blank (by the seeding plugin) will allow the world to load regardless.

The import of this issue resolves to plugins which provide world generation features. A plugin should be able to say "loading this world without me present will cause bad chunks/weird shit" vs. a plugin saying, "I'm creating this, it's a regular world in all other respects so go ahead and load it regardless.

tl;dr If in doubt, make it configurable.

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If you want provide multi-world support, do it right: Add a worlds config and maybe some commands to load/create/unload worlds.

Or follow the vanilla behavior: Without plugins, only load one world.

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Yes. World should only be loaded if the server is requested to do so. Either by config oder method call.

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I agree with Mumfrey - allow the WorldBuilder to set this.

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@JBYoshi

• you can't easily see which world requires which plugin, which is bad for transparency
• you shouldn't mix the concerns of when to load a world with the actual content of it
• personally, I think it's ugly if you have a server writing any data other than Vanilla to a world folder

EDIT: #116 may be related to my last point...

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Closing, admins have full control over loading a world and it is up to them if they let a world load when a vital plugin/mod is missing.

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