v4.2.3 Changelog:

+ Added method to build an Exception into a String
+ Added method to upload data to https://paste.theprogramsrc.xyz/
+ Added method to validate json string

Author: TheProgramSrc

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+## v4.2.3 Changelog:
+```
++ Added method to build an Exception into a String
++ Added method to upload data to https://paste.theprogramsrc.xyz/
++ Added method to validate json string
+```
+
 ## v4.2.2 Changelog:
 ```
 + Added API Update Checker

pom.xml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <groupId>xyz.theprogramsrc</groupId>
     <artifactId>SuperCoreAPI</artifactId>
-    <version>4.2.3_BETA1</version>
+    <version>4.2.3</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>SuperCoreAPI</name>
@@ -165,12 +165,5 @@
             <version>2.13.2</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <!-- Tests
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-            <version>RELEASE</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency> -->
     </dependencies>
 </project>

src/main/java/xyz/theprogramsrc/supercoreapi/Base.java

@@ -17,15 +17,14 @@ public Base(SuperPlugin<?> plugin){
 
     private void loadUpdateChecker(){
         new SpigotUpdateChecker("77096"){
-
             @Override
             public void onCheckFail() {
                 Base.this.plugin.log("&cError while checking &4SuperCoreAPI &cupdates.");
             }
 
             @Override
             public void onCheckSuccess(String lastVersion) {
-                String currentVersion = "4.2.2";
+                String currentVersion = "4.2.3";
                 int latest = Integer.parseInt(lastVersion.split(" ")[0].replaceAll("\\.", ""));
                 int current = Integer.parseInt(currentVersion.split(" ")[0].replaceAll("\\.", ""));
                 if(latest > current){

src/main/java/xyz/theprogramsrc/supercoreapi/global/utils/Utils.java

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 package xyz.theprogramsrc.supercoreapi.global.utils;
 
+import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
+import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
 import org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin;
 
 import java.io.*;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
 import java.net.UnknownHostException;
@@ -290,7 +293,7 @@ public static String readWithInputStream(String url) {
         try{
             URL javaURL = new URL(url);
             URLConnection connection = javaURL.openConnection();
-            connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
+            connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36");
             return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream())).lines().collect(Collectors.joining());
         }catch (IOException ex){
             ex.printStackTrace();
@@ -623,7 +626,82 @@ public static List<String> ct(List<String> list){
      * and {@code false} otherwise
      */
     public static boolean equals(Object a, Object b) {
-        return (a == b) || (a != null && a.equals(b));
+        return Objects.equals(a, b);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns {@code true} if the input is a valid json
+     * @return {@code true} if the input is a valid json, otherwise {@code false}
+     */
+    public static boolean isJSONEncoded(String input){
+        try{
+            new JsonParser().parse(input);
+            return true;
+        }catch (Exception e){
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a new post request
+     * @param url the url
+     * @param contentData the data to send
+     * @return the url response output
+     */
+    public static String postRequest(String url, String contentData) throws IOException{
+        URL javaURL = new URL(url);
+        HttpURLConnection connection = ((HttpURLConnection)javaURL.openConnection());
+        connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
+        connection.setDoOutput(true);
+        connection.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36");
+        connection.addRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=UTF-8");
+        connection.addRequestProperty("Content-Length", contentData.length()+"");
+        OutputStream out = connection.getOutputStream();
+        out.write(contentData.getBytes());
+        connection.connect();
+        InputStream in = connection.getInputStream();
+        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
+        String result = reader.lines().collect(Collectors.joining());
+        connection.disconnect();
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Upload a new paste to <a href="https://paste.theprogramsrc.xyz/">https://paste.theprogramsrc.xyz/</a>
+     *
+     * @param body the body of the paste
+     * @return the paste key
+     */
+    public static String uploadPaste(String body){
+        String url = "https://paste.theprogramsrc.xyz/documents";
+        try{
+            String post = postRequest(url, body);
+            if(post != null){
+                if(isJSONEncoded(post)){
+                    JsonObject json = new JsonParser().parse(post).getAsJsonObject();
+                    return json.get("key").getAsString();
+                }
+            }
+        }catch (IOException e){
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Build an {@link Exception exception} into a string
+     * @param e the exception
+     * @return the stack trace as string
+     */
+    public static String exceptionToString(Exception e){
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        builder.append(e.getClass().getName()).append(": ").append(e.getMessage() != null ? e.getMessage() : "null").append("\n");
+        for (StackTraceElement ste : e.getStackTrace()) {
+            builder.append("\tat ").append(ste.getClassName()).append(".").append(ste.getMethodName()).append("(").append(ste.getFileName()).append(":").append(ste.getLineNumber()).append(")").append("\n");
+        }
+
+        return builder.toString();
     }
 }