Benefits:
* Improves performance, where permission lookup has major impact, with
timeout based lookup, static permissions (skip permission check
entirely), and world/offline based invalidation. (Once fully
implemented.)
* Hopefully more efficient: use Bukkit Permission for faster defaults.
* (Allows control over how which permission is to be
updated/invalidated, which is useful per se.)
Risks:
* Complex changes yield bugs.
* Other plugins depending on NCP might break.
* Cache incoherence might happen (permissions are changed dynamically +-
unintended malconfiguration, or in case of bugs).
* (Endless loops certainly have all been fixed.)
Breaking:
* Lots of more or less internal API has been changed or removed: Check,
CheckType, CheckUtils, TickTask, ...
* Permission checking behavior has been altered.
Rough points:
* Implement a permission cache within PlayerData.
* Remove the player tasks and permission updates in favour of handling
those within DataManager and PlayerData.
* Adjust everything else to it (partly TBD).
* Updating sets of permissions (e.g. for CHAT) is done more lazily now,
i.e. one per 10 ticks). An actual permission check would still yield an
update next tick (asynchronous).
* Fixed/extended random spots (DualCollection, MiniListener registration
support, StringUtil).
Missing:
* Basic implementation
* Cleanup after logout (stages: 1. non-essential like permissions,
2. unrecoverable like set-back location, 3. complete data removal).
* Coverage
* Might have missed spots.
* NoCheatPlus.nameSetPerms should be replaced by caching + default
config for world-wise updating.
* Command permissions are always checked. At least for players,
cache based lookup should get implemented.
* More unit tests.
* Extended configurability: Per-world settings/policies.
* Efficiency
* Not all parts of the implementation are 100%/optimal yet.
If the teleport confirm packet is available, flying packets with
AckResolution.WAITING will be cancelled.
This is real bleeding edge and might need other adjustments not to
freeze players for to be discovered edge cases. The TeleportQueue
already does contain a timeout mechanism and should return
AckResolution.IDLE after some time.
* Count all events/packets regardless of settings.
* MovingListener: Remove pos/look counting for move events.
* MovingFlying: Call the counter method according to primaryThread flag.
Since the normal function is to interpret packets, it's not really a
performance hit, if we always try to interpret packets.
This way at least FlyingFrequency can still run. For incompatible setups
FlyingFrequency can still be disabled.
Some packets arrive with a null world for a player, possibly sent by
plugins - thus attempt to use a stored world name.
This is just a hot fix attempt.
Not sure if this really pays, if most people use protocol-support
plugins that limit packets anyway. There could be some future use, e.g.
generic rate limiting with configurable implementation.
Other:
* New methods for RawConfigFile+ConfigManager to check for
AlmostBooleanS.
* Add all net check permissions to plugin.yml.
This time the focus is on the utilities package.
Possibly used, but not really official API:
* Move block cache to a 'map' sub-package.
* Move RichBounds/RichEntity/Player-Location and TrigUtil to a location
sub-package.
Not really official API, likely not used:
* Move AttribUtil to compat, since it belongs there.
* Split off direction check methods to collision.CollisionUtil.
* Move static BlockCache methods to map.MapUtil.
* Move food related methods from CheckUtils to InventoryUtil.
* Move vehicle/passenger related methods from CheckUtils to
PassengerUtil.
Not breaking:
* Move IdUtil to commons.
This is neither complete nor final. Intentions are to group interfaces
better, rather organizing packages in a flat way.
At some point there will be other major move-arounds, but that'll
hopefully be a point where we have a better idea of where to put what
(...). For now the approach is to move interfaces/things rather where
it's not interfering with profane exemption API use, preferably neither
taking down the top level API layer
(NoCheatPlusAPI).
Added deprecated interfaces to prevent cncp to break too quickly.
Outlook:
* Classes that are rather only expected to be used internally for setup
will likely get moved around freely.
* Classes that have been added since last release might also get moved
around freely.
Not entirely sure this will still protect from anything, shortish:
* Remove cancelling due to coarse pre-checks.
* Rather correct the end location back onto the end block somehow.
* Retry ray-tracing with the pitch and yaw of past flying packets.
* Let the direction check handle the off-too-far part and let people
blame that one for remaining amounts of false positives.
Missing:
* Should confine by distance to last move, perhaps.
Use check-specific debug methods for convenience.
Add to: Check, CheckListener, BaseAdapter.
Relay to: CheckUtils.
Side effects:
* Remove constructor: CheckListener().