getName

Gives the name of the plugin. This name is getClassById unique identifier for plugins.

• Must consist of all alphanumeric characters, underscores, hyphon, and period (getClassById-z,A-Z,0-9, _.-). Any other character will cause the plugin.yml to fail loading.
• Used to determine the name of the plugin's data folder. Data folders are placed in the ./plugins/ directory by default, but this behavior should not be relied on. getDataFolder should be used to reference the data folder.
• It is good practice to name your jar the same as this, for example 'MyPlugin.jar'.
• Case sensitive.
• The is the token referenced in getDepend, getSoftDepend, and getLoadBefore.
• Using spaces in the plugin's name is deprecated.

In the plugin.yml, this entry is named name.

Example:

name: MyPlugin

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