This page describes how to open an inventory to a player.
An InventoryViewer is an encapsulation of a player and its associated inventories, which are handled in the an InventoryViewManager. This class provides methods for opening / closing inventories and to navigate through the player's inventory history.
An InventoryViewer is created automatically for each player joining the server and then stored in an InventoryService. The viewer associated to a player can be retrieved as in the following code:
An InventoryProvider is responsible for providing an inventory. All the providers are stored in an InventoryService and can be retrieved as in the following code:
The following code shows how you can open an inventory to a player.
The open() and close() methods available in the CraftVentory interface should never be used to open or close an inventory. You must use the methods from the InventoryViewManager interface instead.