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# ✉️ Message Utilities

The `MessageUtils` engine handles reading, parsing, and dispatching localization strings directly from configuration files with advanced context support.

#### ✨ Key Features

* 🔄 **Dynamic Placeholders**: Automatically compiles manual placeholder pairs, global placeholders (`{player}`, `{version}`, `{plugin_name}`), and seamless downstream **PlaceholderAPI** parsing.
* 📦 **Context Safety**: Automatically detects if the command executor is a player or the console to adapt context routing safely.
* 🌈 **Integrated Color Flow**: Every message dispatched passes through the `ColorUtils` layer automatically.

#### 💡 API Usage Examples

```java
// Initialize inside your plugin context
MessageUtils msg = new MessageUtils(plugin);

// 1. Fetching strings manually with custom replacements
String customized = msg.get(player, "Messages.SomePath", "{custom_key}", "Custom Value");

// 2. Dispatching single messages directly to a sender
msg.send(sender, "Messages.NoPermission");

// 3. Dispatching multi-line lists from configurations
msg.sendList(sender, "Messages.KynosLibHelp.Instructions");

// 4. Using fast common shorthand methods
msg.sendNoPermission(sender);
msg.sendPlayerOnly(sender);
msg.sendUnknownCommand(sender, "invalidcmd");
```


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