From 316e80b35c143451c9d8df68f52085c9ce0639ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Iain E. Davis" <iain@ruhlendavis.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 18:05:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added public method that will cancel the metrics task.

---
 .../src/main/java/org/mcstats/Metrics.java       | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mods/bukkit/metrics/src/main/java/org/mcstats/Metrics.java b/mods/bukkit/metrics/src/main/java/org/mcstats/Metrics.java
index 8fbb3ac..57529e1 100644
--- a/mods/bukkit/metrics/src/main/java/org/mcstats/Metrics.java
+++ b/mods/bukkit/metrics/src/main/java/org/mcstats/Metrics.java
@@ -283,6 +283,17 @@ public void enable() throws IOException {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Cancels the metric task, needed so that a plugin using embedded metrics can shutdown any tasks it started properly.
+     * 
+     */
+    public void cancelTask() {
+        if (task != null) {
+            task.cancel();
+            task = null;
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Disables metrics for the server by setting "opt-out" to true in the config file and canceling the metrics task.
      *
@@ -298,10 +309,7 @@ public void disable() throws IOException {
             }
 
             // Disable Task, if it is running
-            if (task != null) {
-                task.cancel();
-                task = null;
-            }
+            this.cancelTask();
         }
     }