Improve SpawnerMenuUI Performance and Configuration Handling

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This PR implements several performance improvements and configuration enhancements for the SmartSpawner plugin's GUI system.

🚀 Performance Improvements

GUI Item Caching

Added intelligent caching to SpawnerMenuUI to dramatically improve openSpawnerMenu() performance:

• Item Cache: GUI items are now cached with spawner-specific keys to avoid redundant item creation
• Smart Invalidation: Cache is automatically invalidated when spawner data changes (stack size, experience, config reloads)
• Time-based Expiry: Cache entries expire after 30 seconds to ensure data freshness
• Memory Efficient: Automatic cleanup and size management

Cache Invalidation Points

Cache is properly cleared when:

• SpawnerData.updateStackSize() is called
• SpawnerData.setSpawnerExp() changes experience values
• SpawnerGuiViewManager.updateSpawnerMenuViewers() triggers GUI updates
• Plugin configuration is reloaded

⚙️ Configuration Improvements

Enhanced Action Handling

• Empty Actions Support: Buttons with empty or missing .actions sections now do nothing instead of defaulting to clickable actions
• "none" Action Type: Added support for left_click: none and right_click: none to explicitly disable click actions
• Better Error Handling: Improved validation for button action configurations

Action Name Updates

Updated action naming for consistency:

• sell_inventory → sell_and_exp (better describes the action of selling items AND collecting experience)

🔌 API Enhancement

New Developer Event

Added SpawnerOpenGUIEvent to the public API:

SpawnerOpenGUIEvent event = new SpawnerOpenGUIEvent(
    player, location, entityType, stackSize, isRefresh
);

• Cancellable: Developers can prevent GUI opening
• Rich Data: Provides player, location, entity type, stack size, and refresh status
• Consistent Pattern: Follows existing event patterns like SpawnerPlaceEvent

🎯 Benefits

• Better Performance: GUI operations are significantly faster due to intelligent caching
• Reduced Server Load: Fewer item creations and GUI updates
• Enhanced Flexibility: More configuration options for button behaviors
• Developer Friendly: New API event for custom integrations
• Backward Compatible: All changes maintain existing functionality

🔧 Technical Details

The caching system uses compound cache keys (e.g., spawner_id|storage|items|slots|hash) to ensure precise invalidation while maintaining data integrity. Cache invalidation is strategically placed at all spawner data mutation points to ensure GUI consistency.

Configuration parsing now properly handles edge cases like empty action sections and the special "none" value, making GUI layouts more flexible and robust.

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Original prompt

Improve openSpawnerMenu() Performance

Location: core/src/main/java/github/nighter/smartspawner/spawner/gui/main/SpawnerMenuUI.java

If cache was use ensure it is properly cleared/invalidated whenever SpawnerData methods such as updateStackSize() (and similar updates) are called in core/src/main/java/github/nighter/smartspawner/spawner/gui/synchronization

Update GuiLayoutConfig Click Actions
Change the action name sell_inventory → sell_and_exp.

Improve main_gui.yml Config Handling

If the .actions section is empty or missing, clicking that button should do nothing (instead of defaulting to a clickable action).

Add a new option "none" for left_click and right_click.
When "none" is configured, clicking should explicitly do nothing.

Add SpawnerOpenGUI api event in api/src/main/java/github/nighter/smartspawner/api/events for developer API

dont't write javadocs or comment in english only write if nesscary keep the code clean and you can use Lombok @Getter annotations

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