Solved getPlayer from args?

Hi, how can I get a Player from a Command Argument?
Just to make it simple, we think the Player name are argument 1.

I have tried this:

Code:java

Player target = (Player) args[1];

Code:java

Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer(args[1]);

The first get red underline, and the second one get yellow underline......

 

Dear Stamline,

This should work

Code:java

 //Check if the player has sent one argument
if(args.length == 1)
//Check if the player name the player has sent is online / not equal to null
if(Bukkit.getPlayer(args[0]) != null)
//Get the player
Player player = Bukkit.getPlayer(args[0]);

This works, but the second code you posted should work fine too, what does it say about it?

 

I think it work now, with the second code

Nope..... the player has to be online..... How can I make so I can make it run when the player is online or not. So it doesn´t matter....

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

stamline Careful using the getPlayer(String name) method. It's becoming deprecated since Minecraft is going to a UUID based system to identity players. This would work as well:

Code:java

if(cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("online"))
{
    for(Player player : this.getServer().getOnlinePlayers())
    {
        if(player.getName().equals(args[0]))
        {
 
            return true;
        }
    }
}

 

PHP:

Player target = Bukkit.getPlayer(args[1]);
 
if (target != null) {
p.sendMessage(target + " is online.");
}else{
p.sendMessage(target + "is offline,");
}

 

Konkz
Wouldn't null mean that the player might not exists too and not just if his online or not?

 

Do you mean if the play is not existent? As if I typed "ifwehiofhewi"? Well, if you want to do that
than you got to do some stuff on your own side; if you want to check through players
that were on your server and if they are not on that list don't do it then it's up to you to set up
a config/database to store that.

In the instance that I presented null would mean that player is not on server, most plugins such as
PermissionEx do that - if you add player "hiimnotreal" to the usergroup Admin it will add them, they
may never go on server and such but they will be there.

 

Konkz I just got the impression that the OP wanted to handle both online and offline players, (hence why he used getOfflinePlayer() in 1 of his code's

 

Hence I used }else{

If you'd do

getConfig().set("MyGame.players." + target.getName()"); and the target was konkz - even know I was offline it would save my name.