IdentifierAPI - Retrieve Users Mojang UUID

Why This is Useful:
* Mojang will begin allowing users to change their username
* You can future-proof your plugin by converting to using their Mojang Account UUID

Download: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/identifierapi/
Alternative Dowload (Until Bukkit Verifies the Project):
<removed non-bukkit download>

Hook the IdentifierAPI in your plugin's main class:

Code:java

public static IdentifierAPI identifier;
 
public void onEnable() {
hookIdentifierAPI();
}
 
private void hookIdentifierAPI() {
PluginManager pm = getServer().getPluginManager();
if(pm.getPlugin("IdentifierAPI") instanceof IdentifierAPI) {
identifier = (IdentifierAPI) pm.getPlugin("IdentifierAPI");
}
}

Hook the plugin in your plugin's main class:
Retreive a player's UUID:

Code:java

identifier.getPlayerUUID("EDawg878")

Credit to Forairan for https://github.com/forairan/ConvertUUID

 

For anyone looking for Mojang's lib, it is located here.

 

EDawg878 I do hope you know that all forairan did was make the source that mojang created compile from maven.

So, credits should go to mojang