[Method] Title JSON Tool

Hello,

I was playing with the new Title feature in 1.8 and decided to make a method to generate the json.

Example: You have a deathmatch minigame, and when someone kills another player you want to send the players a Title for that, this is what you have to do to get the Json (IMPORTANT: You still need a library to send the actual packet or you can write that yourself):

Code:

getJSON(ChatColor.GOLD.toString() + ChatColor.BOLD.toString() + killer.getName() + ChatColor.WHITE + " killed " + ChatColor.GOLD.toString() + ChatColor.BOLD.toString() + player.getName());

This is what you'll get:

Code:

{text:"Notch ",color:gold,bold:true,underlined:false,italic:false,strikethrough:false,obfuscated:false,extra:[{text:"killed ",color:white,bold:false,underlined:false,italic:false,strikethrough:false,obfuscated:false,extra:[{text:"Jeb",color:gold,bold:true,underlined:false,italic:false,strikethrough:false,obfuscated:false}]}]}

So here is the method:

Code:java

/**
* @author werter318
* @param title
* @return String
*/
public static String getJSON(String title) {
char colorChar = ChatColor.COLOR_CHAR;
 
String template = "{text:\"TEXT\",color:COLOR,bold:BOLD,underlined:UNDERLINED,italic:ITALIC,strikethrough:STRIKETHROUGH,obfuscated:OBFUSCATED,extra:[EXTRA]}";
String json = "";
 
List<String> parts = new ArrayList<String>();
 
int first = 0;
int last = 0;
 
while ((first = title.indexOf(colorChar, last)) != -1) {
int offset = 2;
while ((last = title.indexOf(colorChar, first + offset)) - 2 == first) {
offset += 2;
}
 
if (last == -1) {
parts.add(title.substring(first));
break;
} else {
parts.add(title.substring(first, last));
}
}
 
if (parts.isEmpty()) {
parts.add(title);
}
 
Pattern colorFinder = Pattern.compile("(" + colorChar + "([a-f0-9]))");
for (String part : parts) {
json = (json.isEmpty() ? template : json.replace("EXTRA", template));
 
Matcher matcher = colorFinder.matcher(part);
ChatColor color = (matcher.find() ? ChatColor.getByChar(matcher.group().charAt(1)) : ChatColor.WHITE);
 
json = json.replace("COLOR", color.name().toLowerCase());
json = json.replace("BOLD", String.valueOf(part.contains(ChatColor.BOLD.toString())));
json = json.replace("ITALIC", String.valueOf(part.contains(ChatColor.ITALIC.toString())));
json = json.replace("UNDERLINED", String.valueOf(part.contains(ChatColor.UNDERLINE.toString())));
json = json.replace("STRIKETHROUGH", String.valueOf(part.contains(ChatColor.STRIKETHROUGH.toString())));
json = json.replace("OBFUSCATED", String.valueOf(part.contains(ChatColor.MAGIC.toString())));
 
json = json.replace("TEXT", part.replaceAll("(" + colorChar + "([a-z0-9]))", ""));
}
 
json = json.replace(",extra:[EXTRA]", "");
 
return json;
}

Thanks for reading/using! <3

 

werter318 Very nice I will definitely be using this in the future