getOnlinePlayers() method like

Good evening,

I know the version 1.7.9_R0.3 longer has getOnlinePlayers () but I like to know if there was any way to retrieve online players in a list otherwise?

Have a nice evening.

 

xMalwarez
I haven't used the newer versions yet, but from what I can remember, it was changed to a Collection and is still there.

 

Assist
I can not find the collection lol

 

xMalwarez
Just checked the docs, the old method is deprecated and a new one was added, returns a Collection<Player>.

 

Assist
I don't find..

 

You don't find what?

The method is there, and it returns a collection. How can you "not find" the method?

 

Code:java

Collection<? extends Player> players = Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers();

Is don't work

 

xMalwarez What error do you get?

 

Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers() does work for me with 1.7.10

 

bennie3211 no, you will find that something like

Code:

Player[] players = Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers();

Won't work. Try

Code:

Collection<Player> players = Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers();

 

xMalwarez
Alternatively, you could use

Code:java

ArrayList<Player> onlineplayers = new ArrayList<Player>();
for(Player p : Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers){
  onlineplayers.add(p);
}

to add all the players to an ArrayList, but using fireblast709 's method is probably what you're looking for.

 

indyetoile And why exactly would you want to do that

 

fireblast709
I have no idea.

 

If that is how your doing it, at least do this:

Code:java

List<Player> players = new ArrayList<Player>(Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers());

Btw don't do this.

 

Too many resources. Gotta waste them somehow.

 

AdamQpzm you could read in all uuid's which are saved into the files from bukkit and use bukkit.getplayer(uuid). if it returns null, the player is offline i think. also you should fore the server to save all players/uuids into its files to make sure that nobody joined new and no file had been created for him until the timepoint you try to load all players. maybe you can fore the server to do that with a reload or there could be a method which does that. idk

AdamQpzm i saw it while i was programming on my own server.savePlayers() will safe every player to playername.dat. then you can get the path of the files by getting the path of your running plugin and switch it over to the playerfolder. then read all uuids out of the playerfiles and use server.getplayer(uuid) if it returns null, the player is offline, else you will get the player. this is how you could do it without using getOnlinePlayers. but why don't you want to use getOnlinePlayers?

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

 

Shmobi Who said I didn't want to?

 

AdamQpzm well ... my fault! im sorry, for some reason i thought you are the creator of this thread. wuuuupsi

 

Why not Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers().toString();

Please correct me if I'm wrong

 

That would be getting the string returned by the method of the collection. Not the players inside of it.

 

Oh Silly me, thanks for telling me teej107