Solved Iron Sword of Slightly More Awesomeness

This is the bukkit java docs for setDisplayName to an item. However, it doesn't say anything about a limit of characters I can place before it throws something like a ArrayOutOfBoundsException. Does anyone know on the top of their heads the maximum amount of characters I can put in the string. Also, could you tell me if this is too long:

im.setDisplayName("Iron Sword of Slightly More Awesomeness");

Thanks!

 

For Java strings, it will be around 65k (that's sixty-five thousand) depending on the implementation.

The only limit I know off the top of my head is that inventory titles can't be more than 32 characters, though I have no idea why that restriction is in place or why it has to annoyingly throw an exception for it.

 

_LB That's a nice little fact, I didn't know that .

 

_LB I just tried with a anvil on a creative server. It seems you can only put 30 characters on an item. Bummer.

Edit 1: Visually that is..

Edit 2: I wonder what type of exception it would throw if you had more than 65k characters in a string. o:

 

Sheepii

brb

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1179983/how-many-characters-can-a-java-string-have says 2,147,483,647 characters

 

Code:

[10:33:08 INFO]: qlimax5000 lost connection: Internal Exception: net.minecraft.util.io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: encoded string too long: 66000 bytes
[10:33:08 WARN]: Failed to save player data for qlimax5000
[10:33:08 INFO]: qlimax5000 left the game.

EDIT: Just tried with 65k and that worked, but switching to the sword lags a lot. So you CAN have more than 30 chars in the name

 

Minecraft in general has a lot of ~65k character limits (e.g. in commandblock commands) so keep that in mind.