Solved How to give players items?

Hello all! I need some help again. I am trying to give players an item specified, but my solution would be creating an if() statement for every item. But there are thousands of items in Minecraft, so that would be near impossible. So, I tried grabbing the argument for what item to give, created a String out of it and plopped it into the addItem() method. It still gave me an error. Here is my code:

Code:

Player player = (Player) sender;
StringBuilder itemGrabber = new StringBuilder();
itemGrabber.append(args[0]);
String item = itemGrabber.toString().trim().toUpperCase();
player.getInventory().addItem(new ItemStack(Material.item));

 

@ThePandaPlayer can you show me your error?

 

I'm not compiling the code (just a side note) Eclipse is telling me "item cannot be resolved or is not a field"

 

@ThePandaPlayer
You can't convert a string directly to an itemstack. However, you can match strings to materials, and create new Itemstacks with that material. Here is the code for that:

Code:

ItemStack item = new ItemStack(Material.matchMaterial(MATERIAL NAME));

 

@Zombie_Striker
Could you provide an example of that? I don't really understand what the method does.

 

Code:

Player player = (Player) sender;
        Material item = Material.getMaterial(args[0].toUpperCase());
        if (item == null) {
            //if material isn't a valid material
        } else {
            player.getInventory().addItem(new ItemStack(item));
        }

EDIT: Looks like your question was already answered but this will work as well!

 

@ThePandaPlayer
What it does is convert a string to a material, and then create a new itemstack with that material. So, If I wanted to get stone, i would use:

Code:

ItemStack item = new ItemStack(Material.matchMaterial("STONE"));

For a diamonds sword, I would use:

Code:

ItemStack item = new ItemStack(Material.matchMaterial("DIAMOND_SWORD"));

and so on, where the string is the name of the material object which is all uppercase.

 

Thank you all! All of these methods work perfectly!