Bukkit.getPlayer fails on PlayerRespawnEvent

Hi,

I recently discovered something strange:

Code:java

@EventHandler
public void onPlayerRespawn(PlayerRespawnEvent event)
{
Player player = Bukkit.getPlayer(event.getPlayer().getName());
if (player != null)
player.sendMessage("player exists!");
else
Bukkit.broadcastMessage("player doesn't exist ?!");
}

event.getPlayer is assigned but Bukkit.getPlayer() doesn't return a Player object of event.getPlayer().getName().

Is this a bug?

I'm using craftbukkit 1.4.6 R0.1 beta.

 

Why not just use Player player = event.getPlayer()?

 

It's used indirectly by another method called in the PlayerRespawnEvent:

(Pseudo code):

Code:java

 
@EventHandler
public void onPlayerRespawn(PlayerRespawnEvent event)
{
    aClass dummy = getClassForPlayer(event.getPlayer.getName()); // returns existing aClass- object for player
    dummy.aMethod();
}
 
class aClass
{
    String playername = "<a player name >";
 
    public void aMethod()
    {
         Player player = Bukkit.getPlayer(playername);
         if (player != null)
         {
             // Do something <--- this is not executed because Bukkit.getPlayer(playername) fails
        }
    }
}
[syntax][/syntax]

 

Well, the event.getPlayer() is a Player so why don't just use that?
This is from my plugin:

Code:java

 
@EventHandler
public void PlayerRespawn(PlayerRespawnEvent e){
    Player p = e.getPlayer();
    this.spawnHandler.Teleport(p, p.getWorld());
}
 

 

Or, in your case, just pass the Player object to the class instead of the Player object