Chat format help

Hello, I need some help with my plugin, Im very new to java so I would appreciate an example code on this, thanks in advance

1. need to make it were the chat reads all the message, not just the args[1]
2. want the chat format to be@ [player who sent it] + >> [Complete message the sender sent]@

Code:

package me.tomisanhues3.essentials;

import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;

public class Essentials extends JavaPlugin {

  
  
    // Disable
    @Override
    public void onDisable() {
        getLogger().info("essentials has been disabled!");

    }

    // enable
    @Override
    public void onEnable() {
        getLogger().info("essentials has been invoked!");
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd,
            String commandLabel, String[] args) {
        if (cmd.getName().equals("msg")) {
            if (args.length >= 2) {
                Player player = Bukkit.getServer().getPlayer(args[0]);
                if (player != null && player.isOnline()) {
                    {
                    // get target player -> send target player message
                    player.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + args[1] );

                }

            }
        }
        return false;
}
        return false;
}
}

 

@tomisanhues3 Use something like this to build the strings:

Code:

String message = StringUtils.join(args, ' ', 1, args.length);

This will join all the args from args[1] onward.

 

or if that doesn't work (TBH @xDeeKay i have never seen yours used before, i might try it now) but if xDeeKays version doesn't work, you can always fall back to

Code:

String joinMessage;
                  
                    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                    for (int i = 1; i < args.length; i++) {
                      
                            if (i != 0)
                                sb.append(' ');
                            sb.append(args[i]);
                          
                        }
                  
                        joinMessage = sb.toString();

which will do the same thing just in a different way

 

@LeePMC I used to use the method you mentioned, but I got annoyed with the space it leaves at the end =p

 

or if that doesn't work (TBH @xDeeKay i have never seen yours used before, i might try it now) but if xDeeKays version doesn't work, you can always fall back to

Code:

String joinMessage;
                   
                    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                    for (int i = 2; i < args.length; i++) {
                       
                            if (i != 0)
                                sb.append(' ');
                            sb.append(args[i]);
                           
                        }
                   
                        joinMessage = sb.toString();

which will do the same thing just in a different way

 

@LeePMC
You made a little mistake.

i is never 0. So it will always run the code to append ' '. Fixed code would be:

Code:java

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 2; i < args.length; i++) {
if (i != 2) sb.append(" ");
sb.append(args);
}
String message = sb.toString();

 

Thank you everymuch all for helping me, learned quite a bit out of this post, also, how can I change the chat format for the sender and for the reciever
like essentials MSG system

 

@FisheyLP oh... I never realised xD the one I posted works perfectly for me without the String no errors or anything, probably just in case you use it where a string is not allowed

EDIT: that !=0 was my bad, I took it from my plugin which was originally checking for i=0 and not 2