CommandLabel or Command?

I am curious to see which is best and what you think. Let me explain a default on command might look like this:

Code:

public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command command, String commandLabel, String[] args) {
  //command handling
}

If you use commandLabel to check the command used it doesn't seem to work with aliases in plugin.yml. Whereas if you use command.getName() and the compare it works fine. Which is best to use? Or both are the same. I should think that using command.getName() is better.
- ryan7745

 

Use
command.getName()
http://jd.bukkit.org/doxygen/d8/d63...ecutor.html#a33d313e8c9cb4153e309aa1c8306c844

command.getName() returns the name of the command which was executed. While commandLabel is an alias of the command which was used

 

I always just used commandLabel as I was lazy. I guess I will use the other one now

Last thing, could you give an example of where it would make a difference? I'm curious.

 

I always use if (commandLabel.equalsIgnoreCase("mycommand")) and it works fine. D:

 

BloodShura SgtStud I suppose command.getName() is better then. It means you don't need to listen for each alias

 

Well, I use commandlabel because sometimes I use various commands in only one, which I use if (l.startsWith("anti")) (l = commandlabel). Because I use Antiblock, anticreeper, antimove, antichat, antisheep, antienderman, antipick, antiphysics, to block somethings temporarily, and use this nine times using cmd.getName() would be boring.

 

But using commandLabel means that if someone tries to set up aliases for your commands the aliases won't work. Using command.getName() is the correct way to do this.

Edit: And what in the world do you mean by it would be "boring"?

 

Lol. I guess I will go and change this too.

Last thing, what do you mean by aliases? For example if someone powertooled a command (I'm assuming you know what that it), would that command not work if the code used commandLabel?

 

SgtStud you define aliases in your plugin.yml for example it might look like this:

Code:

commands:
    example:
        usage: /<command>
        description: An example command.
        aliases: [ex]

using /example or /ex trigger the same command

 

It is also possible for a server admin to define aliases in the bukkit.yml file.

 

Oh yea I remember those. Quick question. If you only add the alias to the plugin.yml file, but not to the code, would it still work?

Example plugin.yml:

commands:
attack:
usage: /<command>
description: kill someone
aliases: [kill]

example code:

Code:

if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("attack")){
player.setHealth(0);}

even though the alias kill is used in the yml, I never mentioned it in the code, as in an or statements. If I used /kill, would the plugin be smart enough to run the code?

 

SgtStud that's what we where saying if you use command.getName() then it will

 

Oh sweet that makes my life so much easier

ryan7745 thanks for the help!