Get Permissions of Player (offline)

I'm trying to do some checks to see if a user has a permission node, but that player may or may not be online at the time (the command is a script that is run that updates certain players stats based on their permissions).
I'm using PermissionsBukkit as my permissions plugin.
obviously, i cannot use Bukkit.getPlayer("playername");, because that will only get someone who is online.
I heard that the getofflineplayer method may be able to do this, but its not implemented...

So...Does anyone know of any other way to check a permission node of a player who isn't online?
I can do it via command (/permissions check )..

Thanks!

 

I'm also looking for a way to do this. I want to be able to read all of the groups and users in my config.yml programmatically.

 

You could log names, save them to a file, then when needed pull names a compare them to the specified player your looking for as a string,use that string see if the permissions file contains it,then get that player's category's permissions ,or get them from the 'player dat's' but that sounds inefficient in my opinion. There's a much better way to do it then that, but i thought of name logging instantly for some reason. If you need to check if a player is online, just insert a null check. Wait, scratch that why not just get the name string from args[0], null check that player object, and then use basic .yml rule from there to find player information...the permissions nodes are just strings...as is everything else...I'm confusing myself, as i didn't read the whole post initially, just the title.

 

I'm pretty sure getofflineplayer is now implemented, please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Yes, but hasPermission isn't (For OfflinePlayer)

 

You just need a string to check the Yaml, why getoffilineplayer anyway if your arg would match the desired object.
iKeirNez It is, but as tips48 stated, you cant use that on co-op(in simple terms) with bukkits method getoffilineplayer.

 

Oh ok my bad.