Get proper name from Material/MaterialID

Hey I was just wondering if anyone has a nice helper class or if there is a simple way to get the proper name for an item given it's material + data value. This is an issue I've never properly solved.

For example to take the material number and data value for a steve head or wood axe and return "Steve Head" or "Wood Axe", or whatever their proper name is.

 

I made a function that could take in 'bedblock' and return 'BedBlock',
It could be easily modified instead of changing the underscore to "", but instead to " "

 

The is the best I've come up with... can't help but think there's a better way:

Code:

    public String getMaterialName(Material material) {
        StringBuilder materialName = new StringBuilder();
        for(String c : material.toString().toLowerCase().split("_")) {
            materialName.append(Character.toUpperCase(c.charAt(0))).append(c, 1, c.length()).append(" ");
        }
        return materialName.toString().trim();
    }

 

There isn't really a way, I mean in Essentials we do it by having a huge CSV lookup table, but even then it only handles damage, not NBT data.

 

I can post my method if you want it, but it doesn't handle damage even

 

Thanks for your replies .

If that's the case I suppose I can maintain my own. For my purpose I think the standard replace underscore+titlecase system will work, with the exception of skull items.

Basically what Gildan27 uses with a prepended switch:

Code:

package com.gmail.ne0nx3r0.utils;
 
import org.bukkit.Material;
 
public class MaterialName
{
    public static String getMaterialDisplayName(int matId,byte dv)
    {        
        Material m = Material.getMaterial(matId);
        
        if(m ==  Material.SKULL_ITEM)
        {
            switch(dv)
            {
                case 0x0:
                    return "Skeleton Head";
                case 0x1:
                    return "Wither Head";
                case 0x2:
                    return "Zombie Head";
                case 0x3:
                    return "Steve Head";
                case 0x4:
                    return "Creeper Head";
            }
        }
 
        StringBuilder materialName = new StringBuilder();
        
        for(String c : m.toString().toLowerCase().split("_"))
        {
            materialName.append(Character.toUpperCase(c.charAt(0))).append(c, 1, c.length()).append(" ");
        }
        
        return materialName.toString().trim();
    }
}