Solved Getting the contents of a book

Hello all. I've been trying to add some code into my plugin to get the contents of a book. Let's say I create a book. I want to check for all the pages available and get the message inside the book without replacing, modifying or resetting the book.

How exactly would I do this? (Test codes are appreciated ). I tried a couple of things, but had no luck, nor errors.

Thanks, metmad22.

 

@metmad22

Code:java

//ItemStack book
BookMeta meta = (BookMeta) book.getItemMeta();
List<String> pages = book.getPages();

 

@pie_flavor Hey pie, thank you for responding. I tried that code before. The thing this, I'm using some code to get information from my server and send it over to an online website as a log. I'm using java's URLConnection to achieve this.

I tried doing this, but it returns nothing. Just an empty [].

Code:

ItemStack book = new ItemStack(Material.WRITTEN_BOOK);
        BookMeta meta = (BookMeta) book.getItemMeta();
        List<String> pages = meta.getPages();



String data = URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(pages), "UTF-8");

Any idea how I can fix this? All I get is this:
"-BOOK-: []" An empty bracket. (No errors)

 

@metmad22 Try Joiner.on(" ").join(pages.toArray(new String[]{}) to get the unbroken string. Make sure you're importing com.google.common.core instead of net.minecraft.server.util.com.google.common.core.

 

@pie_flavor Also, on the custom logs I created if I use

Code:

String data = URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(pages.toArray()), "UTF-8");

It gives me this in the custom log:


@pie_flavor That doesn't seem to be working at all. No errors either.

<Edit by mrCookieSlime: Merged posts.>

 

@metmad22 Use Arrays.toString(pages.toArray()).

 

@nverdier

This is what I get.
metmad22-BOOK-: []

 

@metmad22 And you're sure there is stuff in the book?

 

@nverdier Yes. I just created a book. What I do is open a connection to the url and those strings in the pictures are the variables of the link. The log is just a basic file sheet online which gets the information.

 

@metmad22 Try using PlayerEditBookEvent. Just tested with

Code:

@EventHandler
    public void onBookEdit(PlayerEditBookEvent e)
    {
      System.out.println(Arrays.toString(e.getNewBookMeta().getPages().toArray()));
    }

 

metmad22-BOOK-: [This§0
§0is§0
§0
§0an§0
§0exampe, test to, check if the plugin§0
§0
§0
§0is §0
§0
§0working!]

It works now Are those signs generated by PHP? I'm using a Url encoder to encode the message before saving it though. Also, is there a way to possibly write this all in one line like a phrase? @nverdier

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

@metmad22 Just replace all of the "\n" with nothing.

 

@nverdier I get this now.
metmad22-BOOK-: [This§0§0is§0§0§0an§0§0exampe, test to, check if the plugin§0§0§0§0is §0§0§0working!]

How can I remove those signs? Here is what I did:

Arrays.toString(event.getNewBookMeta().getPages().toArray()).replaceAll("\n", "")

Do I just filter those using regex too?

 

@metmad22 What are you putting into the book?

 

@nverdier "This is an example text to check if the plugin is working" on random lines and pages

 

@metmad22 And what server version are you using?

 

@nverdier 1.8.2

 

@metmad22 Hmm, same here... I didn't get any of those symbols. Try using the code I posted.

 

@nverdier I did. It's because i'm sending over to a PHP code and displaying it through a link. Hmmm, if you're interested, I'll post a fix if I find one now. But thank you very much for helping me out!

 

@metmad22 No problem! Glad to be of help

 

@nverdier There you go. I fixed it all up now Here is what I used:

Code:

Arrays.toString(event.getNewBookMeta().getPages().toArray()).replaceAll("(Â?§0\\n?|\\s+)+", " ")

I used that regex code to replace those weird symbols. It filters through it all.
Result:

Code:

metmad22-BOOK-: [This is an exampe, test to, check if the plugin is working!]

Thanks again!

 

@metmad22 Sweet! But I'm still not sure why they were there in the first place...

 

@nverdier Those were just the way the PHP code handled the raw text and stuff, since I'm communicating between online web servers. Anyway, that regex code saves the day

 

@metmad22 I see. Well cool! #regexftw