.getType() not working?

Nothing i do can ever get it to work, and as far as i know I am using it properly.

 

give an example of how you use it?

 

When I replace the code with true, everything works fine, except it effects all entities.
All imports are as should be.

Code:

for (Entity e : player.getNearbyEntities(50d, 50d, 50d)) {
                if (e.getType() == EntityType.SLIME) {  //code that works fine}}

 

this should work fine...

Code:java

for (Entity e : player.getNearbyEntities(50d, 50d, 50d)) {
    if (e.getType() == EntityType.SLIME) { 
        player.sendMessage("There is a Slime near you!");
    }
}

 

It's the same code i posted.
e.getType() just doesn't want to work.

 

Funny enough, there's no getType() method under the Entity.class. It's kind of annoying.

Using entity.toString() may work well enough. Besides that, try getEntityId().

 

It is, look @ the JavaDocs

 

Yeah.. that's true. It should be working, but on my computer's eclipse, Entity e does not define getType()... It's been like that for me for a while.. I'll check the actual class files in my Bukkit API jar

 

you should get the newest version

 

Anytime I use getType(), it explodes.

 

Yup, only the newer API versions have getType() in the Entity.class file. I checked the Entity.class in Bukkit 1.1 R4 and it didn't have it.

 

ScottieD
Yeah that's right, I had to make a workaround function to make this work on R4, but I'm certainly not the first one who did this. I guess it'll be fixed soon. Here's the preview thread.

For now you can use this, but this will miss the new creatures of the next update, so add those or replace this with the new function (if it's working by then).

Code:

    private Enum <CreatureType> getCreatureType(Entity e) {
        if (e instanceof Blaze) return CreatureType.BLAZE;
        if (e instanceof CaveSpider) return CreatureType.CAVE_SPIDER;
        if (e instanceof Chicken) return CreatureType.CHICKEN;
        if (e instanceof Cow) return CreatureType.COW;
        if (e instanceof Creeper) return CreatureType.CREEPER;
        if (e instanceof EnderDragon) return CreatureType.ENDER_DRAGON;
        if (e instanceof Enderman) return CreatureType.ENDERMAN;
        if (e instanceof Ghast) return CreatureType.GHAST;
        if (e instanceof Giant) return CreatureType.GIANT;
        if (e instanceof MagmaCube) return CreatureType.MAGMA_CUBE;
        if (e instanceof MushroomCow) return CreatureType.MUSHROOM_COW;
        if (e instanceof Pig) return CreatureType.PIG;
        if (e instanceof PigZombie) return CreatureType.PIG_ZOMBIE;
        if (e instanceof Sheep) return CreatureType.SHEEP;
        if (e instanceof Silverfish) return CreatureType.SILVERFISH;
        if (e instanceof Skeleton) return CreatureType.SKELETON;
        if (e instanceof Slime) return CreatureType.SLIME;
        if (e instanceof Snowman) return CreatureType.SNOWMAN;
        if (e instanceof Spider) return CreatureType.SPIDER;
        if (e instanceof Squid) return CreatureType.SQUID;
        if (e instanceof Villager) return CreatureType.VILLAGER;
        if (e instanceof Wolf) return CreatureType.WOLF;
        if (e instanceof Zombie) return CreatureType.ZOMBIE;
        return null;
    }

edit: suggest you add the word 'creature' to the topic for future reference
edit2: I mean 'entity', I'm afraid I misunderstood, although the principle should be the same