How to specify player receiver in onCommand method?

I know this is probably a really dumb question, but I really can't figure it out. How can I specify a target player in one of my commands? I am guessing just as there is a "sender", there is not a "receiver". Help would be appreciated, thanks.

 

The target player should be one of the arguments in the command. For example, say your command was /give bob stone. In this case, bob would be the receiver. What you would do to call up the player is to use arg[0] (bob). So you would do.

Code:

if (Bukkit.getPlayer(arg[1]).isOnline) {
//give player stone
}

 

Ah, ok, thanks! To think it was that simple XD

 

Isnt player a string then? How to parse the args to player?

 

Code:

String targetString = args[1].toLowerCase(); //convert string to player
Player target = Bukkit.getPlayer(targetString);

 

You don't need the first line, it might only cause problems.

Nope. 'Bukkit.getPlayer(<name>)' will return the player, where <name> is the players name which is correct since arg[1] (btw: it should be arg[0] if you don't have any other arguments or you'll get some indexoutofrange exceptions) is a string containing the name of the player. Check if the returned player is not null to see if the player, the user typed in, could be found.

 

You don't need to make it lowercase but you need to check args.length if it's got the argument... because it will spit errors if you just type /give.
Then check if the returned player is not null, if it's null then the player doesn't exist.

 

I want to overgive the player to another method, but i need to be player then and args[0] is a string.

I only can send strings to the method but I dont know how to parse it.

And one more question for the onCommand, I renamed it once to onCommandTest but it didnt worked then.
Is it possible to rename the onCommand, or do I need to create new classes?

 

G4meM0ment
It should've been clear by now that getServer().getPlayer() converts player name String to Player object.

 

Sry didnt got this, thanks for the help

But whats with onCommand can I rename it to onCommand1?

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

 

No you can't just rename it because then it won't trigger.
You can divide your code into multiple sections by triggering some methods when some conditions are met in the onCommand() OR you can use getCommand("cmd...").setExecutor(class) to use another class as the callback for the command... but I think that'll confuse you more.
You can always read about these basic stuff in: http://wiki.bukkit.org/Plugin_Tutorial