Solved kick with newline

I'm trying to kick a player with a reason which contains a newline, \n. I'm now using 1.4.2 as a client to test this, I'm sure this was working fine on 1.3.1 but the 1.4.2 client appears to just output \n rather than actually putting a new line. Was this feature removed from the 1.4.2 client?

Also just tested with a 1.3.2 client and exact same thing is happening. I'm 100% sure they added the ability for the client to have new lines in kick messages.

Happening on both the latest RB of craftbukkit (1.3.2) and latest of spigot (1.3.2 but allows 1.4.2 to connect)

target.kickPlayer("You have been kicked for is this\\n on a new line? or do you see the \\ n characters?");

This is what a player sees, https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16892708/IMG_26102012_175650.png

Do I need to do some sort of formatting on the kick message?

 

use 1 slash less

 

You're escaping the slash which = a normal backslash. ferrybig is correct.

 

Does the same thing even if I do it via a command /kick player reason and include \n in the reason. Backslashes have to be escaped as they are a special character, Eclipse doesn't like it if its not escaped inside a string.

 

I don't escape it and it seems to work just fine, try modifying this little snippet to your needs and see if it works.

String motd = "Test Message\nTest Message2";
event.getPlayer().sendMessage(motd.split("\n"));

It's what I use to split messages in my MOTD, so figuratively speaking, it should work just as well in a kick message, providing you use the proper event.

 

No idea why you would use that.... Might as well just use motd = 'Test Message' no?

Anyway you can definitely do it with \n, note the single slash.

 

I still can't get this to work, even the inbuilt craftbukkit kick command still displays the \n rather than forcing it onto a new line.

 

I believe the kick command escapes these characters, perhaps you even get escaped Strings in onCommand method.
Just try using the following code:

Code:

player.kick("Line 1\nLine 2");

 

Ok, appears to work if I hard code that in.

Do hashmaps escape it? I'm using

plugin.banMessages.get("kickReason")

to set the kick message, where banMessages is a HashMap which contains a node from the config.yml

 

A HashMap doesn't change its content in any way.

I think in a YAML you have to escape the slash so it reaches you HashMap correctly. Try writing this in your config:
YourNode: "This is\\na test"
I might be wrong through...

 

Outputs \\n

 

confuserr None the less I'm pretty sure the YAML is the problem here. I'll do some tests...

 

confuserr

Entering \n into the chat will not result in a newline without additional conversion. The '\' character is entered by the user and converted to '\\', resulting in '\\n'.

If you want to be absolutely sure everything is working, just replace the text...

PHP:

banMessage = banMessage.replace("\\n", "\n");

 

Thanks bergerkiller Solved

 

confuserr Writing this in the config:
Test: This is\na test.
didn't work, but writing this:
Test: "This is\na test."
worked.

 

I think you had to use double "quotes"