Solved Locking horses per player

So what I was trying to do is if a player is on a horse, get that horse and change the horse's metadata to the players' name. Then whenever someone tries to get on the horse, I check if the meta data is theirs, if it isn't theirs they get kicked off. But I am having trouble with setting metadata and getting the value.

Code:java

            Horse horse = (Horse)p.getVehicle();
 
            horse.setMetadata("Locked", new FixedMetadataValue(plugin, p.getName()));
 

This is my code for "Locking" a horse. I'm not very sure about how MetaData works so I might be doing something completely wrong.

But when I try to get the meta data it returns a list of meta data. I'm not sure how I would get the value: p.getName() so I can check if the players' name equals the horses' meta data value.

Any help would be appreciated

 

yupie_123
How about giving the horse a custom name instead of metadata? I've never actually messed with metadata either so I can't help you on that, but I've used custom names on entities before on a spawnandfollow plugin.


EDIT

Something like

Code:java

@EventHandler
   public void onEnter(VehicleEnterEvent event){
 
        if (event.getVehicle() instanceof Horse){
            if (event.getEntered() instanceof Player){
 
                Horse horse = (Horse)event.getVehicle();
                Player player = (Player)event.getEntered();
                horse.setCustomName(player.getName()+"'s horse");
            }
        }
    }

Then you can setup a HashMap<String, String> and store player names with horse names (if you want the player to only have 1 horse) or setup a HashMap<String, List<String>> (if you want each player to have multiple horses). That's up to you really.

 

RAFA_GATO_FOFO Ok I'll try that, it's the .setCustomName method right? And to get it the getCustomName method.

 

yupie_123 Yup, those are the ones.

 

Well I believe you have to cast it to a living entity... So if horse instanceof livingentity, liv.setDISPLAYname(string's horse);
I'm up to such a plugin

 

mine-care
If it's a Horse, it's obviously already a living entity, so that's kinda useless.

 

Just note that people can override horse names with name tags.
yupie_123 A link to the Bukkit Wiki about Metadata, just in case you like to read more about it.

 

fireblast709
He can disable using nametags on Horses. But reading about Metadata will surely be helpful.

 

fireblast709 RAFA_GATO_FOFO Ok, thanks guys, I'll take a look at meta data and I'll keep the nametag issue in mind!

 

Horse implements Tameable. It has "setOwner" and "getOwner" methods built in.

 

Garris0n Yes, thank you, this is much easier, but I'll definately look at MetData aswell, as I think I might need it in the future!

 

Note that MetaData is not persistent between server reloads/restarts.

 

Save it in a config.