Setting a chest inventory

I would like to set a chest size at 9, however I don't see any obvious methods of doing this.

How would I set the chest size.
If you don't know the answer to this.. How would I set a new inventory and replace the old chest inventory

 

I don't think you can actually adjust the size of the chest (not positive though). What you can do is associate the chest with an inventory via a HashMap, and then "intercept" it when they open the chest using PlayerInteractEvent and show them the 9 slot inventory instead.

 

You can make a chest any multiple of 9 (not sure how high you can go). No need to use a HashMap if you don't want to.

 

But HOW

 

Bump

 

Inventory chest = player.getServer().createInventory(null, (9), "Chest Title");

player.openInventory(chest);

 

I'm not asking how to open a chest.
I'm asking if its possible to change the chest inventory size.

 

(null, (9), "Chest Title");

Yeh, Just change the 9 to 9 * <rows you want>

 

You create a HashMap<Location, Inventory> where you store your custom Inventories for your chests.
In a PlayerInteractEvent you check if the (right-)clicked block is a chest you want to modifiy (I don't know your criteria).

Something like this:

Code:java

 
private HashMap<Location, Inventory> chestInvs = new HashMap<Location, Inventory>();
 
public void onPlayerInteract(PlayerInteractEvent event)
{
    if (event.hasBlock() && event.getAction() == Action.RIGHT_CLICK_BLOCK && event.getClickedBlock().getType() == Material.CHEST)
    {
        event.setCanceled(true);
 
        Location chestLoc = event.getClickedBlock().getLocation();
        if (!chestInvs.contains(chestLoc)
       {
            Inventory inv = Bukkit.createInventory(event.getPlayer(), 9, InventoryType.CHEST);
           chestInvs.put(chestLoc , inv);
        }
 
        player.openInventory(chestInvs.get(chestLoc));
    }
} 

 

I didn't explain myself clear enough :\

I meant change the chest itself. Not creating a new inventory.
Or creating a new inventory and overriding the old chest.

I know how to catch a player interact event etc to 'fake' its inventory. But I'd prefer to see if I can do this in a few lines of code rather then stretched out.

 

libraryaddict look at my code. That's what's been suggested to you to do.

As far as I know there is no way of actually changing the size of a chest inventory without faking one.