Solved Which item was picked up?

I'm trying to write code to see what item is picked up by a player. This code always shows "DROPPED_ITEM".

Code:java

    @EventHandler
    public void onPlayerEvent(PlayerPickupItemEvent event) {
        EventManager.notify(EventFactory.createPlayerPickup(
                                  event.getPlayer(), event.getItem()));
    }   
 

And the relevant event factory method is like this:

Code:java

    public static Event createPlayerPickup(Player player, Item item) {
        String itemName = String.valueOf(item.getType());
        return new Event(EventType.PlAYER_PICKUP, player.getDisplayName(),
              Calendar.getInstance(), getLocationString(player.getLocation()), itemName);
    }
 

Basically item.getType() is always returning EntityType.DROPPED_ITEM. I expected it to indicate what item it was, a block, a rose, a diamond sword, whatever. How do I get that?

Thanks.

 

dungeontiger That's just getting the string value of an EntityType. Try using

Code:

item.getType().getName();

as that is the actual name.

 

To save you time bukkit made an event for this

Code:java

@EventHandler
    public void pickup(PlayerPickupItemEvent event){
        Player player = event.getPlayer();
        player.sendMessage("" + event.getItem().getItemStack().getType());
    }

 

Thanks guys. That was not the answer but it gave me a clue. I needed to get the item stack from the item and then it worked as expected. Thanks for your help.