get a block's durability - getMetaData()?

Hey guys!

Since one year the getData() method is deprecated. Now there's the getMetaData-Method:
http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org/bukkit/metadata/Metadatable.html#getMetadata(java.lang.String)

But where are the possible metadataKeys? I just can't find them anywhere.
Is there any alternative to simply get the durability of a block for specifying wood or wool for example?

Greetings

 

@MrFlieder That's for metadatable, and it's for adding your own custom metadata and getting it

I believe getData is the only way (someone tell me if I'm wrong).

Edit: Now I think, you could use Block#getState#getData which returns a MaterialData

 

Block#getState#getData returns a MaterialData, right.
And #toString returns the item name with its durability in brackets, so it's easy to get the durability that way.

But how is it possible to SET a durability to an object of Block?
MaterialData#setData is also deprecated.

Following code just doesn't work:

Code:

        MaterialData md = block.getState().getData();
        ItemStack is = md.toItemStack();

        is.setDurability(Byte.parseByte(material[1]));
        md = is.getData();

        Block bl = (Block) is;
        block.getState().setData(bl.getState().getData());

When I broadcast is#getState#getData I get LIME WOOL (5).
But when I broadcast block#getState#getData I get WOOL (0).

Why doesn't it work? Something wrong with transmitting the block data. Does anyone have any ideas?

It would be easy if there is a way to get a LIME WOOL block by Material#getMaterial("LIME WOOL"), but that just doesn't work also...

 

#getData#getData()

 

Off topic kinda: What is it with different people using . # and :: interchangably in Java when it's not actually in a block of code?

 

@MrFlieder You need to cast your MaterialData to a org.bukkit.material.Wool (as long as it's a wool what you're using), then you can set getColor and setColor to avoid the deprecation in set and get data (which in my opinion is simpler).


@Techy4198 The # is normally because in the javadocs the browser reads like that, about ::, it's a thing in java 8

 

@Konato_K:

Yeah, but that doesn't work with leaves for example. I would have to implement a method that checks whether the material is leave or wool or something.

So is there no other way?

 

@MrFlieder

 

# is how you refer to a method or class member

:: is also a member reference, but you can use this in code as opposed to documentation

. is the dereference operator, it takes an object (which is the value of a reference), dereferences it, and returns the value.

 

@MrFlieder You'll have to use the proper MaterialData class (I think it's called Leaves), so yeah, using the getData and setData methods it's waaaaayyyyyy more simple.